This is my grandmother, Edna K. Shaefers and she is my inspiration. She was born May 31, 1910. Last Friday we celebrated her 99th birthday! She is one amazing woman who has lived an incredible life thus far and always has a positive attitude. We celebrated her birthday at Perche No, her favorite Italian restaurant in Seattle, where they all know her by name. 
Nani and Gran (my mother, Jayne)
Nani had her own birthday concert given by her great-granddaughters, Audrey, Elise, and Margot. They were the hit of the restaurant!
Nani and her great grandaughters (Audrey, Elise, Celeste, Margot, Natalia, and Sacia)
The cousins got their own "private " table! 
The girls LOVE their cousin, Taylor. They tried and tried to get him to open a helium balloon so they could talk like Mickey Mouse. "C'mon Taylor, where's your sense of adventure? Pretty please with a cherry on top?"
Taylor, Andrew and Lauren - more great grandchildren
Nice look, Becky. It's so hard to get a teenager to just smile pretty. 
Aunt Sandrine and Aunt Trish, "say (parmesan) cheese"
Daddy and Natty looking at Nani's pretty birthday cards 
The two youngest grandaughters (Sacia and Natty). They spent most of the evening playing on the stairs with the balloons and being happy just doing that.
Nani and her great grandaughters (Audrey, Elise, Celeste, Margot, Natalia, and Sacia)The cousins got their own "private " table! The girls LOVE their cousin, Taylor. They tried and tried to get him to open a helium balloon so they could talk like Mickey Mouse. "C'mon Taylor, where's your sense of adventure? Pretty please with a cherry on top?"
Taylor, Andrew and Lauren - more great grandchildren Nice look, Becky. It's so hard to get a teenager to just smile pretty. Aunt Sandrine and Aunt Trish, "say (parmesan) cheese" Daddy and Natty looking at Nani's pretty birthday cards The two youngest grandaughters (Sacia and Natty). They spent most of the evening playing on the stairs with the balloons and being happy just doing that.
Tim knows just what he wants for his birthday...you can try and suprise him, but he always guesses his gift. This year he decided to treat himself and us and bought several tickets to the Mariner's baseball games this summer and two tickets to a Seattle Sounders FC soccer game. So far he's taken Becky, Audrey, and I to a Mariner's game. That leaves 2 more games for Celeste and Sophia. I was lucky enough to go to my first professional soccer game which was like nothing I had imagined. It was so different than any other professional sporting event I'd been to. I sort of felt like I was watching a Harry Potter's Quidich game (the fan attire of choice were scarves...even before the game started the recently retired Seattle Seahawks coach walked the red carpet to recieve his special award...a golden scarf.) But then it sort of felt like a college football game (rowdy fan section which chanted all sorts of special cheers only they could understand. Then, I heard a live band and sure enough, the Sounders have their own band...kind of strange.) But the food wasn't quite college hot dogs and popcorn. We enjoyed a great international buffet right before the game. 
Look closer...
We found this fawn in the middle of our road, mom nowhere in sight. We tried to get it to move, but it was too tired. Tim figured it was trying to keep up with mom getting up a hill and just exhausted itself. After flinching at first, eventually Tim was able to pick it up and put it down in the grass. We saw mom waiting in the woods and after 30 min. or more, she finally went back over to her baby. We checked 15 min. later and they were gone. We saw the mom earlier in the week looking pregant, so we think the fawn was just a day or 2 old.
