The Pieper Picnic

I love days like today!

Beautiful weather, great company and lots of fun!

Today was our annual "Pieper Picnic."

It's a Sunday in July to celebrate my Grandpa and Grandma's Birthdays.

It's the first one since my Grandma passed away and I think the whole family felt a small missing piece today, but we also felt her presence.

Today is my Grandpa Pieper's 90th Birthday!!!

He is such a great man and has taught us all so much.

He does not like to have his picture taken, but he made a few exceptions for me today.

Grandpa and his cake

Grandpa, Kate, Brooklyn and Ava

Aunt Kathy and Grandpa

Today we also celebrated my Great-Aunt Sally's Birthday.  She turns 80 this year.  She is my Grandma Pieper's sister.  Sally is married to Clem, who is my Grandpa's brother.  Because of the closeness of the 2 families, they joined us today for our Pieper Picnic.  They brought with some interesting games.  One of them was...

Human Foosball!

I've never seen that before and was thoroughly entertained!

We also had most of my Grandpa and Grandma's siblings join us!  What better reason for a family reunion than some birthdays...especially on such a gorgeous day!  We got lucky!

There were also a ton of babies around.  So many that I felt a need to label mine :)

Here are a few of the other little ones...

Evan

Brooklyn and Wyatt

Travis

Tony and Brooklyn

And finally some random pictures from today...

Michael and Auntie Kathy

The chefs - Dad and Tony

Michael chillin in his new sunglasses

Great-Aunt Sally with her newest great-grandson

Thanks to my sister for taking an impromtu family pic of us!

Thanks to everyone for a great day!

Oh, hey!

Did you also know that today is Parent's Day?!?!?

Happy Parent's Day to all the parents and parent's-to-be out there!