Happy Birthday Great Grandma

Last weekend was Justin's grandma Gladys' birthday. She turned 81 this year and we got to spend most of the day with her. We drove up to Moose Jaw for church. She didn't know we were coming and we don't exactly 'sneak' in :) . It was fun to spend the day with her. We went out for lunch afterwards. We decided to take our crew to Bonanza so the noise and chaos wouldn't be noticed. This was the babies' first meal in a restaurant and it went fairly well.

Dylan with his great grandma

Here are the boys sitting in their high chairs at a table in a restaurant for the first time. They seem pretty happy about it:

Dylan

Evan

Liam

The whole crew. That's Justin's mom in the left corner.

Caden was glad to get some ice cream! Yum!

And we got a bonus by seeing Steven and Vicki there. Caden and Devin have become pretty good buddies and were pretty excited to run into each other.

We went back over to Grandma's house to have cake and just spend time together. It was a really nice afternoon and I hope Grandma Gladys enjoyed her special day!

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JJM said…

I know that you like to get some feedback, or at least acknowledgement that someone read your blog when you put the effort into posting. So here you are. Read it. Enjoyed it. Look forward to it. Keep up the good work.

8:33 am

TKP said…

As a kid, we ate out at the Moose Jaw Bonanza about once per week. Even yet, when we got to MJ our kids know that we have to schedule in at least one meal there. So what I am saying is that if that you could not have picked a better place for the boy's first "real restaurant experience". Many a good man has started there! :)

9:42 am

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