Friday, February 24, 2017

70th B-day Party Year!!.....Post Views...29,495



     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. 

 Feb. 4-9, 2016 
Daughters, Angie and Debbie, take Mom to CANCUN!







Grandsons Jake, Austin and Ryan
went along...




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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....
Feb. 24...I'm 70 today?!?   Celebrate!!!....

                                                                                                          



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April 2-9   Gram G and Angie to San Diego...
















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May 15
Start of 6 Weeks Midwest Family Tour....


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

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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

new mom and dad, Amanda
Zach
Aunties
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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Nov. 13    Autumn Reflections piano concert at Creekside


A little "Man in Black" wanna be...






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Dec. 1-6
Bill, Amanda, Berklee come to visit in Vancouver
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 New Year's weekend....San Diego visitors...


"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 Springs




Joshua 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)

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