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Time for the annual janjetina roast with the Pavich family!  Our annual family reunion was in Columbus, Ohio this year over the 4th of July weekend!  This year was fun, there were lots of us there (still lots of us missing, we missed you!!)  Next year it's going to be on Uncle Mike's farm!  We can't wait for that!  Mama hasn't been to the farm since she was a little girl, but she tells us it's a real farm where the roosters will wake you up and the chickens will chase you if you tease them.  We are really excited for that!
We have to say the cousins did a stand up job with the lamb this year - it was EXCELLENT!!!  Of course, we didn't try it yet (as picky as I am and as little as Anna is, we just weren't that interested) but as you might notice in the picture above, it was all the rest of the kids crowding the lamb for the best parts while Cousin Nick and Cousin Mark were carving it!  Mama thought it not appropriate to elbow an 8 year old out of the way but she was getting all the good stuff!  Mama wondered what it might be like to an outsider to hear an 8 year old and a 10 year old fight over who gets to "eat the skin".  Since she grew up doing lamb roasts it was funny to her, weird to Daddy.  Mommy hopes that when we grow up that we will come to love the tradition as much as she does, and Mommy really hopes we can keep it going.  Unfortunately, no matter what, Daddy just doesn't like lamb.  But Mommy does, Mommy loves it, and Mommy loves the roasts, and the family getting together and listening to polka music (and accordian when Uncle Steve is there), and singing, and dancing, and drinking, and talking about cars and motorcycles and life and everything else.  Thanks Nick and Amy for hosting the roast again, and thank you to Uncle Mike for putting it all together and hvala vam Pavich family.
Volim te,
Lilly and Anna