4th of July, Company, Russell's birthday and a new tiny trailer! :)

Our cute little firecracker on her first 4th of July! 💕

Good morning.  Going to make this as brief as possible and probably too many pictures. We had a fabulous 4th of July weekend. Mason, Chloe, Kody, Jordyn,Diane and Jesse came out starting Thursday. So you know that meant lots of eating and partying. Too much fun! Karen barbecued hamburgers Thursday evening, so that saved me cooking! LOL. 

Friday had us enjoying the outdoor kitchen and the kids went for ride with the can am and one quad. They spent some time in the stock tank too. Enchiladas and coleslaw for dinner that night. 

Saturday being the 4th we went over to John and Karen's. The Band Next Door played and a mexican food truck was there too. Another great time! 

Ken made me this coffee table when I was pregnant with
Eric 52 years ago. Kids always love taking it apart and 
attempting to put it back together. 

Two beauties enjoying the stock tank. Chloe and Jordyn,
the boys went in a little later 

Our special friends, Doug and Michelle brought two 4th 
of July glasses when they were here. I had to try one LOL. 

Jesse and Diane 😁

Chloe practicing some dance steps 

Not a good picture but Mason and Karen enjoying the music

Much better picture 💖

Kody, Jordyn and Wesson. Such a sweet couple and pup!

Mason and Chloe 

Sunday everyone got ready to leave after breakfast. Before you know it we were alone again. 

On Tuesday Ken had an eye appointment to check on his glaucoma. With the added drops he's been using his eye pressure was down to 15 and 16 for the win! This is from 28 6 months ago. 

We went shoe shopping and then that led us to this: 

Coleman 13 R. We picked it up today. Pictures next blog.
Now to make it our own! :) 

Why you ask? Well, we've been talking about how much we loved our cabover camper when we had it on the truck. Well, we don't want a new truck and we don't want to pay $30,000 plus for a cabover. Even the pop ups are 30,000. So how about a small pull behind for those trips we don't to take the Mansion and with the price of fuel...we felt justified in looking anyway. haha. We all know what happens when you look. Tuesday morning this little cutie will be coming home to us. 

Saturday morning we left home and headed for Cool, CA. A special little girl was going to be at Eric and Christinas for a visit. So great grandma and great grandpa headed that way. 

She loved watching the fights with her Grandpa Eric 💗

After leaving there we headed to Russell and Lori's place. Russell, our baby, turned 48 on Monday the 13th. WOW! 

Had a great time Saturday night as they had friends over and made homemade pizza. It was close to 100 degrees outside but he got it done. We were able to enjoy the evening outside after the sun went down and it  cooled down to a bearable temp. 

Sunday was a party at The One Spot in Rocklin, CA. Do it Doggie Style food vendor was there an I have to say the hot dogs were incredible and good prices! Too much fun was had by me LOL and a few others. Every time I turned around someone was buying me a glass of wine. Needless to say I turned in early. Not so much for Russell, Lori and Ken. 😂

First time I've seen Aaron have a "legal" beer. Hard to believe 
our youngest grand babies are 21!

Eric and Christina 

Aaron talking with Veronica 

Holly, Chloe, Mason, Lori, Seth and Aaron. 

Russell rolling out the pizza dough in the house. He cooked
outside and it was HOT!

Not a fan of Budweiser anymore but they do support 
Folds of Honor. They support educational scholarships to spouses
and children of fallen and disabled military members and first
responders. 

Monday morning, well closer to 1100 we all went to brunch in Rocklin, CA. 

It was Russell's 48th birthday so we had to celebrate and say good bye. Christina was actually meeting friends there, so we got a large table for them and us. It was about a 2 hour brunch so we got out of there close to 1300. 

Russell and Lori are taking Aaron's stuff to Santa Barbara today for his last year at UCSB. Poor kid is sharing an apartment right on the beach! 

Christina and her mimosa flight. My Morning Margarita. 
YUM! 

There's the Birthday Boy! Happy 48th Russell!

4th of July. Ken and Russell. Ken wasn't drinking the whiskey
but Jesse was! 💕

Jacob is out to sea with training, but he had some time in 
Hawaii and Allis was able to join him for some R and R.
 

Russell and Lori were able to go to San Diego and spend some time with their
grand puppy while she was gone. Lori got up from her seat and Burt 
decided it was his 😂😂

It's been a great couple of weeks! Too much too quickly! Headed out with the new trailer on Thursday, we'll be home on Sunday. We're headed to Plymouth, CA where we were a few months ago. John and Karen are there. Hoping Erin (Adam's fiancee can make it by) Adam's on a fire so he's not home. It'll be a quick pack up tomorrow. 

Happy Hour with my sweetie! 🍺🍷Have a great evening! 

Going back a bit. Ben and Kaitlyn's wedding, Meeting Miss Avery in person and a few days with my sister's family at the ocean. Aaron's home!

 Saturday June 13th we left home and headed to CA once again. We had a wedding to attend. Ben (Adam's cousin) and Kaitlyn were tying the knot at the Blue Goose Events Center in Loomis, CA. Ben used to spend time with us way back when he and Adam were small. We took him to the ocean camping and other things. 

We got to Russell's place and got ourselves changed and headed to the wedding. I would call the setting country elegance. Just beautiful. They got married in a lovely, short ceremony then let the reception begin! It was fun and while they got pictures taken there was an open bar and appetizers. 

I love this picture of them. You can't see how beautiful Kaitlyn
is but you can sure see the love in Ben's eyes. 💕

Later they did the newlywed dance, father daughter dance and then they had all the married couples come out to the dance floor. They then started get rid of couples by asking who's been married less than a year, 5years and so on. They finally got to 50 and there was only one other couple and us. Well, we beat them with 53 to their 51. 

We got a very nice prize too! 

There was a lovely bottle of Chardonnay too, but somehow
that got drank 😁

Then dinner was served buffet style. Mexican, our favorite. After some more dancing and visiting we left around 2030. 

Adam and his fiancee Erin 💕 Looks like September 2027
for them! 

Adam and his grandma Linda (Cheryl's mom). He hasn't
seen her in a few years. Love this pic! 

Once we got to Russell's another party was going on LOL. Friends were over and we enjoyed some more Happy Hour. 

Sunday, we had plans with everyone to meet at Old Town Pizza in Auburn at 1100. The star of the show of course, was Avery. She was just a little over a month old and cute as can be. Great Grandma got to hold her for a long time! 💖

Just so darn beautiful! 

4 generation picture. Great Grandpa Ken, Grandpa Eric, 
Dad Seth, and baby Avery. Hoping to get 5 generation picture
with Ken's mom at the end of July 💖

There was about 14 of us there. Jesse, John and Andrea joined us too. I love when we can all get together like that! 

Thursday the 18th I headed back over to Russell's house to spend the night. They took me out to dinner at Round Table Club House in Citrus Heights. A cool place and everyone knows each other there on Thursday nights. We enjoyed pizza and a few drinks and then headed over to The One Spot in Roseville. It was Andrea's birthday and she was celebrating after jumping out of a perfectly good airplane! We stayed longer than we should have, but....

Friday morning I headed over to my sister Linda's house. We were going to the ocean on her yearly trip she does. Met up with Dusty and family and we headed to Sebastopol for a later lunch. We had been to this place a few years ago. Delicious food and way too much. 

Then to the house she rented for the weekend. After that the fun began (well it really began earlier). The house was beautiful, called Knot a Care. The weekend consisted of food, drink, fun, kids, family and friends. Linda always does a beautiful job of taking care of everyone on this trip. I usually do the cooking for breakfast, eating out lunch, then great dinners at the house. It always goes way too fast. Thank you Linda and Bobby. 💖

Cassidy the ping pong Queen! 

Uncle Jesse losing to her 😂

This was cute. All the boys interested in Owen's new 
baseball cards. He's got tons!! 

Just relaxing...

Jesse and I enjoyed Champagne Sunday morning 

Dusty and Chelsea 💖

The long line at the Fisherterian in Bodega Bay. We were 
there at 1100 on Saturday. No line. Father's day same
time it was crazy long lines! 

Owen enjoying the hot tub!

Cassidy too! 

A great time was had by all for sure! 

Yesterday we cleaned up and got ready to head home. I was riding with Linda and Bobby so we got to their place around 1130 or so. I left and ran by Raley's to pick up a few things and  then headed for Russell's house. I was supposed to go home, but somehow said I would make enchiladas because AARON is home for a few weeks. He wasn't supposed to come home all summer from Santa Barbara, but he is! So, what do Grandma's do when the college kid comes home! 

We had a good evening watching soccer and visiting. 

This morning I left hime a couple of egg burritos and headed forhome about 0740. 

So here I am back at home enjoying the a/c because it's HOT outside! 

A few random pics and I'll end the blog for now. 

Grandma Linda and Grandpa Bobby took the kids out for 
last day of school treat! 

Congratulations Owen, he's heading to middle school (6th grade)
He's going to Barrett Intermediate which is the same school my
sisters and I attended over 50 years ago. It used to b 7th and 8th
now they consider middle school 6th. Seems to be the thing nowadays

Love this pic. You can see where Avery gets 
her beautiful lips from 💕

Uncle Bryan showing my sister Wendy's grandson, Phoenix how
it's done in Arkansas! 💕💙

Dusty and Bobby 

                                                   Owen, Bobby and Dusty. The cool weather

                                     was so nice!!