We lazed around, ate breakfast but then at noon we headed out to
the zoo for another party. The zoo hosts a big hamburger feed and gives you free tickets to the zoo, botanical gardens and the aquarium. There sure were a lot of people!!! Jim and I didn't walk around looking at the animals, but I did have to take photos of my beloved flamingos, you know.We bid goodbye to Bill and Lesle and Jim and I picked up the dogs and headed to Santa Fe to have dinner with the girls and grands. Beth is going to move next door to her sister, Christine so I stopped and bought
her a new set of sheets as a housewarming gift. We picked up some hamburger patties and buns and arrived at Christine's just ahead of our grandson Maxx and his very expecting girlfriend, April. She is due Nov. 29th. Can you believe that little "bump" is only 6 weeks shy of delivering? Remember, the yellow knitted sweater, cap and booties I made for them? Well, April was delighted and Maxx cried. He said he was so touched that I would spend so much time knitting an outfit for his little girl. Isn't that a nice thing to say. Maxx has certainly changed from being a pure thug to being a very, very nice and considerate person. He helped his mom to serve refreshments, offered to light the bbq grill, even escorted April to the restroom and waited for her outside to help ease her back into her chair. He said when he was out on his own at 17 he figured he was the only one making his life miserable and there wasn't anybody else to blame or rebel against. He said life is a whole lot easier when you are just nice to people....they are nice back. Profound, huh?
Next big thing happened with Beth's boyfriend, James, asking Jim for Beth's hand in marriage. Jim said James hymned and stammered for a good two minutes with "Sir, there is something I need to talk to you about. Sir, ah, well Sir, I mean, well Sir." 
You can see it was a very serious talk of what will happen to James if he doesn't take care of Beth and make her happy....let alone the things that will happen to James' anatomy if he hurt Beth in any way :) Next Beth had to go out and receive Jim's blessings and hear the good news, as Jim wiped the tears of joy from his eyes. Happy, happy day.
Add to this that we were celebrating our granddaughter, Alyssa's, birthday and it made for a very full day. Here she is blowing out the candles on her birthday cheesecake.
We so enjoyed being with our family again, told old stories of "remember when you........." and laughed till our sides hurt. After a few hours we all left as Beth had to go to work-she works nights in a battered women's shelter-and Jim and I need to get back and to bed because 4:30 AM comes very early in the morning.
Remember, you are loved!
P.S. I told Jim when I die and they are trying to find photos of me for the memory board they will have to put up photos like this and say "Bobbie was behind the camera on this one, and this one and she really attended this function, but she was behind the camera on this one too."!!!!!!
Give our congratulations to Beth and James.
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