Great Granny's 90th Birthday Celebration

Every spring, we travel to Florida to visit Great Granny Kohls and Great Grandma Wanda in the Villages. This year was particularly special because we were celebrating Granny's 90th birthday with a Surprise party with her family and friends. Her family traveled from Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, and California to be there. She was utterly shocked and the surprise turned into a great weekend of family fun events.




We spent days swimming with Grandpa and Grammy Liz at their hotel pool and with Aunt Colleen at the community pools.



The kids enjoyed Easter Egg Hunts at Granny's and we enjoyed Grandpa's special Spaghetti and Meatball dinner, courtesy of Aunt Carol.



Several of us ventured over to the Crystal River to go swimming and snorkeling with the gentle Manatees. The kids even got to touch them. Ron and Trisha were also fortunate to witness one of the last space shuttle launches in the early morning hours.




On this vacation, we played tennis for the first time as a family. We all brought our rackets and hit balls together. Ron and Trisha also took on the young guns of cousin Cody and his friend Josh for a set. In a close match that went until sunset, we took the set in a tiebreaker! They are anxiously waiting a rematch.



Ron helped begin Trisha's birthday celebration with a day of golf with Uncle Al and Uncle Bud. It was a fun day. Ron's game was on fire and Trisha hit the ball solidly but has some work to get her game back together. Still a fun day of golf and sun!



And this entry, wouldn't be complete if we didn't capture the full night adventure Ron had with the boys trying to unplug Granny's toilet. Here they are arming up with supplies.



We ended the trip with a day at Disney's Blizzard Beach. It was our first time to a Disney Water Park. The kids had a blast on the water slides and the flying fox.