Happy Birthday Rana!

Today is my sister-in-law's birthday.  Happy Birthday Rana!  She turned 25...(many years ago).  For Dad's birthday, Friday night, Rana fixed his favorite Syrian dinner.  I have no idea how to spell it.  We'll call it chicken, hamburger, rice, peas & carrots.  Next, Dad opened his presents..

It was easy for him because he had a couple of very good helpers:

Rana even made bought a cake for Dad

Daniel had a piece.  Can you tell?  He loved it. 

He's very happy that it is Papaw's birthday

I think Dad liked his cake 

Hey, where's mom?  She gets to be the center of attention next week - Mother's Day. 

Let me find a picture of Rana

And finally, Scott

Hey....there's no picture of Kevin.  Wait, here he is....

Last night, we all went to the Olive Garden for Rana's birthday.  We had a great time.  Before we went, we decided to set up the tripod and take some family photos.  We didn't have any photos of the entire family!  Well, I can say that some of the photos didn't turn out great because of operator error.  We didn't have the tripod all of the way up.  Here are just a few....

We actually took a lot of pictures but I think three is probably more than enough for one post!  Why we have never done this before, I don't know.

This afternoon we had some sort of strawberry cake for Rana and she opened her presents.  My apologies to Rana for not bringing my camera!!!  Rana is probably very glad as she isn't a fan of seeing herself in pictures.  :-)    Frankly, family birthweek has worn me out!

OK....next post I will tell you about the bird that put a nest in my flower pot.  Have a great day!