We celebrated my dad’s seventieth birthday in Charlottesville this weekend. Right here is the recap of his basketball themed social gathering, mountain climbing journey, and extra.
Household images by Cramer Picture!
Pleased seventieth Dad!
This previous weekend the Youthful fam got here up for a go to and we celebrated dad’s seventieth birthday with all of his favourite issues: a basketball pizza social gathering (full with a Duke cake!), Chinese language meals, mountain climbing, a winery afternoon, and his grandchildren throughout him. We had Sarah Cramer Shields come take household portraits to recollect the weekend by. A priceless reminiscence! I’ll be sharing plenty of the pics later this week.
Dad wasn’t the one one getting presents upon arrival – Gus received a brand new lobster from Grammie!
Friday: Dinner at Peter Chang’s
On Friday everybody drove up, and we piled into our automotive to go to Peter Chang’s for dinner. Dad LOVES Chinese language meals, so we stunned him with this dinner by telling him we had been going to a really costly farm-to-table restaurant. He was very happy!
Thomas went to see a few birthday dessert, and so they got here out with a clementine as the best choice. Our server stated it represented good luck!
Saturday Hike
Saturday morning we fueled up for a hike!
Ellen, an avid hiker, was our information and helped us select a path. Whereas we might have preferred to drive as much as the mountains, the Ragged Mountain path was our choose for its proximity to downtown and scenic reservoir lake. It was beautiful! Thanks Ellen for serving to manage!
The little youngsters stayed again with mother on the home, and we hiked about 4 miles in good climate.
Sandwiches from Bellair
On our means residence we picked up an order of Bellair Market sandwiches. At all times so good after a hike!
Ladies Afternoon
The boys had plans for golf within the morning, so the women headed out for some buying! We went to J Crew Manufacturing facility the place I received this costume.
After which to make use of our time properly, we sipped coffees and teas at Greenberry’s!
Be aware the location of tattoos the day earlier than household images 😉
Downtime
Basketball Pizza Get together
On Saturday night time we had a basketball themed pizza social gathering for dad.
Whereas UVA might need been the beer theme, the cake theme was only for dad! Caked Up Cville made us an epic Duke cake! All of us raved about how good it was for dad who was a Duke bball season ticket holder my entire childhood. In the event you didn’t know, my dad and mom met at Duke.
It was a slam dunk!
We had a number of video games deliberate: Cliff Trivia, Title That Tune from his favourite songs, and charades. He additionally was gifted many tins of combined nuts – his favourite!
Sunday
On Sunday morning, the younger dads performed golf, and the Youthful dad and firm went to the playground!
Household Pics
We had our session with Sarah at 1:00 and love all of the pics she captured!
Sunday Funday
We ended the day at King Household Vineyards with cheese, wine, and video games.
Everybody was full and drained once we retired with a film for the night time. We had straightforward quiche, soup, and pot pies for dinner.
The children spent a lot time on the trampoline! We’re lacking them. Sarah captured these nice pictures!
It was a terrific family-filled weekend!
