This week was full of fun! We kicked it off with a Memorial Day Parade in downtown Powell and then ended the day at the Kessler’s for the New City Memorial Day Cookout. Finn had fun with friends everywhere we went! At the parade we ran in to my college friend Kim, and her family. Seems so funny, but we can be at the most crowded events and still randomly find each other! 
It was also the Memorial Tournament week and I was able to take Friday off work to head to the course with Kevin, Paul, and Megan. It was a HOT day, but we enjoyed sitting on the course, having a few beverages, and hanging out. Later that evening it was Millcreek’s end of Spring Celebration at the bowling alley in Plain City. It was a pretty fun night with a large portion of our crew!
Saturday was a super fun and busy day too! We started the day at a birthday party for our neighbor, Cooper, who turned 5. It was a fun, energy-bursting party held at Buckeye Bounce. All of the kids burned a lot of energy and then fueled back up on pizza and cake. Initially, Kevin and I watched Griffin bounce around and play with the other kids. But then we figured, what the heck – let’s bounce too! It was a lot of fun – we have added it as a “summer bucket list” item to go back and bounce some more.
After Cooper’s party, we went home and picked up Lily and headed to Mom and Dad’s to celebrate Dad’s 70th birthday party. Whoa! When we arrived we heard the loud sounds of the cicada’s, which were around in huge numbers. Eeek, just walking around (in flip flops) is kinda crazy and “dangerous”, lol. You are at risk of squishing one on your foot! But Finn was quite brave (way more than me!) and picked them up, let them crawl on his arms, and such.
Recently, Mom and Dad had the concrete sidewalk along side of their house re-done when the gas meter was moved. When the new concrete was poured, they etched the initials of each grandkid in the concrete. Here is Finn in front of his 🙂
We celebrated Dad’s birthday with lots of time outdoors followed by dinner and a DQ cake for dessert. Next up were the presents which all the kids helped “open”. Kevin came up with a great idea to give my dad engraved hosta name markers for each of the hostas that he has either named, introduced, registered, or bred that are on the market. The funny thing is, once Kevin pulled the info from the hosta registrars site – we realized there were 69 hostas associated with my dad. Sooooo….being that it was his 70th birthday, we had one extra sign made to equal 70, for Hosta ‘World Cup’, which just so happens to be the 2017 American Hosta Growers Association Hosta of the Year! 
During our visit Graham gave everyone a piano concert in the living room. Finn really wanted to do one too, so he gave one for me, Kevin, and Mom. And just so we don’t paint the picture that life is always roses, our last pic is one of Finn mastering the grumpy face after not getting his way for something (for which I can’t recall!). 
