I guess in most families, a birthday celebration is straight-forward – there’s cake, there’s ice cream, there’s singing – people go home.
Well, in my family a birthday celebration includes all of the above, but also has some worms, crocheting, porch painting and mulch mixed in.
Wednesday is Jim’s 66th birthday but we all gathered today to celebrate. There were people there I haven’t seen in a long, long time.
April is a big birthday month for us. Jim and BC are on the 25th, Jackie is the 22nd, and my mom’s was the 24th.
We took lots of pix, including some of those family group things that everyone always intends to do but we never get around to.
I have a few pix over the years of my with both my brothers, including one we took last year, but they are few and far between. There’s so much age difference in us that they were grown, married and out of the house before I was born. Obviously, that doesn’t offer the normal amount of opportunity for pix.
There was much outdoor work going on today – the porch was painted and Wayne, his daughter, Chrissy, and her boyfriend, Joe, were working hard. They planted, put down black cloth and mulched.
I think I’d like Chrissy and Joe to come stay with me for awhile – they’re both hard workers – my house could dramatically improve in a short amount of time.
Chrissy is a hard worker…
The little guy there with Joe is Alex, Angie’s son. Angie is Wayne’s oldest daughter. Yeah, I know, you need a scorecard.
Alex found a a little friend…
He wanted to share with his mom, and his grandpa, Wayne…
Meanwhile, indoors, Mary Ann was helping Joyce with some crochet questions. Does this look like the student at the feet of the master? It kinda is… Mary Ann is a crocheter extraordinaire.
Leah, however, is having none of it and looks on from afar…
Overall people seemed to be having fun…
Johnny and I would like to make it very clear that we did the dishes!
Hopefully Jim had a good time. The rest of us did, I’m sure.
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