Grandma Gutke's Birthday

Last week my Grandma turned 85. To celebrate, we had a big dinner at the Bluebird in Logan. We had quite a lot of family there, missing only those that live too far to make the trip. We had a good time celebrating with Grandma, and she did too, as you can see. My Grandma is doing great at 85. She is in great health, but unfortunately broke her wrist a few weeks ago. This put a crimp in our plans for her birthday, but we pressed forward. My Grandma has wanted her entire life to learn to play the accordion. Not long ago, we saw an article in the paper about a girl in Logan who teaches accordion lessons, so my sister thought it would be fun to have her come to the party and play and then afterwards we'd tell Grandma that we were going to pay for her to have accordion lessons. Sadly, her wrist isn't cooperating, but as soon as she's fully recovered she'll be able to start. Here's a photo of the accordion player.Oddly enough, it turns out I had a class with her at BYU. We were both in Paul Kerry's Jewish History class and I actually remember her bringing her accordion to class one day and playing us a Jewish folk song. She played three songs for us, including our family anthem, "I Am a Little Gypsy Girl." To see evidence of our extremely lame family, view the video below. Try to ignore my blaringly loud, awful voice, the camera is right in front of my face. I probably shouldn't even post this, but I thought it might be fun for everyone to see how dorky we are.

We sing this song every Christmas Eve at our family party. This is only the final chorus, where we declare that we are the Gutke's and will forever reside in Cache Valley. :-)
All in all, it was a good party despite my neice Megan's complaints. She said "What kind of a birthday party is this? There's no balloons, no streamers..." I can't blame her, we didn't even have cake! Although there was pie. Here's me and the birthday girl.Happy Birthday Grandma! We love you!