Pig Pickin' Time

After visiting Grandma Cameron, we loaded up and headed to my old hometown of Apex for the housewarming of my adoptive parents, Roy and Judy Howell. The Howells were our neighbors growing up and their daughters, Wendy and Shannon, are like sisters to me...literally, Shannon has 8 year old boy/girl twins too! Anyway, we all grew up in the sleepy tobacco community called Green Level. Green Level is now being bought up by housing developments and constrution for future freeways. Our old house, which my mom and dad sold to Wendy when they retired and hit the road, and the Howell's house were recently bought by the state for a new freeway interchange. I visited my old homestead and found a big mound of bricks and dirt where our house used to stand...very sad.
Having said all that, the Howells had to sell their house of 35years as well and bought a new, beautiful home just a few miles away. They decided to have a housewarming Green Level style...a big pick pickin' with a about 100 of their closest friends! Roy and Judy gave an emotional speech about having to leave their home but thankful for God's provision of a new house....we were all in tears. But we had an absolute blast eating and seeing so many of our old childhood friends...and their children!
It was the first pig pickin for the kid but you would have thought they were old pros. I think they ate as much BBQ as I did. (It's good to know some of my southern bones made it into them) They enjoy almost everything we gave them...maybe because it came with the promise of watermelon at the end!
After eating, the kids found the scooters and spent the next hour trying to master them...without much success, I might add, but they sure did have a fun trying!

Cameron eventually ditched the scooter and headed for her favorite activity...swinging!
And to top it all off, the kids got to see their first afternoon thunderstorm...the drops of rain were so big, Timo was trying to catch them! You can tell our kids don't get out in the rain very much! We had such a great day all around. Thanks Roy and Judy...we love you!