Dad's 60th

My Dad turned 60 this weekend, and my step-mom gave him a wonderful birthday party. It was really special because 3 of his sisters were able to come - one from Kentucky and 2 from Pennsylvania.


On Friday night, Dad was completely surprised with the arrival of his sisters at the restaurant...this was taken by Sherri. I'm so glad she got it on film...

We were there for the events Saturday











THE CAKE

Hilarious - this cake was low fat, low carb, high fiber and sweetened only with fruit juices. Emily got the cake and long sparkler candles for it. At candle number 58 or so, the wax paper under the cake caught fire from one of the leaning candles.

Here, Emily is pouring Coke on the wax paper trying to quench the flames! Sorry her face is blurry, she was moving pretty quickly to keep from catching the table on fire!

Thankfully, the fire didn't get far and Dad blew and blew and finally got the candles blown out. There were A LOT of candles!

MIA AND THE KIDS

Aunt Peggy brought her beautiful Samoya (is that right, maybe it's Semoyan?? I don't really know...), Mia, with her to visit. She is like a HUGE teddy bear and my kids could not get enough of her. They laid with her and followed her the whole day and into the night.

THE KIDS AND PAPPY

Pappy helped Julian finish a castle he and Evan had started earlier in the day.

Poor Dad, he wanted to visit with his family, but Julian and Kathryn are used to being the center of attention when they are with Pappy, and they wouldn't leave him alone. That's the hard part of being such a good Pappy, I guess.

And as always, this is how it ended:

Julian actually made it the whole way home awake - and we didn't get home until about 11 pm, so pretty impressive. Kathryn only made it about 35 minutes. It was a really good day.