Although Dad’s Birthday is actually tomorrow, today the family celebrated at the Sizzler, one of Dad’s favorite places to eat (if not the favorite). We drove down to help celebrate and to take pictures of the event. In this first photo, Mom and Dad are enjoying their meal – notice the necklace around Dad’s neck – each blue bubble has rolled-up money inside. It looked funny and sort of neat at the same time.
A bunch of Dad’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were there. Aunt Verna loves the babies and, of course, I wanted to hold baby Drake. He’s the most recently-born great-grandchild. He sat with me for about ten or fifteen minutes before getting a little fussy and wanting to go to someone he knows a little better. Drake and Jayden, his older brother came with their Mom Tracy and older sister Vanessa.
Also at the gathering were the kids, in-laws and friends. Carol and Rod brought Tony (who recently broke his hand – ow!), Fred, Sherry, Matt and Kathy were there as well. Also seen are Brenda and Gene, Liz, JJ and Sara, Diane, Adriana, Gail and Billie.
It was nice to see everybody there helping Dad to celebrate his 78th birthday.
