When in the course of human events a granddaughter’s birthday occurs, it provides one with the wonderful privilege of celebrating. Actually, it was three of us when you include my wife and our dog.
Monday was Aubrey’s 5th birthday, but yesterday was the first opportunity we had to drive to Oregon and commemorate the observance.
The picture above was the culmination, as she gets ready to blow out her cake candles.
Aubrey got to choose the place to eat (Lucky Fortune Chinese). But that was after she chose to play with her sister and friends in the backyard above-ground swimming pool all afternoon.
Then, in the evening after dinner, it was time to open packages. Her sister Hayley wrapped a gift in a box big enough to hold a large Teddy Bear. But it wasn’t that. After unwrapping tons of paper and two “false alarms” inside the big box, Aubrey finally got to the the gift inside – a wonderful spray candy stick! (left above)
Of course we have to include a pic (right) of Aubrey’s “Princess Dress, glasses and phone.”
After a drive to the store and back in Gregg and Elaine’s beautiful new "green" Prius – and being “wowed” by the technology and the variety of moving graphic displays in the dash that describe in detail what is going on between the gas and electric power sources and the various ways to charge the batteries – we began the drive back home to the Evergreen State just as darkness was setting in.
Although we arrived home a while past midnight, our travel time passed quickly because we had so many great memories of the day. Let’s see.. two weeks from tomorrow granddaughter Talli becomes a teenager. Yikes, the time is passing quickly.
Of course we have to include a pic (right) of Aubrey’s “Princess Dress, glasses and phone.”
After a drive to the store and back in Gregg and Elaine’s beautiful new "green" Prius – and being “wowed” by the technology and the variety of moving graphic displays in the dash that describe in detail what is going on between the gas and electric power sources and the various ways to charge the batteries – we began the drive back home to the Evergreen State just as darkness was setting in.
Although we arrived home a while past midnight, our travel time passed quickly because we had so many great memories of the day. Let’s see.. two weeks from tomorrow granddaughter Talli becomes a teenager. Yikes, the time is passing quickly.
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