My 70th B-day party year has come to an end. What a fun, magnificent year it has been. I had thought I would have one great trip for the year, but the entire 12 months has been filled with trips and events. Daughters, Angie and Debbie, take Mom to CANCUN!
Grandsons Jake, Austin and Ryan
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Feb. 22-25 San Juan Islands....for so many years I've wanted to visit here. Road trip with friends Jo and Nancy...
Jo, Gram G, Nancy....
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April 2-9 Gram G and Angie to San Diego...
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May 15
Busy northern Wisconsin highway...
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May 25....
On to hometown, Indianapolis....500 Mile Parade...
Clifty Falls State Park....southeast Indiana...
Road trip, Kate, Betty, Stephanie
Dinner on the Ohio River....feeling rather small....
Gram G's Indianapolis School of the Dumpling.. Hanging out with niece, Mary, and Neil Armstrong at Purdue University
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Back to northern Wisconsin to help son, Al, through elbow surgery
June 10
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June 15-24 Gram G/Ryan 12 year old trip: We leave central Wisconsin to San Diego
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June 24 Return to Mom and Milwaukee family...
June 28..
Milwaukee Brewers' game with son, Chuck...
June 29...
Back home, leaving Portland airport...
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July 20...Al's family and Gerry's family visiting in Vancouver
Gram G hiking 1 mile up Multnomah Falls
July 25.....
Family to Bend, OR and Three Sisters MT.
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July 27.. Friend Nancy and Gram G visit Mt. Rainier National Park
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Aug. 28 Overnight camp out church camp.....
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Sept. 5 Friend Kahana takes Gram G to
Crater Lake National Park
Crater Lake National Park
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Sept 9...Frodo, Sam and Pippin attend Rose City Comic Con
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Sept. 21 Nancy and Gram G's Sternwheeler Columbia River Cruise
Sept. 21....Great granddaughter, Rosalie, arrives on earth....
4 generations..mom, daughter, grandson, great granddaughter
Uncle Jake
Grandpa Keys
Grandma Deb
Grandpa Keys
Grandma Deb
new mom and dad, Amanda
Zach
Aunties
Micaela and Angie
Micaela and Angie
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Oct. 5-12 Gram G flies to San Diego for Berklee's 1st B-day
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Oct. 15....
First Annual Vancouver Hobbit gathering....
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First Annual Vancouver Hobbit gathering....
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Nov. 13 Autumn Reflections piano concert at Creekside
A little "Man in Black" wanna be...
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Bill, Amanda, Berklee come to visit in Vancouver
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"Elf" 4 main food groups dinner party...candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup...on spaghetti
Ice cream cones and snowballs...
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Jan. 28- Feb 3, 2017 Gram G to San Diego/ Joshua Tree
Indian Wells, CA
Palm SpringsJoshua Tree National Park....
Son Gerry takes mom whale watching....
It's been a
WHALE of a YEAR!!
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Feb. 20...
First born, Debbie's,
50th B-day...
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Feb 23.....Red Hat Mamas Outing in Portland.....
Last picture at age 70
Feb. 24, 2017....End of Gram G's 70th B-day party year!!
This has been a good "70th B-day party year" day in the life of Grandma G.
"Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us." (Isaiah 26:12)
