Happy Sunday!
We had a nice pre-birthday party for Jeanne since she is celebrating a momentous birthday tomorrow.
We had a lot of her family in and some dear friends also attended. It was a very nice affair.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Birthday Celebration
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Happy Sunday!
Yesterday, we celebrated the seventh birthday of Joshua. Angie and Ben hosted a light lunch and birthday celebration for the grand parents and uncles.
Josh is really into Star Wars and most of his gifts revolved around that theme. He is very good at taking complex Lego® projects designed for 8 – 12-year-old children and completing them in quick fashion.
Gabby consoled herself that this was Josh’s day and so she watched attentively while he opened and awed at each of his presents. 🙂
Austin found other ways to amuse himself with all the balloons. He would pull them down from the ceiling and then let them go. He had a great time doing this while Josh was opening his presents.
Happy Tuesday!
Short post today with only one image. Sunday evening we celebrated Jeanne’s birthday with Angie, Ben and the grand kids. It was a wonderful evening with good food, conversation and celebration.
When we were ready to leave we found this sign had been put in the front yard of their house. As you can see Joshua is very excited. He usually doesn’t like me to take his picture but was a willing subject this time. 🙂
That’s it for today.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Saturday!
I have some post birthday snapshots for you today. I call them snapshots because they were quick, shoot from the hip type shots without much thought to composition or camera settings. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Above Jeanne shows off her big bowl with all the kids foot and hand prints on it and a wonderful tribute to her. She was thrilled to have it. She is also wearing a special birthday hat that Josh spent hours making for her.
We had the kids over for her birthday dinner celebration. Only downside was that Mark couldn’t join us but he will be here this evening.
Jeanne has wanted me to go to the River Center Museum for years. I have to admit that aside from funerals and weddings visiting a museum is right up there on my top 10 list of things I do not want to do. But as a part of her birthday I took her to visit the Titanic Exhibit at the River Center Museum.
It was amazing. If you have an opportunity to go I strongly encourage you to do so. I’ll tell you just one part of the experience. When you “board” the exhibit you are given a boarding pass that has complete information about one of the passengers and what “class” ticket they had.
It helps in understanding the class distinction and as you progress through the exhibit you also progress through time from departure to the impact and eventual sinking. The artifacts from the Titanic are breathtaking. They have been under water 2.5 miles deep with 6,000 pounds of pressure per square inch, for 40 years. They are encased in humidity / temperature controlled display cases and are as I said just breathtaking to view.
When you reach the end of the exhibit you find out if your person was a survivor or perished. Interestingly the most survivors were crew members, first class ticket holders and the ones who fared the worst was of course the third class ticket holders.
Your boarding pass also give you some information about the person, what they did as a profession and why they were on the ship. My person was a prominent businessman who had just concluded a successful business deal and was traveling back to the states first class. He didn’t survive. 😦
We toured the rest of the Museum as well and I have to admit it is a wonderful place that I will revisit from time to time. 🙂
We had a wonderful lunch on the patio at Tony Romes and watched river traffic go by. Then flowers, a balloon and a wonderful dinner completed her day.
A rare image of Austin. I’ve been neglectful about photographing his progress. He is a happy little guy and rarely cries, usually only when he is hungry. He is very social and Josh has adopted the role of his protector making sure he is properly covered when he is laying down. 🙂
So it was a great day for the Queen. I enjoyed sharing it with her.
That’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by the blog. Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Sunday! ~ 271
Fun day yesterday. Jeanne and I had some errands to run and then we stopped by the bird store to pick up some more feed. These guys are starting to get expensive. I may have to take on a second job just to afford them. 🙂
Yesterday afternoon we met at Eagle Point Park for a nice picnic to celebrate Ben’s birthday. Complete with yard games and all kinds of snacks. The only problem I saw was that Ben ended up doing all the grilling for his own birthday party. Yes it was hot and humid at the park but I have devised a way to take my little desk fan and some portable power with me and so I remained relatively comfortable until Angie and I got into a pretty competitive game of bean bag.
That and chasing the kids around the park proved to be a big heat generator. I have a friend that says Summer is God’s punishment for fat people. 🙂
I don’t personally subscribe to that but fat or skinny (and I’ve been both) I have always disliked the heat.
Funny thing as we were sitting talking, Nick (Ben’s younger brother) asked me what kind of birds I have been shooting and I told him as of right now mainly sparrows, finches, black birds, one cardinal and some grackles. Then he asked have you shot any blue jays and I said no, then as if on command a blue jay landed on the fence several feet behind us. He was highly back lite from the river so I didn’t get much of him other than his silhouette but I got a blue jay. 🙂
So we had a nice time at the park with our families and then got home around 9:00 p.m. It was still light out with the summer solstice taking place yesterday. it’s all down hill from now on until next year.
It was great to see the Spirit of Dubuque on the river again. According to the news reports it has been hung up in the Ice Harbor because of the high water levels and hasn’t been able to get out on the river. So apparently they got that solved because the river is still very high.
That’s it for today. I hope to get the grass cut today. My back yard is still pretty wet but we lost one of the dogs in the grass for about an hour last night. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day and be careful. Wear sunscreen.
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