One surprise was a lovely hotel connected to the Hartford airport, that let us use their business center and print for free without being guests. Without them, we wouldn’t have been able to use the bus tickets we had bought and would have had to buy new ones at the station, for a much later bus! Thank you Sheraton, you rock our world!

A family (and friends) reunion to celebrate the life of our amazing Doris Brown, my grandmother-extraordinaire.

This is my grandparent’s beautiful yard and the site of the celebration.  The flower gardens are “Doris’ Memory Garden”.

This is my handsome grandfather.

And his brother, my Uncle Dick.

My cute pops!

So many good friends and family came out for the day!  From near and far.  It was a great day and I know Grandma loved every minute of it.  Here are buckets of pictures, we’ll start off with Wayne saying something smart, I’m sure. 

Tina, Mark and Liam… be forewarned… there are a lot of Liam pics in here! And I only put about 2% of the ones I took of him.  And of course all of his pics were super cute!  He’s just started taking steps on his own.

Sad Liam. (double earache and getting his 12th tooth!)

Less sad Liam.

He can see himself in the lens and is now starting to make faces at himself.

Happy Liam.

Loving the croquet set.

Liam had some hard times this day.

But he did love to see himself in the lens.

Happy Liam again!  Aw, Happy Thornton boys!

BFF:

(Josh is very certain there are 10.   Becky doesn’t believe him.)

These are baby tiny kittens that my folks rescued from under the highway after the party.

And then a few last shots before the red-eye flight home to Boston:

Me and Ma.

Me and Grandpa.

The Three of Us.

Where we finally met each other's husbands.