02.12.2011: Family Dinner with the Riedmans

Gramma & Papa, Shelly & her boys and their families, and Tina all came over to Mom & Dad's house to visit with Ray & Lois and have dinner together. We had a great time catching up, listening to everyone tell stories about Papa & Ray growing up....listening to Ray keep calling Papa Jim :) I think everyone had a blast!! Papa looked better than we had seen him in a long time...enjoyed socializing with Ray....and thanked Vince and I a million times for bringing his brother out to visit him. He truly had a great time with him.

Still hard to get a picture of Papa without him putting his hand in front of his face. Little did we know...he was ahead of the times....perfecting the paparrazzi pose!!! Now, it is popular! Who knew Papa was so trendy! :)

A normal pic too...

After dinner, we went in the house and watched some old movies that Shelly had brought of their trip out to North Dakota to visit Ray & Lois, Father John, MaryAnn & Kent, Gramma Lynne...and Gramma & Papa's old homes they grew up in. They went to both of their childhood farms....saw where the old schoolhouse was....the old family cemetery....where Papa had to walk 10 miles in the snow uphill both ways to get to school, etc.....it was pretty cool watching the videos. Someday I would like to go back to ND to see some of our family history there. I love history anyways and am soooo interested in learning more about my own. Someday....