Can I just tell you what fun it is to visit old friends....especially when they are these ones??? I just spent 4 glorious days with my old "roomie", Kim, her husband Tom and their girls Emily and Olivia. The last time I'd seen these guys, Olivia was just a month old and Emily around 2. My have they grown, and Aunt Karen has grown especially fond of them!! Good genes don't fall far from the tree, and these guys are no different. Talk about making you laugh! Emily is a cheer fiend and most flexible than a straw! Olivia plans on giving Kim and Tom a run for their money when she becomes a teen. Both are blond hair, blue eyed cuties!!

Kim and I got to spend some awesome QT together at dinner and with friends over our own lobster feed in the backyard. We also got to really break in their new hot tub which we sat in while the meteor shower took place. One night, we were so pruned on our fingertips, we thought we'd lost feeling int them permanently! The weather was a lucious 75 degrees and cool enough at night to sleep with the windows open. HEAVEN!

As for Tom, well, he was "delayed" getting back from a training class in St. Louis due to a "telephone malfunction". Good one, Tom. Glad you got to see me!!

I was so sad to leave my friends, but I've decided that we won't wait so long to get together again! We're already planning the next gathering. Cheers to old friends...I love you guys and miss you tons!!

Karen :)