Papa Is 60!

Labor Day weekend was spent at the farm! We were have a Farm Tour/60th Birthday Party for my Dad. Luckily my husband's job switched on Wednesday from nights to days. This way we had the opportunity to leave St Croix closer to 5pm rather than 10pm from Minneapolis. This makes it a tad better for traveling with young children. Madi never slept on the way down, in fact I do not think she ever shut up either...she was either singing or talking...thankfully no crying. Kacy napped from Amery to Baldwin....not far either. We ate in Black River Falls, and hit the farm by 8:30.

Saturday was spent preparing for Sunday...I did a lot of cooking, and Mark did a lot of hauling. A tent was put up, picnic tables were brought in, bales were hauled for seating, coolers were set up.....and the list goes on and on....oh yeah the girls had to pick flowers for table decorations and Bret had to wash the golf cart, that was a mode of transportation for the day.

Sunday was the party, the weather was great! Everyone enjoyed the tour and the food. They did have flies to contend with, but that is what happens at the farm. Everyone seemed to have a good time and we seemed to do well with the amount of food. There was not too much left over! It helps that some people ate twice!

Everyone say Cake!

Madi is testing Papa's frosting at this point!

The whole darn family!

Heather and Dan

Dan and Grandma G

I think Fuzz maybe checking out the beer too.

Jack, Jason and Sara Hohenstien

Jack worked over the farm that day, he really wanted to

take a tractor home. Jack ran from one thing to another, he was very busy!

I know Sara hates this but it was great to see him have a melt down...it helps us all realize that our kids are normal and it is just not just ours children who throw tantrums.

Grandma and Dad with Leo and Sue

This is Dad's old college roommate.

Yes this is Mark's daughter with a can of beer.

It is empty...and was before she got it!

I did not see Kacy for much of the day. She and Lizzie played and played and played!

In fact when it was time for Liz to go home Kacy got very sad and said she did not want her to go home, because "I so not want play with her." Referring to her sister who was standing near by!

All in all we figure there were about 125 people at the farm today. It was a fun day and well worth the time and effort it took to make it happen. It is nice that we did it over three day weekend, this gave us and extra day to take things down and kind of regroup before we headed back into the work week.

Now we can start planning for Nana's 60th next year!