A Great Family Day and Cali's 6th Birthday!

We left home for church this morning at 8:30 and never got back until 8:15.  A long day away from home, but a wonderful day with our family!  At church  we saw Jamie's family, Sue and Dan, Matt and Nicole, and friends from our life group and got to sing happy birthday to Cali.  Can hardly believe she is 6 today! After church we went to have lunch at Bob and Lanie's house.  It was the 1st we saw their family since we returned and it was so good to see them.  Lanie made a delicious lunch and we had so much fun playing with Samantha and Katelyn. We also had nice talks with Lanie and Bob.  What a great family!

Katelyn with their relatively new cat, Chester.  They got Chester
in January, so this is the 1st time we met him!  He's a big boy!

Katelyn likes to play Candyland and Grandma
loves to play games!

Mommy and Katelyn setting up the game!

Each year on Samantha and Katelyn's birthday I add photo pages
to their albums with the highlights of their year.  I create the pages
on a program on my computer and then have the 12 x 12 pages
developed at Costco.  I am so pleased with them!  Samantha
and I are checking out the 8 pages!

Samantha wanted to try to fly today, so she
had her Mommy "tape wings" on her arms.
We told her to only go up 3 steps to try to
fly, just in case it didn't work!

She discovered quickly that paper wings just don't work!

The Happy Family!

We left at 5:15 and drove to Jamie and Dane's to have a little get together for Cali's birthday and enjoy an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.  Sue and Dan and their neighbors, Matt, Nicole, and Ethan were there too.  Another fun time. We enjoyed the cake, singing to Cali, and watching her blow out the candle.  We left there at 8 and went back home.

Bria will be 8 in 1 1/2 weeks!

Cali, the birthday girl!

Party time in Dane ad Jamie's basement!

Cali can do this "special thing" with her
eyebrow!

The Happy Birthday Girl! 

This was a very special day sharing time with both of our daughters families.  We are so blessed!

Here are some photos Lanie and Jamie had taken of our granddaughters in January!  Hard to imagine that when you have 4 young "ladies" together they can all smile so well for a "picture shoot".

Okay, okay!  I may be prejudice, but
aren't they adorable!

Katelyn and Samantha!

Bria and Cali

You gotta Love them!!!!!