Sunday in Ely

 We had a very short walk just on Jay's trails and then down to the bay.

The mama deer was out again. Today the fawn was very frisky.  It kept running in circles through the woods and back.

I want to play hide and seek mom, you count.

Where did you go?

There you are!!

Jay made French toast.

Yummy.

We headed off to church.  I met the new pastor, Kay Carter. Interesting thought: What would you really like to have on a welcome mat? What would you really like to say? 

Church was followed by a potluck.  Those are always fun with way too much food.  Jeanne had made a tortellini with tomato sauce hot dish.  It was almost all eaten. 

A little bit of screen time

Then we took the pontoon out.

Emmet and Liam like to get pulled around on the tube.

We like to sit and relax and enjoy the scenery

Jeanne, Laura, me.

It was great to listen to Laura play the piano.

I had given this Lego flower arrangement to Jeanne for her birthday.

Soon after we got back the company started to arrive for Jay's birthday party.

Bev and Dan on the right.  They were the first to arrive.  A lot the people from yesterday's birthday party were coming.

As they arrived I got busy making Hugos for 11 people.  1 bottle of Prosecco, 1 bottle of club soda and 2 cups of elderflower liqueur with lemon slices and mint.  I think that it was a hit.

Ice cream cake.

Gordon, Trey, Julie, Christine, and Spencer all with their Hugos. 

Jay opened his gifts.  The main one was a magazine which Laura put together of pictures and stories she had collected from all of Jay's friends and relatives.  It was an amazing magazine.  It was modeled after the Bulls Eye News magazine which Jay used to put out for his dart company.

The first page had some of the pictures I had sent in from Jay's college days. I did not do the text. It was 28 pages long.  Laura also has pages of things that people wrote which she either did not get in time or they were too long to fit in.  It had drawings that the grandkids did and puzzles.  Very professional magazine.  

Christine, Spencer, and Irwin had to leave but the rest hung around. 

It was wild in the family room.

After Bev and Dan left we joined the crowd in the family room.  They had wanted to hang around until Tristan and Wilhelm arrived.  They arrived around 6:15 pm.

Tristan is the one standing.

Levi, Gordon, and Tristan.  Tristan has gotten pretty tall.  He is 15.

Once Wilhelm and Tristan arrived Gordon and family all left and Jay started fixing dinner.  

Grilling the brats.

Quite a feast.  

We ended the evening by watching Apollo 13.