Last weekend we had another great annual picnic in the park. This has been a long tradition for our family, starting when Jesse was pretty little. When she got a bit older we would bring her friends along for a dose of Shakespeare. Then she went to college and Mark and I went alone for a while, romantic, but we missed the fun of a group, and so we started inviting our friends. And even though American Stage has stopped doing Shakespeare, much to our chagrin, and this year presented a very silly, less than funny, Pirates of Penzance, the people and the picnic still make for one of the memorable nights of the year.
Abby chats with Alan & Annmarie.
Lorie brought a new guy, Chris, and his four year old twin boys.
Lorie's four year old son, Kaiser, studies the playbill to get ready.
Greg relaxes, Anne reads.
Elizabeth, Keith, Mark.
Abby relaxing behind Doug.
Walt & Sonia.
Marley turned four yesterday. He's the only one of our animals whose birthday we know. We celebrate the birthday of everyone else on October 1st each year. The dogs enjoyed special cupcakes from a doggie bakery while the humans enjoyed a sandwich and beer assortment. Oh, and cannolis that weren't from Little Italy but weren't bad at all.
Lorie and Kaiser had fun in the pool. Daisy did too, she swam so much she can hardly move today. She also killed one of the pool toys Kaiser brought over. Kaiser recently had a birthday too, he is now five and he can really swim!
My own birthday was a couple of months ago and Abby gave me this cool Zen Garden. Kaiser and I had fun putting it all together. 
Jen and Leigh came to celebrate and relax too and brought Gretchen along. Gretchen approved of the cupcakes. She also enjoyed the drive in the back of Jen's brand new gorgeous gray Mini Cooper. And the humans thought it was a pretty fabulous little car too. We all want one.
