Family Barbecue & Laura'a First Birthday

Soon after we moved into our house in Minot, we had a big barbecue in our backyard. Dave and his brother had gone to get a load of sand to put inside a large tractor tire and the kids were having fun in the sandbox. Dave's parents and both brothers and their wives, his sister and her husband and a few little ones were there. We cooked up some hamburgers and hot dogs and had all the trimmings. A few days later, his sister Sandy and I took Dave to the airport in Bismark to fly out on his first plane to go to Viet Nam.

A couple of weeks after that we had a little birthday party for Laura. Her grandma and grandpa, Rick and Sandy and Ricky came over to the house and we had a hot dog lunch and some cake and ice cream. I made Laura her own little cake and she sure went to town on it, she squished it up real good. It was a strawberry cake and pink icing and strawberry ice cream. She liked the balloons. She kept squeezing and biting them and thought that was funny.