Well considering we got a foot of snow Saturday, Makita's 40th was quite a success. There were a lot of people that braved the snowy drive and showed up to celebrate. 
The biggest surprise was when my sister Lorrie and our friend Starla (aka: Stormy) showed up from Wyoming. Well actually they had driven four hours from Casper to Denver and then flown from Denver into Minneapolis on Friday. Then they went down to Benson to see my brother. Then on Saturday during the big old blizzard they drove up to Brainerd from Benson (under normal conditions a 3 hour drive). So we were pretty surprised to see them to say the least.
As the night progressed there were many rounds of shots. Last count Makita had 10 shots of various kinds. Here's his second of Patron tequila.
Here we have Jessi and Mike helping Makita out with a little Village People YMCA (missing the A and spelled backwards) .
Ahhhhh.....a shot of Bushmills Irish Whiskey (a gift from Lorrie and Brad) for some of the Irishmen in the group.
Grandma Piggy turned into quite the dart player.
Lorrie and Kimkay, water and soda, designated drivers.
Shep, Makita and Lorrie doing a shot of Patron (hey wait...wasn't Lorrie a driver?).
A round of Scoobie Snacks for the whole bar! Cheers! (hey wait, do I see those two drivers?)
You can't have a party at Shep's without a big Elbow initiation. Here's a bunch of folks that got their Elbow cards (now up over 13,000 members) and threw their dollars on the ceiling to help pay for the Elbow Convention this next August.
Shirley played the Accordion for us. That was a big huge treat. She played at Makita's 21st birthday too but he didn't hear it...cause he was puking in the dumpster at the time.
Daughter Tonya, Daughter in-law Jessi and friend Robin. You can see the girls are having fun.
Oh no... look who showed up. I do believe it's the Grim Reaper. Happy Birthday Makita!
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Where the hell was I when that grim guy showed up? Wow!
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