Al and Faith (and Tai & Bode): January 2011

Friday, January 28, 2011

Grandpa teaching Ava

We have Ava overnight tonight. (We have to get all the Grandma and Grandpa time we can get before we leave in a few weeks.)

As I was cooking dinner, I came into the living room and saw Ava and Al sitting all nice and quiet in the chair watching TV.

Then I turn around and see what they are watching:

Pale Rider. Clint Eastwood. From 1985. I don’t quite get that he loves watching these stupid old westerns, but now he’s teaching Ava to like them as well?

Ava and Sarah came to visit a few days ago and Grandpa decided to take Ava sledding on the (very small) hill by the side of the house.

They went up and down two times before this:

This picture was taken 2 seconds before she fell on her side into the snow and then she was done. No more sledding, thank you!

Friday, January 21, 2011

25th Birthday

Our baby turned 25 last week, on 1-11-11. I can’t believe that he’s that old already. Time does fly.

We went to Des Moines on Saturday to celebrate with him. He always has to drive the 1 1/2 hours to come back home to celebrate anything, so we thought we would come to him for once.

He wanted to try Jethro’s BBQ for dinner because he had seen it on an episode of “Man vs. Food”. We had Kim and Janelle and all the kids, Al’s parents Art & Jan, Sarah & Craig, and friends Matt & Erica all with us. The food was pretty good, I had the catfish po’boy and I liked it. They served the beer in pint or quart Mason jars. It wasn’t a real big place, but it was packed and they treated our big group of 15 well.

We went to a sports bar for a bit after that which was nice, but the football game was on and you couldn’t hear each other talk, then to another small neighborhood bar that Matt’s friend Erin worked at. We didn’t do much, but we had fun.

My camera was on the wrong setting so none of the pictures turned out but here you go anyway:

Al messing with the camera. There are actually 4 just like this one! I think that’s Janelle trying to help him figure it out. It is actually this side up, he had the camera upside down (I guess I could have turned it around, but that’s no fun).