Celebrate, Celebrate, Dance to the Music

It was my favorite niece's 8th birthday this weekend, so we all went out to the zoo yesterday. We had a great time (even though we didn't get to see the dolphin show, and the meerkats were gone due to a recent potential rabies incident). It was a beautiful day to be outside, and I hadn't been to the zoo in ages.

My favorite nephew looking for "Dori" and "Neemo":


The birthday girl and Grandma walking back to the car after fun at the zoo:


We had a small party afterwards at great-grandma's.
The birthday girl and Radley:



Here's Uncle Neek with the kids - a freeze-frame of the party chaos:

The kids had a good time running around in the party room, but I think they wore a few of the adults out (Papa John?!?)
We were also celebrating Uncle Neek's birthday, which is actually today - Happy Birthday, Uncle Neek!

And we were celebrating our anniversary. Today is our 7th anniversary - I can't believe it has been 7 years! Many of you know that each year to celebrate we purchase a piece of art together. Here is our anniversary piece for this year.

We got this on Saturday when we went out to a local art fair with Grandpa Bob and Grandma Gloria. It was taken by a photographer from Red Wing. The frame is a negative holder for an old box camera. Right before we purchased it, we discovered it was taken on HWY 5!