Grandpa's 85th Birthday!

We spent the weekend in Everett celebrating Grandpa's 85th birthday. I still can't believe he is 85- he is still so active (works 3 days a week and golfs the other 2!) that he hardly seems his age. It was such a nice little event- just our family...so it wasn't little but it was so great to have everyone together. It seems like those times have dwindled some with everyone being married, having kids and what not. We had a lot of fun just hanging out and visiting, we got a few surprise trick or treaters, ate grandpa's favorite dinner (scalloped potatoes and little pigs!) and then finished off the night playing a rousing game of black jack. What a hoot! Today the whole family went to church with Grandpa and after the service all the grandkids served cake to the congregation. It was an all around nice couple of days.

Taylor telling Grandpa Woof-Woof about the card she made for him.

So cute! Cinderella, The Bunny and Tinkerbell!

From left to right. Jill, Brent, Katie, me, Grandpa, Darci and Emilie

Maddie, Mommy and Taylor

After the church service all the grand kids and their spouses and children went out for breakfast which was also tons of fun. I convinced Dave to go to the outlet malls afterwards just to check some things out (Christmas gifts, etc.). It was beautiful out and although we had two tired girls they were running all around and having a great time. I have to say that I regretted our time their once we had gotten into the car seeming as we were headed out past the casino and a woman didn't stop at the stop sign and then realized it and stopped right in front of Dave in the intersection- which then caused this absolutely crazy driver behind us to go ahead and speed up and slam directly into the side of our car and then had the nerve to drive off at an even higher speed. Thankfully, no one was hurt (it was on Taylor and Dave's side of the car) but Taylor was quite concerned about the whole thing and really got freaked out when we had to call the police and even more worried when they came to help us. Our car on one side now needs some severe fixing but I am just glad that no one was hurt.


We have a super busy week coming up...I have conferences on Thursday and Friday. Thursday I have 21 of them and will be working until 8:30 (ugh!) but on Friday I only have to work until 10:30 so I am excited that the girls and I can hang out on Halloween together! We are also of course waiting for a phone call from Katie about going into Labor. She was with us all weekend and looked amazing! So, who knows when the Little Man will be joining us. Wishing everyone a great week!