Another Birthday Celebration

Lukey and Kenzie's birthday is just a couple of weeks after Ellie and Gee's birthday so it is more like a birthday month!

We picked up Lukey and Kenzie from their dad's house (he lives very near us while Liza lives an hour away so we saved her a couple of hours of traveling) and we spent the afternoon with them before we headed to Sarducci's for their usual birthday dinner.  There were no presents this year other than this nice meal since they will be joining us on our upcoming cross-country Amtrak journey.  We had to talk about clothes, packing and measure them for clothes so it was good we had some time to spend with them before heading to Sarducci's.  

This annual birthday dinner at Sarducci's is always nice though!  

We picked up Pop on the way to the restaurant...

I always forget just how dark this restaurant is until I attempt to shoot some photos...  I believe this is the darkest restaurant we have ever visited!  I'm still learning about this new Sony camera of mine too so the darkness of the restaurant pointed out that I'm still on the upward climb of this learning curve.  In hindsight, I should have changed some of my camera settings but I now know what to do in situations like this with this particular camera and I got some nice photos of the nice dinner nevertheless.