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Wishing we were there to share this 35th birthday with you. I honestly don’t know where those years went. Hoping you are having a G-R-E-A-T DAY!

It was a blast finding all the parts to Travis’ costume…I think he wanted a ‘Johnny Depp’ look, but was a good sport with the make-up Brian did for him. I think this is Cynthia’s first attempt at sewing a costume! It turned out great…that was fun time for sure.

I have been trying to gather old Halloween costume pictures since Lei posted her childhood photos years ago, I really thought that there would be more, but, after all this searching, least I found some.

OK, lets use the comments to guess who is in the picture

and/or what they are made up as!

(you see that way I don’t have to think up captions)

(Click on pic to enlarge, be patient, they are big, there may be an arrow to zoom at the bottom too.)

I hope we haven’t started with one that is too easy.

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Maybe they just seem easy to me cause its my game?

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OOps we just went from easy to impossible.

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OK so which kid????

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Maybe girls are easy?, by the way I don’t know who did the makeup but I think its great!

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Now don’t get confused.

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Now the piece de resistance…

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Just my favorite costumes ever, and the hardest,

don’t tell if you know, till everybody (all 2 readers) get to vote.

OK ready Comment!

We have had such a great response I decided I had to add these that I forgot

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That is a happy child!

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For extra credit, name the cat?

Oh, and I must confess I’m not real sure what the costume is?

Let the games begin! again

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Play Happy Birthday

We all actually kept it a surprise to the end!

Daisy & Darcy got Grandma Pat out of her house by 10:15 a.m. Their story was, they needed her to go to the mall to have a picture of the three of them taken to give to Lynne for Mother’s Day. As soon as they left, Lynne called Randy & I, to let us know that the coast was clear (her and John were lurking around the corner, and we were just down the street) and we all met at Pat’s to decorate and set up for the party. There were lots of helping hands, decorating, getting all the food out, bringing chairs and BBQ’s, blowing up balloons when the tank ran out, and just getting it all together before Pat and the girls came back.  We made it just in time, and the rest of the day was just wonderful! There were so many friends, old and new and family, old and young. Thanks to all of you that were able to come, even though weather threatened to storm and ruin the day. Even though it was cold and kept the party inside, which we hadn’t planned for, everyone had a great time visiting and catching up on old times. It was a great day for a great lady!

And the picture of Pat, Daisy & Darcy, for Lynne, was just another bit of beautiful icing on the cake!

Since we were busy with preparations and all, I completely forgot to get more group shots and/or very many pictures at all. It would be great to have anyone that took pictures at the party to add them to the gallery below. Also, if you have a story from the party or from knowing Pat, please feel free to add your comments below, or you can email stories/pictures/comments to me and I’ll put them into the post.

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I went down to Florida last week to see Keri and the girls. Here is Ashley and me at her Karate tournament in Melbourne, Fl. It is just south of Cocoa Beach, Fl. where Maj. Nelson lived with Jeanie, he was part of the space program located in Cape Canaveral, Fl where the Kennedy Space Center is, it was called just NASA back in the day. Of course I’m talking about the sitcom “I Dream of Jeanie“ from the 60’s, boy those were simpler days, and we were easily entertained, maybe because I was younger.

Ashley took 2nd place in her combat, and her ‘moves’ routine was just great. It was so cool to be able to be there and watch her in person.

I had a wonderful visit…just watched movies made beaded bracelets played with the baby and just visited.

We got our invite to George and Shannon’s big day! Really looking forward to sharing their big day with them and visiting with family and friends while we’re home for a short visit. Thought I’d share their song with everyone…it’s a new song and artist to me.

We woke to rain this morning and an email from our friend Fred, inviting us down to breakfast at the Sunset Grill. No not the one in Hollywood, the one in West Columbia, SC

It was my first presidential primary meet and greet, to hear a candidate speak. It wasn’t really a stump speech, come to find out it was a radio interview with Andrew Gobeil, a guy from the local PBS station. It should be on TV too, tonight in SC at 7:30PM. I guess we will be watching and hoping the camera pans the crowd.

I was engaged in a conversation with a friendly young woman, come to find out she was a reporter for The State newspaper here in Columbia, her photographer took several very close up pictures of me, none of which will be very flattering, I’m afraid. Not even as lovely as this one here.

I went there undecided between Fred and Mitt. We really enjoyed listening to him, there was lots of joking, about Law & Order, the media, Bill Clinton, Tipper Gore, us Seniors, the children photographers, of course Huckabee. But, seriously, with all my research he seems to be the most conservative (Less government) & strong on national defense. So I have decided that he is the one!