Happy Birthday Gma

Happiest of birthdays Mom!

A mini outing to McPherson for lunch and to check out a couple stores...

then supper, games and fort making at our house to celebrate with the family :) 

Happy Birthday.....and many more!

Family Celebrates 60

We had a special celebration for Mom's birthday the following weekend after her actual day.

Carissa and Eliana flew in for it on Wednesday. Noah dropped everything when he first saw Eliana, and said, "Can I hold her?" He didn't even give me a chance to love on her first...he loves his baby cousin. She has grown so much since Christmas!

And on Thursday, Carissa provided a birthday meal, using the birthday gift she gave...a raclette grill. It was very tasty! Special cheeses melted and poured over veggies, chicken, shrimp, bread...oooh, so good.

Friday, we left for The Barn, a bed & breakfast near Topeka in the early afternoon. We left in two groups..so the ones that had work/school could come a couple hours later. This bed & breakfast is quite large. There were 20 rooms, all various sizes and I think 5 different levels, including a basement. There were several different sitting areas and a ping pong/TV area in the basement and a huge hit was the indoor pool and hot tub. It was very accommodating, and we were the only ones there for the majority of the time. 

After breakfast on Saturday, we all went to Lawrence just to look around a bit. We went to a large fabric store and a three story toy store...I think Mom was equally excited about both (probably even more about the toy store!). It was a beautiful day. We ate lunch at Minsky's, a pizza place..GOOD pizza.

More pool and hot tub time. And of course we played games in the evening.

In the evening, they had some different lights in the hot tub area. That was a FULL hot tub.

We played Nickels...and Brent/Dad/Mitch/Alyssa played Rook.

 We had some sleepy passengers on the way home, Sunday.

Sunday evening, we got a few more snuggles in with Eliana and Carissa (maybe not snuggling, but playing games with her).

 We all love you Mom.

Hopefully you had wonderful 60th birthday celebrations!

celebrate s-i-x-t-y years

A special lady...my mother, turns 60 this year.

She's not so big on making a fuss about her or her age..but we did anyway...because we are her family and we love her.

We had a meal at Waters Edge on Friday evening.

Her siblings were all able to come, as well as a couple of their spouses and Tam (her niece). We maybe sang "Happy Birthday" a few times.

On Saturday evening, we celebrated with family and a few of her close friends at Kansas Electric.

We had a meal catered by Carriage Crossing, a few trivia questions about Mom, a couple songs from the grandkids (even the ones from VA skyped in), and a slideshow. 

Cupcakes (chocolate/coconut, chocolate/mocha and carrot) and pies (dutch apple, chocolate cream, coconut cream, and peach) with ice cream for dessert. 

Carissa wrote a couple songs..they all did so well at singing.

 I like this picture of Mom watching the slideshow (it was complete with various songs and movie clips of her) Carissa put together.

Oh, and we sung "Happy Birthday" just a few more times throughout the evening.

Sunday noon, Mom made a big meal for everyone.

The five siblings

The weather was so beautiful. So we went to the arboretum for a walk.

This look from Noah is just too him. Oh, he has such a variety of faces.

Ben stayed home with Jonah and Christian, as Jonah was napping, and Christian had a fever (he's had one off and on for several days now).

60 years to celebrate you, Mom.

I love you.

Hope you had a good time being loved and celebrated!

Happy Birthday.