Grandma's 90th Birthday Party (10/10/10)

Today was another fun-filled day for us. We tried to get a few things done around the house in the morning then after Lily's morning nap, we headed up to Frankenmuth for my grandmother's 90th birthday party. Her birthday is actually not until November 7th but we had to plan the party around everyone's schedules so it ended up being nearly a month early. Still, my cousin Todd was unable to attend at the last minute due to work but we tried! It was a gorgeous day so I think that everyone in the area headed to Frankenmuth as well. There was absolutely no parking so, after circling for quite a while, Paul dropped Lily and me off and parked nearly a mile away.
We had a wonderful dinner with my family. Here is everyone (minus Paul who took the picture)- me, my mom with Lily, my dad, my grandma, Aunt Margaret, Uncle Dale, Jeremy, Ashlee and my Aunt Robin are hidden, Uncle Lee, and Aunt Gloria:

My grandmother is notoriously hard to shop for so my mom had the great idea of giving her a money tree as her gift. Finally, a present my grandma won't return:

Grandma opening her cards:

Grandma with Aunt Margaret and Uncle Dale:

Jeremy, Ashlee, Aunt Robin, part of Uncle Lee, and Aunt Gloria:

Singing 'happy birthday' over her sundae:

Lily loved the ice cream:

But she especially loved the little animals that came atop everyone's desserts:

Where did all of grandma's money go? Well, we had to pay for the dinner somehow! Just kidding:

After dinner, we all headed back to my grandma's house to visit further. Lily was tired at dinner despite having almost a three hour nap beforehand so she ended up snoozing for about 30 minutes on the car ride to nana's house. She woke up in a great mood and enjoyed playing with her little plastic animals that came in everyone's ice cream on my grandma's window seats:

Paul, Lily, and my mom in the window:

Lily with her little animals on the window ledge:

Lily and grandma:

Lily, Paul, and I pose for a family photo outside:

It was a great day and I think that everyone had a wonderful time together celebrating my grandma's birthday. It was such a busy but fun-filled weekend and the weather was absolutely gorgeous and unusually hot. We were bummed to have the weekend come to an end but our next workweek will be short as we are leaving on vacation to Houston in only a few days.