Dad's seventieth Birthday Weekend • Kath Eats

We celebrated my dad’s seventieth birthday in Charlottesville this weekend. Right here is the recap of his basketball themed social gathering, mountain climbing journey, and extra.

Household photographs by Cramer Photograph!

Completely happy seventieth Dad!

This previous weekend the Youthful fam got here up for a go to and we celebrated dad’s seventieth birthday with all of his favourite issues: a basketball pizza social gathering (full with a Duke cake!), Chinese language meals, mountain climbing, a winery afternoon, and his grandchildren throughout him. We had Sarah Cramer Shields come take household portraits to recollect the weekend by. A priceless reminiscence! I’ll be sharing numerous the pics later this week.

Dad wasn’t the one one getting presents upon arrival – Gus bought a brand new lobster from Grammie!

Friday: Dinner at Peter Chang’s

On Friday everybody drove up, and we piled into our automotive to move to Peter Chang’s for dinner. Dad LOVES Chinese language meals, so we shocked him with this dinner by telling him we have been going to a really costly farm-to-table restaurant. He was very happy!

Thomas went to see a few birthday dessert, and so they got here out with a clementine as the best choice. Our server stated it represented good luck!

Saturday Hike

Saturday morning we fueled up for a hike!

Ellen, an avid hiker, was our information and helped us select a path. Whereas we’d have preferred to drive as much as the mountains, the Ragged Mountain path was our choose for its proximity to downtown and scenic reservoir lake. It was gorgeous! Thanks Ellen for serving to arrange!

The little children stayed again with mother on the home, and we hiked about 4 miles in excellent climate.

Sandwiches from Bellair

On our manner residence we picked up an order of Bellair Market sandwiches. At all times so good after a hike!

Women Afternoon

The boys had plans for golf within the morning, so the women headed out for some procuring! We went to J Crew Manufacturing unit the place I bought this gown.

After which to make use of our time properly, we sipped coffees and teas at Greenberry’s!

Be aware the position of tattoos the day earlier than household photographs 😉

Downtime <3

Basketball Pizza Celebration

On Saturday night time we had a basketball themed pizza social gathering for dad.

Whereas UVA may need been the beer theme, the cake theme was only for dad! Caked Up Cville made us an epic Duke cake! All of us raved about how excellent it was for dad who was a Duke bball season ticket holder my complete childhood. Should you didn’t know, my mother and father met at Duke.

It was a slam dunk!

We had a number of video games deliberate: Cliff Trivia, Title That Tune from his favourite songs, and charades. He additionally was gifted many tins of blended nuts – his favourite!