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!!

Bridgeport CA for a day drive, Helping John and Karen, a nice week and Avery Grace of course

 Tuesday, June 2nd we had to go to Gardnerville  to pick up Ken's prescriptions. We didn't really have anything else to do in town so decided to take a drive to Bridgeport, CA  and check out some campgrounds for the spots we might want to camp out later this summer. We've camped there several times over the years, but with online reservations now for most we wanted to pick our spots. 

I made sandwiches before we left so we'd have a nice lunch by the lake. 

We got the prescriptions and headed towards Bridgeport. We had a beautiful drive down Highway 395 and just enjoyed the scenery. Gas in Bridgeport has always been expensive and was no exception. Gas prices were near $8.00 a gallon. OUCH! CA for ya. 

WE drove through all the campgrounds and wrote down the numbers that will fit the Mansion. A lot of people camping already. The lakes are stocked and record size fish are being caught even from shoreline. We drove by one little boy who had 5 or 6 on his stringer, he held them up as we drove by. Luckily I had my window down and gave him a thumbs up and "way to go" Big smile on his part. 💙

Lunch time so pulled over at a wide spot by the lake and got our goodies out. Sat in our camping chairs and just enjoyed! 

The road to Twin Lakes 

Our view from our picnic lunch

Once we finished we headed out towards home. Bridgeport is an adorable town. Very touristy in the summer. 

Bridgeport Lake on the way home

This beautiful area is only an hour and a half from home, makes it easy to visit. Just have to find the time! 

The rest of the week we've been home other than taking Karen to Lowe's in Fernley so she could get some wood and etc for a project they're working on right now. Heating up that's for sure. 

It's a beautiful bridge, not quite finished yet but almost

Ken's worked next door some getting the pad area leveled and ready for a huge above ground pool that's going in soon. Today, Saturday we got the pool up. I think it's 12x25 and 52 inches deep. A lot of work but it'll be really nice! 

Ken and Janelle working on getting wrinkles out of the 
tarp to put the pool on 

Avery Grace 💗

Grandma Christina  and Avery 💗

A hint of a smile there 💕 Hard to believe on the 8th she'll
be a month old already. Hoping to see her soon! 

Great nephew Owen and his friend Bradley spent the week at Westminster
Woods for their 5th grade trip along with other classmates. They had a ball!

Owen 💙

I'd say Owen's mom Chelsea was glad to have him back home.
Owen's dad Dusty actually went as a chaperone. 

It's Saturday almost 1700. I think we've earned a beer and a glass of wine today so have a wonderful Saturday evening. 

Another catch up post! Picture overload! Memorial weekend in Tonopah, Visitors!

 

When your daddy's a Marine you've got to have your Memorial Day Picture!
💖 Miss Avery Grace 

We left home on Friday the 22nd of May and headed a little over 2 hours to Tonopah, NV and Jim Butler Days for Memorial weekend. It was a beautiful day and weekend. 

We walked the town and then got checked in. 

Then to Tonopah Brewing Company to get a beer and a glass of wine. 

We enjoyed ourselves and discovered Happy Hour began at 1400. :) Lots of people in town. We walked around some more and then back to Tonopah Brewing. 

At 1800 the bartender races began which is always fun to watch. They had a new challenge that we really enjoyed. People had to hold out 32 ounce beer mugs for as long as they could. Started with kids (empty mugs of course). Then women had a 12 ounce beer and then men with 24 ounces of beer in the mug. 

Yep he's the winner! 

As you can imagine the kids and women didn't last too long but it came down to two men. The winner has won for the last 6 years. He did split some of his $ with the guy who came in 2nd. 

Loved this shirt on the guy in front of me!
RED is for Fridays! 

We ended the night at Hometown Pizza almost across from our motel room. Good food, good drinks and excellent prices! 

Nice pours and cheap prices! 

Saturday morning we had our breakfast in our room. I had brought hard boiled eggs and toast. 

We went out to watch the parade. What a waste! 99 percent was politicians promoting themselves. No high school bands, no ROTC nothing! Not even the fire trucks or sheriff! Not a Memorial Day Parade that we've enjoyed many times before. 

The most patriotic part of the parade Nevada flag and his
wife had the American flag. 

Later in the day when we didn't know what to do we sat on
the bleachers and people watched. LOL. Of course
the random tumbleweed had to make an appearance :)

It was time to get to the main event of the day. Drilling and mucking. Well, we were disappointed, very disappointed. They had moved the event from the mining museum area to a place in town. No place to put your lawn chairs and they weren't even drilling a rock. Looks like they poured a couple block of cement to replicate the rocks they used to use. We didn't stay. We won't be going back! Need to find another small town that does a nice Memorial Day event.

We actually went back to Hometown Pizza for another yummy dinner. 

Found a few other things to do and then actually took a nap in the motel room. LOL. 

Woke refreshed and then Tonopah brewing for one more. I loved the wine glasses they used and asked if they sold them, they did. For the weekend 2 for 15. YES! When we got home, she had put an extra one in the bag 😊

The Mexican Restaurant in town for dinner. It was delicious! 

Sunday we got home around 1300 and time for Champagne Sunday. LOL. 

A little wind and a beautiful new flag greeted us at
John and Karen's 

Monday we were at Karen's for barbecue so that was a nice day too. 

Thursday at about 1300 our friends Doug and Michelle in their motorhome drove in. They were completing about a two month trip and stopped by on the their way home to Kingman, AZ. It's been over 3 years since we last saw them. Last time was in Quartszite, AZ. 

Love their license plate! 

Doug and Michelle 💖

We visited in the indoor kitchen and then moved outdoors. Later Ken barbecued some chicken and John came over to visit. 

We totally enjoyed having them. Friday afternoon we left here and took a little drive around Yerington (not really much to see LOL) We took them to the Cellar in Dini's Casino and had a few drinks. Then on to the Wagon Wheel where had drinks and Pizza! We've heard about the pizza but never had it. It was certainly worth trying YUM! 

The Wagon Wheel, Yerington, NV

Saturday morning after breakfast they left for home. Hopefully we will see them in the Fall/Winter time. 

Saturday was John's 57th birthday so we headed over there and enjoyed with some friends of theirs who we haven't seen in a long while. Bob and Carmen are some great people! 

Sunday morning we were invited back to have quiche for breakfast before Bob and Carmen left. It was close to noon before we came home and enjoyed our Champagne Sunday. 

Honestly we made it an early night! Having too much fun is catching up with us old folks! 😃😃

Looks like tomorrow we may be going for a drive to check out some campsites. We don't want to guess which site we're getting reserving online,  so we'll pick some we like and see if they have any openings. They fill so quickly. 

Avery had a newborn baby shoot so I will include some of those here:

Holly and her baby girl 💗

Seth, Holly and Avery 💖

Out for an evening walk

Mason and Chloe's sunset photo shoot at Lake Tahoe 💖

May 24th was Russell and Lori's 29th Anniversary so they took a nice drive and enjoyed themselves. 

                                       Happy 29th Russell and Lori! 💙

Jacob and Allissa getting ready for a night out. Burt doesn't
look too happy that doesn't include him 💙

Their night out included meeting up with cousin Jesse! 😍

And Terrance! Jesse and Terrance are from Sacramento and flew down for
the Memorial Day weekend in San Diego. 😊

Well, I think that's it for today. Thanks for reading along 😊  Hopefully the next one won't be so far in-between. Have a great night, it's Happy Hour here! 🍺🍷

A early Happy Birthday to Erin (Adam's fiancee) tomorrow. Cheers to 27! 😍