All Things Anne

Friday was another non-busy day, so guess what we did? Went places! We took Paul and went to the Guitar center, where we dropped off Dad, Paul, Ben, Joe, the twins, and Tess; then the rest of us went to Goodwill, where we saw Aunt Jeanie and Uncle Earl! Aunt Jeanie had said the day before she hoped to see us before we left, and there she did! After Goodwill, we went back to the Guitar Center to see if Dad and the kids were done (our phones were roaming in Oregon so we didn’t use them; Papa gave Dad his phone to use, but there was only one!). They weren’t, but Aunt Laurie’s old boyfriend Leo was there, with his wife, and we talked to him for a little bit, then went to Costco. After that, we picked up the ones at the Guitar Center, then went to Grandpa’s.

After dinner, the boys and John and Paul went bowling, and were gone until like 1 am!

Dad, Beth, and I went to Grandpa’s store to get some parts for installing grab handles near the garage door in the morning, and the boys (including John and Paul) went to look at the train yard. Some older fellas had brought some neat old cars to take pictures of next to the one engine they fired up.

Cool old cars
Cool train pic

Cool train pic
Cool train pic

Thursday was a fairly non-busy day, which was pretty nice!

Early in the morning, the boys went golfing. Ben was his own caddy, Eric caddied for Paul (the golfing expert in the family), John took his own too, and Joe was photographer.

Ben on the left, Eric with Paul’s bag in the middle, and Paul on the right

Ben, with the club he used through the whole thing. An exercise on how not to play golf is as follows:

Stay stiff
Swing like you are playing baseball.

Dance!
Paul’s feet. Note the dirt from a scuff? That’s where Ben whacked.

And then, Paul, showing us how to do it the right way!

Beautiful form
No dancing!
Joe’s self-portrait

Later that day, we went to Grammoo’s and Papa’s, after the boys got home. It was Papa’s birthday, so we had a cake for him, and he opened his presents. Uncle David, Aunt Fran, and Cody came, too.

Joe pogo’ing, Ben in black watching, Jay’s the short one, also watching
Cody, testing out his pogo stick skills…Joe and Ben watching

Papa with the shirt Uncle David’s family gave him, and the chocolates we gave him