Happy 95th Birthday Great-Grandpa Don!

We drove down to LA to help Zack's Granddad Don celebrate his 95th birthday. It was quite a party. The party itself was in Pasadena (where we almost got run over by "the little old lady from Pasadena" in her sports car), at a beautiful site overlooking one of the great bridges of LA.

Best of all we got to hang out with lots of Jarvis's (is the plural form really Jarvi??), family and friends at Don's house beforehand and at the party. Anna (and Megan) joined us there too; Eleanor (and Colby) was unfortunately too sick to come, but Beatrice and Anna made quite a pair with Great-Great Aunt Betty!

The only problem was that the party was from 2-5pm. And at 4pm Beatrice does a bit of a Cinderella, turning from "oh look at sweet little girl dancing" to "oh wow, her parents are going to have a time with her, aren't they?" And we did. (These were actual quotes overheard.)

We did manage to get one semi-nice picture of the 3 of us, but look at the other one where Beatrice is giving us her "seriously, it's 4:30pm, what do you expect from me" look.

Don was roasted by friends (and his kids!) at his birthday party. I was outside with Crazy-pants for most of it, which is probably ok, as much of it was X-rated anyway. They also had a band, which Beatrice loved. Though I think she was honestly confused why the man with the banjo wasn't Granddaddy Bill.

Some of my favorite pictures from the day - Megan & Anna. Take a look at the second photo - they have the exact same shocked look! "Oh no, he didn't!"