o8.22.o6...Happy Birthday, Dad

This boy is 85 years young today!
Happy Birthday, Dad!

o8.20.o6...Warning: Jacinda is 2

Headed to Lowell again for the 5th weekend in a row...this time for Jacinda's birthday party. No terrible 2's yet, just a cutie in a party dress with princess slippers and cowgirl boots and lots of Dora, Dora, Dora!


The "farm train" was a hit with the kids...


that's both LITTLE and BIG kids...


Emma "easy rider" Vandercar also got her first taste of the open road with a motorcycle ride sitting between Nana and Papa...













Someone forgot to pack extra shoes for the weekend......and it cracked me up!
The hip birthday girl can actually pull that look off...with her styling purple Dora cowgirl boots.And we ended the day by remembering Junior and Janet's anniversary. They were married 40 years ago, today:

It was a privilege to be able to honor those memories with a video. I only wish they could have watched it together. But I trust there were a few smiles and teary eyes in heaven just like we had here on earth. God bless you Janet and Junior.

Directions to here: Put the car on auto pilot...it should know the way by now...reflect on August 18 and holding a certain baby when she was less than an hour old...marvel at the way time flies...and hug your big sister extra close

o8.13.o6...Hog roast with the Vandercar birthday kids

Went north again to celebrate the birthdays of these three kids:Luke
Emma
Evia

I'll let you guess, but one of those water babies is Vintage.
And here's my gift to the girls...didn't need to sign the card...if it's Bobble-like, I'm sure they know which crazy great aunt it's from:



Thanks Tammy, for letting me steal your pics!

Directions to here: get in the trailblazer with sister susie and let her make all those winding turns to the backyard with the miss piggy cart, the boy with the rosie cheeks and the 3 cute girls who live with him

o8.o5.o6......Jeremy's 30!

Taken Aunt Nancy with her trusty 110 instamatic with flip flash.
(by the way I won a Grange photo contest with this picture, uh, uh)!

The plan was to be in Columbus Ohio this week to help open a new store...but the grand opening got cancelled due to a minor issue a of building/remodeling permit...as in get one BEFORE you remodel...or the inspectors will not be happy. Anyway, I was most looking forward to seeing sites like this on Route 40 and re-exploring parts of the route I bypassed before...but I worked in Indy instead...where it was the same old...same old.

Jeremy's 30th party was a hit. With a surprise visitor...that I only have video of...that's okay...you wouldn't believe your eyes if you saw her...Jeremy sure didn't. Picture, maybe later.



Happy Birthday Jerm!

Directions to here: take 1/2 vacation day to 86th street to 465 to 865 to 65 to Rt. 2 to Range Line Road to the birthday boy standing near the Keg