Grandmas 89th Birthday

On Saturday we got to spend the evening with all my aunts and uncles and cousins and their kids from my dads side of the family and my mom and John and of course my Grandma. It was Grandmas 89th b-day. She likes to spend her birthday at Prestwich Farms at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. We all meet up there in a banquet room and eat a nice meal. I had the halibut fish and chips, Kurtis had chicken strips, Steph had Spaghetti, Sam had linguine, and Mike just randomly pointed her finger to an item on the menu and was hoping is was good. She ended up with chicken Parmesans. Dinner was really good. We sent Steph around with the camera to take all the shots. She was having fun!

SURPRISE GRANDMA!Afterwards we always have birthday brownies baked by My cousin Michelle. There is some secret ingredient in their that makes them yummy! Cassie and Calvin swear the secret ingredient is ex lax. (Inside joke....well maybe not much of a joke to them LOL). When the kids are done they all take off out to the back of the restaurant and have a game of football. It's hard to get them to leave. We are so blessed to still have grandma around. She is doing so well. What a trooper she is and such a neat lady. After my grandpas funeral she broke her hip, then after that was healed, she fell down raking leaves and broke the other hip. She doesn't get around as much as she used to but she is doing well and we love her! After dinner we took the kids up to see the Thistle Dam. They didn't think to much of it, but I remember back in the day when Thistle Dam was created by a mud slide and is was a big deal. I remember going up quite often and watching the progress the mud slide was making and the damage it was creating. I wanted the lake to remain. I thought that would be an awesome spot for a lake, but my vote didn't count darnit, and they drained the lake to reveal all the flooded and destroyed homes and rebuilt the highway and tunneld through the dam to create the railroad path. Wow that has been many years ago. What an awesome sight mother nature is. We then continued on home that way by going through Birds Eye and into Sanpete County then down through the canyon and home. It was a longer route, but was nice to see a different change of scenery on the way home. Sometimes the quick way home is not always the best way home! But any-hooo--- happy B-day Grandma!