My Daddy turned 80 ...

On May 31st my Daddy turned 80 years old

so amazing....especially after all of his health issues
the past 2 years!
and of course, as I have stated before, he's the best daddy
in the world!!

and to think, I'm only 23 years away from turning 80 myself!

ohh, let's just not think about that!!

Dad thought he was going out to dinner with

Mom and their neighbor Bryant

but instead, he walked into the restaurant and we all

yelled SURPRISE!!

you can tell in the first picture he wasn't quite sure what

was going on....

but then he realized it was all of his kids, grandkids

and great grandkids! And for my Daddy, there's no better

way to spend your birthday than with all of his kids!

we had dinner, cake, talked, laughed and had fun

plus lots of excitement as my niece Mallory is

getting married THIS SATURDAY!!

My niece Alison is one of the bridesmaids and look

at her ... on crutches a week before the wedding!!

She goes to the ortho dr on Wed so hopefully,

she'll be better soon. It would be a shame to not be able

to dance at the wedding!

and baby Declan was there.....

last weekend he was at his great grandmothers 80th birthday

party on his daddy's side of the family

and now his great grandfathers 80th!

below is Maddox and Gabe.....I wanted to take their picture

together but Gabe wasn't really wanting to do that

haha....look at Maddox. He has his hands on his hips

as if to say "well, why not"

But when Nicole suggested they make funny faces for me

they were more than willing........

and if you're wondering why all of my pictures are in black and white

well, here's why.......they were really, really bad

the lighting was terrible and nothing I did in photoshop could fix it

plus they are not very in focus. I think I'm in dire need of camera

and lens cleaning. So I just went with b&w and softened them up a little

later........