Home Again

Well, we're all back home. Jeff has been at the Tripoli Rocketry Association national launch in Kansas since last week. Lauren and I went to Dallas this weekend for the Lee family reunion. (That's my mom's side of the family.) Now we're all tired and ready for a holiday!

My aunt and uncle on the Alabama coast, and my cousins in Jasper and Houston couldn't make it to the reunion because of hurricane preparations. Everyone else was there. We looked at the old family slides on Saturday, which I haven't done in years.

Saturday night we had quite the dinner discussion about the healthcare mess in the US. My extended family members have political views ranging from my Socialist uncle, to middle-of-the-road me, to my ultra-conservative Republican grandparents. We also have a lot of folks in the healthcare biz, including my aunt who works for Cigna, and another aunt who is a pediatrician. Yeah, it was interesting. Good thing we had a private room in the restaurant. ;)

We all hung out at the grandparents' on Sunday. Solved more of the world's problems. Ate Christine's famous flavored nuts- lemon pistachios were good. I showed everyone my cousin Diane's MySpace pics of her new boyfriend. (Sorry Di!! They reeeeally wanted to see! lol)

Lauren and I stopped by Jeff's parents' for a while Sunday night. It was really nice to see them as well!