June 3-5, 2011 Weekend Part 2

Thank you for all the sweet comments about Megan’s play date at my house. I hope everyone noticed how she used the wire magazine rack for her baby dolls cradle, the fan for her hat stand, and the cherry in her mouth when she was helping with the pineapple-upside-down cake preparation? The reason I’m breaking the last two posts down into 2, is because I wanted to share the 2 days separately. So this post is going to tell a story through the pictures of some of the people who attended my Mom’s 80^th Birthday party. At least the ones that I could either tie down, catch them off guard or those rare people who like to pose for a camerawoman. So here we go:

Of course we were some of the posers.

Bev & Steph are posers too.

My nephew Jared and sister-in-law Linda are just hamming it up.

Not sure whether I was holding down my best friend Debbie of 40 plus years or if we just love to hug each other? I think we both just love to hug:) Ha! Ha!

My nephew Matt and niece Kim are posers on command.

Cousin Brenda was easily convinced to pose with me.

My Uncle Wayne looks like he’s holding his sisters; Mom and Aunt Marthie down.

My cousin Brynda and Aunt Marthie posing with my Mom.

Nieces Angie and Emilee are perfect posers.

My Dad and his brother Oris are posers too.

My Dad and his best friend of over 70 years, Bob Lickey were good posers also. I love to see my Dad’s eyes light up when Bob walks into the room. It’s magic!

My Mom and her good friend Wilford Phares, he was one of her childhood friends and they went to a one room schoolhouse close to where she grew up. I had decided that I would take Joshua’s Karaoke machine to the birthday party and let people talk on the microphone if they wanted to. There were only four people who were able to come forward to talk about my Mom and Wilford was one of them. He talked about how he would ride his bike to school and after school he would give my Mom and her older sister Ruby Lee a ride on his bike; with him pedaling, Ruby Lee on the seat, and my Mom on the handle bars. One time he was pedaling them when he had to slam on his brakes because of a car coming too close to them. When he did my Mom flew off of the handle bars and landed in the dirt and she cried and he told her not to cry because falling was better than getting run over by a car. My Mom decided it was better to fall off of the bike than to get run over by a car, but she still couldn’t help but cry because it hurt. In ending his story he said that he always did like Ruth and he thought she was quite the “looker”, and not to tell his wife Nina as he smiled. I loved the story that he told, and the stories that my Uncle Wayne, Aunt Barbara, and Becky shared with us about their feelings towards my Mom. I always knew she was special to me, but I finally realized how many lives she has touched throughout her years by the stories that I heard last Saturday.

Baby Lily is a natural.

Aunt Barbara and Uncle Oris (caught off guard).

I love this picture of Baby Truman and my brother Terry. Whenever a baby comes into the room he seems to be the first one on the scene.:)

Even my ex-husband was willing to pose with my Dad.

I love this three generation picture.

My Dear Hubby and my Dad are always eager to pose for me.

Jennifer and Keegan were happy to pose so that I could save this moment for Joshua.

It looks like I had to hold my cousin Jeanine down, but I really do love her so much; she is so beautiful inside and out.

Mary, my Mom’s neighbor was wearing the shirt that my Mom made for her a couple of months ago and she was a good poser too. Even though I was exhausted the next day; it was such a good feeling of finally allowing my Mom to have the spotlight. My Mom has always given of herself, not thinking about herself so much. She got married just before her 18^th birthday, had her first child before she turned 19 and then had 4 more children. She was always looking out for all of us and then as we got older and had our own families she had her grandchildren to look after. Then when my Dad became ill she has been taking care of him with not much time for herself. She sure did shine on Saturday and I’m so glad that we could give her the party that she so-o-o deserved. I love you Mom and you deserve to have so many more days just like Saturday. Oh by the way you can find more pictures over on my sister Jackie’s Blog.