Bryan's Family Comes to Town Day 6

December 3, 2009 Thursday

Today was the day to celebrate Grumpy and Daka's 35th Anniversary.
This was the day we all would hang out around the house ALL DAY with each other. We started the day with a Bible study. Then music and eating galore! There were games, lots of visiting, lots of crazy antics, Daka brought out the quilts her mother made and had each "family" select one for themselves in a secret ballot.
That evening, Brad and Esther joined us and we had a wonderful dinner of roast beef (from Nebraska), scalloped potatoes, and lots of other yummies. After dinner Candy and Steve each gave us a gift--very sweet of them! AND then they gave Grumpy and Daka the photo Albums they had put together. One photo album was of relatives that had sent pages they had put together of memories with Loren and Laurel. The other album was of friends of the family who had sent in pages. They were so awesome. And of course Laurel cried! :)
It was a wonderful day! It is not often that everyone gets to just hang out.

Just waking up! Cea snuggles with her Dad.

A tower of Appleman's
bottom up--Bryan, Dewey, Kip, Karena

Getting breakfast ready, as well as the roasts for dinner.

Uncle Dewey spends some time with his favorite girls!

Casper and Kip

Cea gets a better view on top of Uncle Dewey

Looks like Casper wants his Aunt Christine

Of course this wouldn't be an Appleman day without some "good-natured" wrestling.

Dog pile!!!! AGAIN!!
um, why is Uncle Darren on the top??
Most of you can't tell, but Kip is on the bottom; you can barely see his feet stick out.

Morning Bible Study and sing

It was quite special to be able to read a Bible study all together.




The following picture and video come with a pre-story. . .
While trying to make plans for this week, there were several e-mails. At one point Dewey sent one out to let everyone know he agreed--However, he wrote, "I can curr".
Bryan immediately informed everyone that to "curr" meant to hoot like an owl, and that he was looking forward to hearing Dewey curr. Of course that meant everyone was looking forward to Dewey curring, and there was a discussion about whether their should be a talent show. The following is a bit of the talent show. (Please keep in mind that I just the word "talent" loosely.)

"I can curr"


Sure enough, he could curr

Casper is delighted with Grumpy's talent

Here he goes again

Dewey and Carmel try to out handstand each other
Dewey of course didn't have the handicap of worrying about his panties showing.
He said he wasn't wearing panties


On to the arm wrestling. . .

Steven versus Dewey

Bryan versus Dewey

We laughed at these boys. All snuggled up on the couch. Looks like they need a "Snuggie"

2 friends playing a duet
Clark and Mircea

Craig versus Dewey

More piano playing

They are so cute!

It was quite a show

Darren versus Dewey

I wish I could say Candy beat Dewey, but she didn't-
but I have decided to say it was a close thing! grin!
I believe there was a face off between Loren and Dewey, but I didn't get a picture.

Clark and Mircea

Carmel and Casper

Quilt 1--Craig

Quilt 2 --Went home with Daka

Quilt 3--Candy

Quilt 4--Carmel

Quilt 5 --Bryan

Quilt 6--Darren

Quilt 7 --Brad

Those holding up the quilts got carried away.

Quilt 8 - went back home with Daka
(Grandma Eleanor died before she could hand quilt it, so it is quilted by machine)

Quilt 9--Dewey

Boy hang out time in Candy' and Steve's room

Darren and Dewey haven't had much time together since Dewey moved away.

Daka and an accordion

Looking up Accordion playing on the Internet

Lots of music: Bryan-Acoustic bass, Porsche--Viola, Christine--Cello, Daka--Accordion
I didn't post the video of the music because it is best left up to one's imagination

Daka moves to the piano

We open the piano up to see the keys move

Steve grilling a ton of hot dogs and hamburgers

Cea playing with cars

Dewey, Kip and Bryan playing the guitars

Darren joins in on the cell0

A hug for Grumpy

Opening gifts at dinner time

A cute outfit for Cea

Daka and Grumpy open their gift and see the albums

Looking at Mircea's page

Looking at Casper's page

Their anniversary cake

The happy couple who made all this possible :)

Everyone gathered around to view the albums with Grumpy and Daka

Craig wearing one of Cea's headbands.
(Once he took it off, he had a dent in his hair the rest of the night)

Casper receiving a zerbert from Aunt Carmel

Dishes--there were a lot of them!

Cea posing in her new flipflops from Daka

Casper wanted in the picture too

Carmel starts learning electric guitar on her own

Casper playing with another gift from Daka and Grumpy right before he goes to bed