Sneaking in a weekend post on Monday

In March of 2006, my grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. In January of that year, my mom and I began collecting photos of them and their family throughout their 50 years. (Part of this collecting involved 'sneaking' into their house with our spare key while they were away to search through their albums and boxes. We took what we needed, making careful notes of where every picture had been stored, and snuck back in later to put it all back. We did 'oops' and left one picture out on the coffee table. Nana commented later on finding it, and wondered how it got out. Whew! Close call!) Anyway... we took all these pictures (over 200 of them) and scanned them into my computer. This was hours of work. We then put the scanned pics into a power point presentation 4 songs long, complete with animations and clip art. For the anniversary party, we surprised them with the slide show up on a projector screen and presented them with a video copy.

Happy 50th Anniversary!
March 2006

I tell all this to tell what we did this Saturday. Somewhere along the way, that video copy got lost (recorded over?), so Nana & PawPaw haven't been able to watch their gift in over a year, or show it to any friends. This Saturday we finally borrowed another projector and set up the slide show at my house (since it is on my computer) and surprised them one more time. It was so much fun! A little mini-party complete with brownies & ice cream! :)

That was Saturday evening. Backing up to Saturday morning...
Dale had his mind SET on going to see Nana & PawPaw Sat. morning. We had originally planned for him to spend the day with them Thursday when we went to Dallas, but decided to take him with us instead. He must have had himself all excited to be with them, because he really had them on his mind, and finally Saturday morning he couldn't take it anymore. He asked persistantly for a couple of hours, and finally I took Dale and Alan both over while Greg was mowing. Alan and I stayed for a little while, and then left Dale there for lunch and the afternoon. He later migrated to Mimi & Gramps', a few blocks up the street, and came back home when Mimi & Gramps came over for the slide show party.

Sunday was another church day. Alan and I missed Sunday School again, as that is usually his naptime, but we came on separately and made it for church. This Sunday was our pastor's last Sunday before going to a new church in a new state, so we had a finger-foods reception after church Sunday night. It was both a sad & happy good-bye, sad because we'll miss them, happy for their new plans. Greg missed part of the last devotion and prayer - he was holding Alan and Alan discovered the large room and even the hallway had great acoustics! He sounded like some kind of tropical bird, 'barking' for everybody to hear!

There was still lots of daylight after church, so Mimi & Gramps invited Dale to come play in the car wash for a little while. I guess I didn't explain well before....yes...the car wash is at their house! Yay! :) That makes it twice as fun (and doesn't run up our water bill! ;) )














Nana and PawPaw stopped by on their way home from church, and we all sat outside for a while. Alan watched it all from his swing, and was even joined by Nana for a little while:
















This is where I would like to make some witty or sentimental statement summarzing the whole thing, but I'm blogging in the middle of the day, Dale is asking a hundered questions, Alan could wake up any moment, I have to make a grocery list, the dryer is about to buzz... ahh!
The End.