Our Illinois Trip

Jerry, Toby and I flew to Moline, Illinois for my grandma's 100th birthday party. We flew up on Toby's 16th birthday. I took Toby by the DMV to get his first driver's license. He has had his permit since he was 15 years old and attended driver's ed and then got some practice until he could be on the road alone at 16.

All my sisters and some of their families were able to come in for Grandma's birthday. We came from Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, New Mexico and Arizona.

On Saturday Toby and I left Jerry at the hotel to watch the BUSCH race and went over to Morrison, Illinois to visit with one of my friends since we were very young. We had lived down the street from one another when we lived in Moline. Tina and I started Kindergarten together and we stayed in touch throughout the years after we moved to Deming, New Mexico and then I married and moved around. Tina had just recently moved back home from Utah.

We celebrated Grandma's 100th birthday on Sunday. There were a lot of family and friends in attendance.

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Alex, Mert, Eliajah, Carol	Bernie, Jessa and Tom	Toby, Damien, Tammy, Justice and Liberty in the background	Tracy and Debby
Alex, Hannah, Justice	Tina and Beth at Tina's house	Morrison, Illinois is Ronald Reagan's birthplace	Morrison, Illinois is Ronald Reagan's birthplace
International Harvestor where my dad worked when we lived in Illinois, it's being torn down now	Mississippi River	Mississippi River	Country Style Ice Cream, Toby and I made a stop for ice cream our favorite ice cream
Vernon, Janette, Grandma, Mom and Edward	Birthday Party	Birthday Party	Debby, Becky, Mert, Beth and Mom
Debby, Damien, Tracy, Hannah, Mom and Grandma (five generations)	Beth, Toby, Mom and Grandma (four generations)	Edward, Vernon, Grandma, Mom and Janette	Gene, Beth, Debby, Mert, Carol, Sandy, Edward, Mom, Grandma, Janette, and Vernon

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