Dienner Reunion.

Reunion number two for the summer was with Dienners!  This is my mom's side of the family!  We all gathered at my parents farm for a family reunion and we had a wonderful time!

My nieces painted faces!

Games were played!

My dad made chicken BBQ and we ate in their barn!

Great grandchildren are starting to show up family reunions!

It was on Father's Day and we ate well!

My parents had two pickleball courts set up out back and a wiffleball game was happening in the meadow.

A soft serve ice cream machine with toppings and brewed tea and meadow tea are always expected at these gatherings!

Spike ball played by the teens and a bouncy house for the littles!!!!

Mom got a clown outfit that Austin put on during the candy scramble.

Cutest little guy!!!!!

And here are my mom's siblings!!!!  As they decided how to stand, the two youngest came up asking where Mommy D's favorites should stand!!!! 🤣

All the Aunts and Uncles were able to come!  All of these people are special to me and we did miss Daudy and Mommy D on this special day!!!!

I grew up living next to some of these.  Some have children exactly my age that I still see often!  Almost all these men had open heart surgery in the past or some kind of heart procedure.  One Aunt had a stroke.  It's a blessing to have them all gather together and have fun!

We were coming to the end of the day when Matthew and Daisy showed up.  They had just come from the pets emergency because their dog Ridley took off after a ball while being tied on a leash and she paralyzed her two back legs.  This was of course devastating to us and especially for Matt and Daisy.  I could tell they were barely keeping it together.  They love Ridley and she's still so young.  Ridley loved them!  They had to decide to put her down the next day because caring for a paralyzed dog is just too much.  She was not well.  Sometimes we don't know why things like this happen.  We try to remember that it's just a pet but it's also a pet they loved and entertained and wanted for many years!!!!

It was dark before we said goodbye to family and friends.  I love the Dienner family!