ANDREW FAMILY REUNION 2011 part 1

We were at the grocery store yesterday and Clayton saw a BOX of Malt 'o Meal cereal.

BOX

not a BAG

but a

BOX

He (Clayton) then said something to the effect that they (Malt 'O Meal) can't make BOXED cereal, because how would the penny pinching families afford it?

So...

Is buying BOXED cereal a status thing???

Growing up we always had the bagged cereal. 

The imitation stuff.

The kind where they tweaked the names a bit so they didn't get caught in a lawsuit over patent issues.

You know the kinds

TOOTI FRUITIES

MARSHMALLOW MATEY'S

CRISPY RICE

TOASTY O'S

COCO ROOS

MINI SPOONERS

They were once in my home and yours

Only on special occasions did we have the hallowed BOXED cereal

Birthday's

and

Sleepovers at Gram's

She always had my favorites (back in the day...this is an ever changing list)

HONEY-COMBS

APPLE JACKS

LIFE

Oh how we always fought for the prize at the bottom of the box

this was before the "send in your UPC and $10 to clame your prize" days

Pretty sure I never got the prized.

Pretty sure I was picked on by the others.

kidding...

Sleepovers at Gram Andrew's were the best.

On Sunday nights we always begged and pleaded with the 'rents to let us stay over

Grandma had fun games, big beds, movies, treats, and boxed cereal

Who wouldn't want to sleepover with all that???

Well a few weeks ago we celebrated this

Boxed Cereal Grandma's

85th Birthday 





I love this picture of her and Clayton

A surprise party was planned in her honor

It felt more like a reception for the Royals

So many people

Grandma ate it up

I ate a lot of cookies and listened to Clayton tease Brandon

occasionally I would move to a different seat just so I could walk by the cookie table and nab me another one.

At times I would be approached by an someone who would talk to me like they had known me for years.

I was confused...

until they called me Kayleen

That was when I knew that they thought I was MY MOM

(mistaking me for my mom happened quite a few times)

This would offend me if my mom weren't so good looking.

Truly a compliment in its highest form

Here's to Grandmas and her 85 years

THANKS FOR...

* the sleepovers

* poached eggs

* cereal in all its varieties

* making me go to bed with clean feet

* providing us with plentiful amounts of dress up clothes

* letting us sneak into your house and borrow (aka steal) your goodies

* having a trampoline for us to bounce on

* letting us come and play on the Nintendo when our parents wouldn't let us have one

* Sunday dinners

*Easter egg hunts

* enduring our countless parades and Olympics that we put on and planed ourselves

* having an awesome yard for night games

* planting raspberries that we could eat (or steal...we were good at that)

* teaching us all sorts of games like Flinch, Phase 10, Quiddler, Rack-O, etc

* putting pictures in your photo books so that we can look at them every time we come over

* supporting us in our sporting events

* being my CTR teacher

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA

Here's to 85 more!