Nana's Birthday Party

And finally, the whole reason we went to Georgia was to celebrate a very special birthday for Nana!

Unfortunately the birthday celebration didn't get off to the greatest start when the night we were supposed to go out for a nice dinner the Notre Dame football team decided to go into triple overtime and dinner out turned into takeout. Fortunately, the food was still delicious. And the Irish pulled out a win.

And we still got to celebrate Nana on Sunday with a beautiful day and a fun family cookout.

Kaelyn trying to play badminton with the other kids

Brennan doing his own thing

I actually think there were at least 3 different sports being played on the badminton court at the same time.

Playing bocci.

Kaelyn's first attempt at bocci. "Just take it!"

A cranky Brennan stealing the bocci balls.

And the palina.

Nana cheering up Brennan after he was removed from the bocci game.

Girls bonding over an iPad.

We also celebrated on Nana's real birthday. We relieved Nana from cooking duties and tried to give her a delicious birthday dinner followed by ice cream cake. Can you guess what the kids favorite part was?

Lighting the candles for Nana

Patiently waiting to dig in while we sung "Happy Birthday."

And we ended the night with a bedtime story with Care-Care.

 

Actually, that's how the kids ended the night. The rest of us continued to celebrate. And waited to hear from Matt who was waiting at the airport to see if his plane was going to take off so he could to get back to Indy for a work function. And then we ended up driving to the airport to pick Matt up 2 hours after he was dropped off. I think we were all glad that he got to come back and finish the night with us even though he had to go through the headache of airport delays and driving back and forth to the airport.

Hope you had a great birthday Nana!