90 letters from 90 loved ones

This week Grandma Bauer turns 90 years old.  90!  That is quite the accomplishment!

A few weeks ago we decided that this year we needed to do something special, different than just buying her gifts.  I mean, what do you buy a 90 year old who has everything she could ever want?!

We thought about a party but when mom hinted around, grandma was not on board with that idea.

We started contacting people about her big day coming up and asked A LOT of people to write her a letter or mail a birthday card to me or my mom.  We collected cards for days and on her birthday presented her with 90 well wishes!  She spent the next few hours reading these letters from old friends, relatives, people from church, friends of her granddaughters, old neighbors and even staff from the clinic she attends.  She was clearly touched.  Throughout the next week she continued to receive cards and letters mailed to her home and at the end of the week this wonderful lady had received over 118 notes/letters/cards! 

Well at Grandma's today I wanted to capture a few pictures of things around granny's house.
This phone.  The girls are always amazed that it makes noise when they pick it up.  They are confused by the sound of the dial tone and are blown away by the idea of having to dial the numbers to make the call. They always want to call someone and then they are confused why they keep getting people tangled up in the cord. It's sort of funny to me that grandma never got sick of her decorations.  That she never felt the need to just 'be done' with the way something was.  Nope.  These monkeys hung out here for YEARS.  I wonder if she loves them or maybe she doesn't even see them anymore.

This lamp.  I don't even think you could buy a lamp with jewels like this anymore if you wanted to. 

This candy dish.  Where would you even purchase a dish like this? 

These books.  There is a whole wall at Grandma's full of old books.  I am pretty sure that grandma has read each of these multiple times.  She's pretty amazing like that.  She will tell you about one of these books and within minutes, find you the exact book that she was talking about.

This light fixture.  The only one I can ever remember being here.  You can see that this white glass with gold trim was clearly the fad.

 

This couch.  Probably one of my favorites.  The couch has been something that changes.  She has had a few different ones that I can remember, they are usually always floral print.
This couch didn't come with that indent.  Bob Bauer put it there.  Hours and hours of hard work.