Happy Birthday GG!

August 10 was my grandmother's 100th birthday!! She is an amazing example of how to age (or "elder") well. She has a beautiful garden that she works in almost everyday, and is active at church (in a multi-generational small group) and family events. She has never missed a grandchild's graduation - that includes jr high through college, and there are 9 of us! My youngest cousin graduates college next spring and she is planning to be there! Here she is with the grandchildren:

And her kids: (in a great example of an ideal mother in law - she says she has 6 kids, not three and spouses):


So we spent the week camping near her home in Oregon, celebrating with her and many family members. The kids had a great time playing with cousins, riding scooters, picking blackberries next to the campsite for breakfast, making smores.

Doug got in two good rounds of disc golf and we enjoyed late night hours of poker and Scattegories. It took two days to drive home and by the second day, Zach had figured out that if he said he needed a pit stop, we would stop the car as soon as possible. There were more stops (some of them unneccesary) as the day wore on, but we made it home. And just in time for school to start!