My Grandma Beil turned 86 on December 3rd! She is amazing for how old she is! My mom planned this suprise for everyone to come that weekend to Pheonix because my Grandma was going to be there. She traveled all the way from California with my Uncle Jim's family. We had a big birthday lunch for her! She got to wear a birthday crown too! lol!
Here is her beautiful cake! The numbers are backwards because Dawson took the picture from behind. BUT- he took all the pictures at the party! I was lucky to have him so photo happy otherwise I wouldn't have had any pics!
Here's my mom! She was so happy just to be with her mom!
We went to see where my Grandpa was buried. We changed the flowers out and added a flag this year. It was neat to see his headstone, and my aunt Lela's and Uncle Carlton's headstones as well.
My Grandma putting the flag in.
Here is her beautiful cake! The numbers are backwards because Dawson took the picture from behind. BUT- he took all the pictures at the party! I was lucky to have him so photo happy otherwise I wouldn't have had any pics!
Here's my mom! She was so happy just to be with her mom!
We went to see where my Grandpa was buried. We changed the flowers out and added a flag this year. It was neat to see his headstone, and my aunt Lela's and Uncle Carlton's headstones as well.
My Grandma putting the flag in.
Here is Grandma and Cousin Casey (the one from France).
Here is his headstone.
Dawson snagged the camera again, so I thought i'd add this picture since I rarely have pics of me on here). lol!
My cousin Casey came all the way from France! We last saw him 2 years ago, so this was a huge suprise for everyone, especially Grandma. Grandma was speechless when he walked in and she started to get tears in her eyes. My Grandma only had one brother, who adopted 2 sons. So this is one of the two nephews, with my Aunt Sonja, and sister Kortni. 
I missed pictures of Dawson touching the headstone. He was rubbing the stars around the vase; it was so cute! He wanted to run around instead of look at the headstone afterwards, so hence why he's mad in this picture. :-)
I missed pictures of Dawson touching the headstone. He was rubbing the stars around the vase; it was so cute! He wanted to run around instead of look at the headstone afterwards, so hence why he's mad in this picture. :-)
We had so much fun with all of the family. Dawson just played and played with all of the cousins. We had a little rain hit us, but it was so much warmer than the snow in Cedar city. Dawson was shy with Grandma Beil at first, but he warmed up quick when he found out it was her birthday. He loves birthdays, so he couldn't get enough of the birthday candles (fire), and the balloons. After that, he was more than happy to give her hugs.
