It's the Fourth! It's the Fourth!





And Happy Birthday, Joe!





Joe is somewhere between 34 (Gail's age) and 38 (John's age), but I don't know where! So I'm gonna say Joe just turned 3(cough, cough muffled talk). Always a good answer!





Lots of people showed up, including:





Paulie Lynch!





Theresa Lynch!





Stephanie Lynch!


Oh, yeah, and their parents were there, too.


Mr Cooper Levy!




The Mighty Feehans:





The Paladinos:



who grew soooo much this year! That Christopher was brand-y new last year!
And Bebe Kayleigh:

Who is a little bit of a ham, I must say! You know I like a kid who likes the camera. And she thought Christine Solimeno was the bees knees. Shannon bored her to sleep by telling her about our book distributors...which is boring talk to grownups, too.
This is what I will tell you:
We ate great food. We had nice conversation. We went in the pool!
James finally woke up and
dipped his feet in the pool with Mama:


then hung out with Christine!
And we had two token Katunas:

Bobby, finding "his light".
And

Ed grew another head!

Though I usually end a blog post with a picture of Ed, I must say, no summer buffet is complete without a picture of:

Rich Meagher, International Man of Mystery!