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! 😍

A wonderful weekend full of surprises and family!

Friday the 23rd I texted grandson Aaron to tell him Happy Graduation as he has completed 2 years at Sierra College. In the Fall he'll be going to Santa Barbara for the last two years he'll need for his career in finance. At the end of our texting he said "See you tomorrow". I knew Seth and Mason planned on coming but that was a nice surprise! 💗

Diane and Jesse got here on Friday right around lunch time. Glad they came as Jesse had a tough week. We enjoyed getting caught up and in the evening had a nice fire going and more conversation. 

Saturday morning I made breakfast in our indoor kitchen, figuring when people got here I'd be cooking outside. Seth had texted me about 0630 saying he was on his way. Seth and Aaron all got here within 1/2 hour or so with Aaron arriving first. It's about 3 1/2 or 4 hours from where they all live in CA. Mason had to work so he didn't get here until evening. 

I was in the kitchen finishing up some enchiladas for dinner and see this white small car pulling into the driveway. I could see it was a Nissan. Oh my goodness! It's Eric our son! We had no idea he was coming, sounded like he didn't know it either until earlier in the day. He could only stay one night but sure made our day! 

So once I finished up getting dinner ready, outside we went to the kitchen and were having Happy Hour together. All of a sudden I hear "Hey Grandma, it's Happy Hour can we do Happy Hour?" What???!!!! I look and it's Jacob and Allissa!!! It's our Sailor who came all the way from San Diego to surprise us!!!! Tears?? No none, right!  

The first picture, Jacob did a toast to the good company of family. 💙

Russell had gifted this bottle of Pendleton Whisky Military Edition to Jacob.
That's what was used for the toast 💖

                                               

WOW! Such a great surprise!! We caught up and enjoyed Happy Hour all weekend! Russell and Lori had been down there visiting and Jacob and Allissa made the decision to come up. He had texted his cousins asking what they were doing for Memorial Weekend. So, they've all known for a couple of weeks they were coming and no one spilled the beans! 

Jesse enjoying the fire 💙

Diane 💕

Eric and Seth💙

Jacob! 💙

Aaron, Allissa, Jacob💙

Seth 💙

Eric left on Sunday after breakfast. He had to work on Monday. Breakfast was made in the outdoor kitchen. I had my champagne Sunday pretty much by myself, after all if I'm cooking needed a little kick. 😂 We had a late Saturday night too! haha. 

Diane and Jesse left then too, as Jesse had a wedding to attend. 

Pretty much laid back day, just the way it should be when you have company! We all did go over and visit with Mugsy and Lila. John and Karen were camping for the weekend so we (Ken) were dog sitting. Once it cooled off we had another nice fire and some adult beverages with everyone back at our house. 

I knew the kids would want to leave early as it's a good 8 to 9 hour drive and they were stopping to get some lunch in Big Pine. I made breakfast outdoors and then they loaded up and left. Seth and Mason followed soon after. Actually, everyone was gone a little after 0900. 

Ken decided it was a good day to have Champagne Monday, since he didn't partake on Sunday. Who am I to argue? We enjoyed the day, mostly in the outdoor kitchen. I did get it cleaned up, so I did do something. LOL. 

John and Karen were home so in the afternoon went over there to catch up  on their trip to Virginia City. 

Today was a good day, warm and warmer this week. Ken cleaned and got the stock tank ready for summer. He planted a couple of plants we got at Lowe's last week. 

Russell and Lori had a wedding to attend on Sunday of their good friend Steve and his lady "Sunshine". Russell was actually the "officiant" so he married them. The wedding was held in the Santa Rosa area. 

💙

Russell in pants! He's always in shorts year round! 💙

Russell and Lori all dressed up for the wedding 💗

On the way home they stopped to visit my Dad and Mom
Popo and Ma  the kids called them 💙😢. 

Eric and Christina sent this for Mother's Day. I have to say Grandma's garden was certainly full this last weekend. Minus one grandson. How blessed are we to have this beautiful family of ours, including our Allissa. I still tear up thinking of how they all kept a secret, and were here all together to enjoy the weekend.  Jesse and Diane too. My heart is just overflowing with LOVE! 

Well, time to get this posted, Happy Hour on the horizon!🍷🍺