The Wittmer's: Happy 80th Birthday Grandpa!

Birthday Boy with his Great Grandson, Colton!

Sunday my Grandpa turned 80!!!!

We celebrated by doing something different this year. Grams has been wanting to plan something special for over a year but Gramps kept saying not a big party...Just us! Well that is what we did ~ at Campo di Bocce in Livermore. We played Bocce for an hour and a half, while eating yummy pizza and enjoying a drink. Then we had a really nice lunch/dinner right there at Campo di Bocce. It was great to get all of us together (Kev even came home for the weekend from LMU) It was a very special day! Grandpa even got a little chocked up when he gave a thank you toast at dinner.

It was a great day. I am so thankful to have a healthy grandpa who still enjoys traveling, golf, his mens clubs, fishing, gardening, handyman work...and even making toys or a toy box for his great grand kids!

All this after his scary fall in Little Yosemite three years ago. Before the fall they hiked Vernal Falls, Nevada Falls & back into Little Yosemite to Fish. Grandpa was with Eric & Mike ~thank God~ when he fell and had to be airlifted by helicopter out of the back country. It was crazy scary...I'll never forget watching him dangle by a rope off the bottom of the helicopter with Half dome in the backround. He dislocated his ankle and fractured the bottom of his tibia. We didn't know if he would ever be able to walk regularly again, yet alone be able to resume all his normal activities! We were so lucky and feel very fortunate he had a very speedy recovery and rarely notice the injury today.

I love you Gramps! Happy 80th Birthday! Here is to many more!!!

Here are some pictures from his birthday party...