And I'm still trying to keep track of everything. I think I left off with my Mike's Birthday. Here's aunt Patti with Granny (this was at Mike's Birthday party)
And here's Shadow, Eric, Jake, Evan and Vivian.
I think this was... Dunno, sometime during the week a couple weeks ago...
Now, they left like a week and a half ago. The day before the Nonns came over.
Here's a pic from that Friday night at a nice place to eat in the middle of nowhere.
This particular night Karen had brought a batch of little Dora stickers. Vivi was running around the table, getting one and then placing it somewhere. You'll notice one on her head, and everyone in the room had at least a couple. Towards the end my cell phone recieved about the last 50 or so of them. (:
We celebrated Granny's 85th birthday this past Sunday (though her Birthday isn't until the 23rd). We had a big party at her church.
Here she is with Joe and Mary.
Birthday cake! (:
Look, I'm at the party! (:
And all the way on the left of this one are Joe and Mary's kids Karolyn and Valerie(If I'm anywere close on spelling). They seemed quite nice. I don't think I've ever met them before(I have such a hard time keeping track of the extended family). I was surprised and somewhat... happy I guess is the word... to see that they almost seemed as lost at the party as I. It seems every other one of these family or otherwise get-togethers that people don't know each other but are always out talking and mingling, when I tend to just hope to find a couple people I know to sit with. They seemed to be hiding out a bit and just hanging out with us. It seemed like a refreshing change to me. (: Valerie is from Baltimore-ish I believe and the other is from the Twin cities area. They left... Sunday night.
I just noticed that Marv is a sly one and has so far eluded the camera. Maybe tonight...
And here I am that night! And there's Mary just behind me. We never really got a good picture of her either I guess.
Since then? Umm, yesterday I did some work at work, then tried to get the lawn roller from a barn on the farm over to our house to fix a couple ruts someone left with a truck. Well... Dad loaded the roller into Mike's truck with a tractor. It seemed pretty secure by itself. Well, Mike's truck is... "interesting" shall we say... It's generally always heading uphill. It also generally wants to go off to the right unless you apply the brakes, in which case it aims for the left. Straight isn't all that much of an option. And I was being gentle, but at one little incline I apparently hit the gas just a hair too much and BANG, BANG I looked back and the roller had apparently busted through the tailgate and dropped on the road. Bummer. I got it and the truck out of the road and got one end of the roller on the truck. Wasn't so sure I was going to be able to get the rest of it up there. Luckily after a few minutes the neighbor came out and lent a hand and we got it in there sideways. Made it home, got it unloaded and was turning around to go back when it started sputtering. Didn't wanna run. I decided to dump a couple gallons in and it started running again. Apparently the gas gauge is a bit optimistic since it wasn't quite down to an 1/8th yet...
Then I had lunch with some of the family, came home and watched 3:10 to Yuma. That was actually a pretty good Western. (I watched the modern remake I guess). Then headed out and tried to roll the driveway and lawn. I *think* it's better than it was. I mostly got rid of the truck ruts,but the ground kinda changed consistency towards the end I think I made about 2 or 3 passes more than I should have. Not helped by the fact that the 4-wheeler tires are just a hair wider than the roller...
And then Sara came home and we headed over to Mom's for something of a picnic dinner(though inside) with everyone.
And I think that's about it for now... I think tonight is the final dinner with the Wisconsonians, and then Saturday we're off to DC for the weekend!
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