Celebrating Oma's Birthday

Oma turned 93 this month and we had fun celebrating!  We hosted a big family dinner Sunday evening and we have more room in the back yard than we do in the house so we hoped to do most of the entertaining outside.  Therefore, we spent the bulk of our day on Saturday doing yardwork: mowing, trimming, and lots and lots of weeding.

We quickly took showers and ate dinner, then as a reward for all of the work we'd done during the hottest part of the day, we drove to a new place for some yummy treats.  Brooker's Founding Flavors is a family-run, colonial-themed, homemade ice cream shop and we enjoyed reading the names and descriptions of the offerings almost as much as we did eating.  Almost.

From there we drove straight to Salt Lake to pick up Oma and Grammy for a wonderful birthday outing: seeing the new production of Rogers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella."  We loved it!  The music was essentially the same but the script has been changed a fair amount and it was all great.

The highlight of Sunday's big birthday dinner was a game of balloon volleyball, which Oma likes to play at her assisted-living facility with her friends.  Everyone had a lot of fun with it, and I only wish we'd had more time to play.  A game of baseball also broke out in the back yard, which ended with Jack getting whacked in the forehead with a plastic (thankfully) bat because he was standing too close to Cat when she was batting.  Miraculously, Jack's goose egg was mostly gone the next day.

 

I loved getting to celebrate this wonderful woman and spend so much time with family!