Time with Sammy and Bianca; class reunion

On Saturday I met Dick at his shop at 12 noon and we headed first of all to Sam and Jenn's.  Two weeks is a long time in a tiny baby's life, because they grow so fast at that stage!  Sam was giving her a bottle when we arrived, but he kindly handed her over to me.  Sammy woke up from his nap shortly afterward, and he came and sat beside me.  One of the first things he said was,  "Mahna, I want to get in your car and go to your house."  Whew, that boy knows how to melt a grandma's heart!!

Here's Jenn with Bianca.  She already looks so much bigger in Jenn's arms at 6 weeks of age.

Sammy LOVES the pumpkins they got recently.  He was putting the small one on top of the larger one as he sang, "Do you want to build a snowman?"

He was also having the greatest time rearranging the pumpkins in the flower bed.

Bianca's favorite person is Sammy.  He sings to her, of course!

Here I got a very short clip of him singing "Let It Go" to her.  Melt my heart some more!

And now some Bianca close-ups.  I'm sure if I had had time to stay longer I would have coaxed a smile out her of.  She was so close!

Dick and I got ourselves ready for my class reunion, and all too soon we needed to leave. 

It was a fun evening.  I saw people I had not seen for a very long time.  There was a door prize for the person that came the farthest.  I, by no means, qualified for that.  One classmate came from California!  I also know that another one, the only one I have for a Facebook friend, came from Minnesota - Betty (Moyer) Wirt.  She and I have known each other our entire lives.  We were neighbors, Sunday School classmates, elementary school classmates, and carpool mates to Lancaster Mennonite. 

We had a good meal, we told funny stories from our high school days at Lancaster Mennonite, we remembered the eight classmates who are no longer living, we took a group picture, and we ended the evening singing "606" -  Festival Doxology.  It was amazing!!  We might be in our sixties now, but we haven't lost an ounce of our musical ability and expertise!  

I'm sure I would have had time to reconnect with more people if we had hung around longer, but we had a two-and-one-half hour drive home.  

Here's our group picture that Dick took with my camera.  Hopefully the official one was situated to get everyone's face.  Some are hidden behind others on my photo.

This is us on graduation day in 1969!  I think this might be just half the group, and I can't find the picture of the other half.  I'm not even on this one. 

One of the ridiculous memories that I shared was this:  

A choir that I sang with, Choraleers, was leaving on a five-day tour the very afternoon of graduation (grad was on a Friday morning).  In fact, we had a program that evening in Belleville, PA, not too far from State College!  I had decided that I wanted to have tan legs for the tour, and I don't know if there was anything like self-tanning lotion or spray back then.  My sister Mary Ellen had a sun lamp to treat her acne, and I had heard that sun lamps can also be used for tanning.  So I decided the day before graduation to tan my legs.  First I did the front of my legs, then I laid on my stomach to do the back of my legs.  And, yes, I fell asleep!!!  And you know the rest of the sad story - I had BURNED the back of my legs, especially the very tender skin at the back of my knees.  

An absolute part of our garb for graduation was pantihose, and our graduation service was long and hot in an outdoor tent, and we stood up and sat down over and over and over and over again.  Just as I would be almost forgetting how much pain I had, we would need to change positions, and it was absolute agony.  

And that is about the only thing I remember from my grad, except the speaker saying,  "In conclusion" and then going through several more pages of his notes.  I was counting!  

Have a good week!