It is time to say good-bye (Zai Jian) to another good friend – the Bishops are moving to Michigan. We HAD four families that spent many school days and holidays together – the Bishops, the Jenkins and the Humes. The Humes left in 2011 for Michigan and now the Bishops are following. It is down to Jennifer and I – we will need to find some new friends.

I completely forgot about flowers for our party as I have been so busy with school and de-clutterin my house. Mr. Nie has been driving everyday for the past month with no weekends off. I gave him Friday off since Jim was out of town AND he needed to drive this weekend. In addition, Monday – Wednesday is Dragon Boat Holiday and Mr. Nie will have to drive the holiday, also.

Rain is forecasted for the entire weekend. It down poured rain all day on Friday. Saturday brought more rain, just not as heavy! We moved the party inside and opened up the doors to the covered decks. Most friends that have been to our deck parties all said they didn’t even noticed we had other decks.

Faith kept the party small as she only wanted her “good” friends at the party. Faith knows everyone and the party list could have been very large!

I asked for a family photo to be put into a Chinese silk covered album. Everyone left beautiful messages for them to always cherish.

The party went strong all night with the last guests leaving at 2:30am. We were moving very slow on Sunday!