Now that it has been SEVERAL days since this has happened...I can't remember everything. But, I do know that my sister and I woke up and thought we would call our mom and see where they were...we called...my mom sounded groggy and sleepy, my sister asked why they weren't on the road yet...my mom said where are you? My sister replied in the kitchen at Grandma's, and then asked where are you? My mom said in Exira, in Grandma's House, in the Blue room...we laughed hysterically. Turns out with three drivers, Mom, Dad and Tom drove all night and got in really early that morning. We went through the usual morning ritual...breakfast, sitting around the kitchen table...and then got ready for the day. I sat with Grandma and rested after lunch and then did some laundry and some other odds and ends to get ready for the big family dinner that night. It started to rain right about the time we headed to the Nursing Home to visit Grandma Hays for coffee time at 3pm...then we returned to head to Audubon to get the ice cream cake and stuff for the 4th of July (I was going to make a fruit salad). Lynn, Jake and I went to Audub
on and showed Jake Albert the Bull...when we pulled into the park, Jake was a little disappointed that Albert was a huge fiberglass structure...not an actual bull. Dinner prep continued when we returned. Tim had seen a guy grill a prime rib on PBS using cheese, rosemary and garlic...and wanted to reproduce this. So, he cooked the prime rib while Lynn and I did the salad, rosemary roast potatoes and the rest of the food. It turned out sooooo good! Everyone loved it! It was done rare...to our liking...and we finished off the meal with a DQ ice cream blizzard cake, half turtle blizzard and half vanilla with pink icing. We sang to mom and grandma...and they blew out their candles! It was great! Grandpa went out after dinner and started a fire in the rain...so a bunch of people went out to enjoy it...I went to bed with Tim...after all the 4th was the next day and it is usually quite the long and exciting day!
on and showed Jake Albert the Bull...when we pulled into the park, Jake was a little disappointed that Albert was a huge fiberglass structure...not an actual bull. Dinner prep continued when we returned. Tim had seen a guy grill a prime rib on PBS using cheese, rosemary and garlic...and wanted to reproduce this. So, he cooked the prime rib while Lynn and I did the salad, rosemary roast potatoes and the rest of the food. It turned out sooooo good! Everyone loved it! It was done rare...to our liking...and we finished off the meal with a DQ ice cream blizzard cake, half turtle blizzard and half vanilla with pink icing. We sang to mom and grandma...and they blew out their candles! It was great! Grandpa went out after dinner and started a fire in the rain...so a bunch of people went out to enjoy it...I went to bed with Tim...after all the 4th was the next day and it is usually quite the long and exciting day!
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