Happy Birthday Stephen!

We celebrated Stephen's birthday today. We started out with gift-opening before church. This made us a little late for church, but it was the only time the whole family would all be together.

After church, Stephen, Donald, and Tess went to a Gun Show at the Lions Club. I attempted to get Alicia to take her nap by driving several miles up the Eagle River valley and back. But she wasn't falling for it this time. She didn't end up falling asleep until after we went out for a late lunch/early supper at Humpy's in downtown Anchorage.

That's the first time we'd ever been there and I'm sure we'll go again. We watched the Pats play the Colts on big screen TV's and ate some scrumptious halibut fish & chips and chicken fettucini. Good stuff! They brought over a splendid brownie sundae for Stephen's birthday dessert with 4 spoons. We'd dropped Donald off for work in Eagle River before heading to Anchorage.

In a few minutes, after we recuperate from the Humpy's meal, we'll dive in to the birthday cake and ice cream here at the house. (We'll wait till Alicia wakes up from her late nap!)

There's basically no snow or ice to be found on the ground here in our area of Alaska. The high mountains are covered, of course, but not the human habitations.... It's definitely supposed to have snowed and stayed by this time of year! We went to the zoo for Stephen's birthday last year and there was several inches of snow on the ground and coating the trees... Here's a reminiscent photo from that adventure...