The Johnston's: Bill and Parker's Birthday

Taylor's dad had a birthday Sunday! We celebrated by meeting at Chris and Dominique's new place at 3:30pm to play games and have some dinner. Taylor's sister made a pork roast, potatoes and carrots while we brought salad and green beans (beans for Taylor), Parker brought rolls and Heidi brought yummy desserts!

To start off the party, Bill opened a gift from Heidi........

Wits and Wagers!

Obviously a setup, so we'd have a game to play: Bill opened his gift of Wits and Wagers! Bill and Heidi had played before and enjoyed it so much that Heidi bought it for Bill. While dinner was cooking we all played! No pics, but a pretty fun game!

This gathering was also to celebrate Parker's birthday, which is April 21st. He didn't know we were celebrating his birthday also, so was pleasantly surprised to have a dessert and gifts for him as well! We did all of the gift opening prior to dinner, to kill time while dinner finished.

PK opening his gift from Chris Dom and Haylee

"A tackle box!" he excitedly said....

But then realized it was a filing system for his business -

Subway GC in the card

What is in the GIANT bag?!

Sun Chips, Gatorade and a Subway GC

While the family helped Chris and Dom move into their new place, Parker randomly had a ton of Gatorade in the trunk of his car. He explained that he regularly visits Subway and hates to spend the extra money on a drink - so Taylor and I thought of buying him even more Gatorade and Chips, to save him moola when he hits up Subway. He was pretty stoked!

More gifts from Heidi to Bill

Nice Socks!

Bill is quite the bowler these days, so Heidi purchased him a gift card to pick out new bowling shoes and to go along with the shoes she bought him nice warm SOCKS! He was pretty excited. My guess is, he's already gone and picked out the new shoes! :-)

Card from the parents

Must have been good! He never did say what was in the card...but he was appreciative!

Gift Card to Cabella's from Chris Dom and Haylee

Stereo Ear Protection for shooting practice

Heidi shared with us that Bill has been shooting a lot more lately, so Taylor decided to research some good ear protection for his Dad, which still allows him to chat with those around him and hear what's going on, but once the sound of the shots fired get above 85 decibels, the headphones shut off and serve as regular ear protection. Taylor shared with Dom the idea of shooting "stuff" so decided to purchase the GC so Bill could pick out other items related to his shooting hobby. Parker picked up some ammo for Bill: Now he just has to decide if he wants to go shooting or bowling!

Apple Pie and Vanilla Ice Cream for Parker

Special Raspberry dessert from Farmers Market for Bill

Bill and Heidi had gone to market earlier in the weekend and Bill picked out this raspberry strudel dessert for his bday cake instead of his favorite Boston cream pie. However, Bill thought of the fact that both desserts would then have fruit in them and Taylor doesn't eat fruit- that his parents picked Taylor up a special treat just for him....

Half Chocolate Half Maple bar doughnut

Crazy Father Son Pic

Before everyone headed home for the evening, we got a few pics...some crazy, some 1/2 serious. I apologize for the poor quality of some of the pics, I think I ruined Taylor's camera while taking pictures during some of home improvement projects.