90 YEARS!!

We had a 90th birthday party for my Daddy last week. His real birthday was yesterday, but we had to do the party when all of the family could get into town. We had a spectacular day! We also had a dinner last night. I made a big dinner for the family. All four of us (siblings)were there. We each had one of our children in attendance. Although everyone could not make it, Daddy had a good time. I made another cake, too. I also made a cake for Kate, whose birthday is today!


I am late posting this blog, because I did not have the pictures to use. All of my cameras bit the dust a long time ago, so I borrowed my daughter's camera for the day. My Iphone camera just doesn't do justice to many images these days. Anywho, I am posting the party this week in honor of my Daddy.

One of Daddy's nieces made the trip down from North Georgia to attend the party, and she brought her whole family! All of my Savannah cousins were there, also, so we had a great big crowd.

I made a three tiered cake and turned it into a mountain. The mountain leaned a bit, and I was afraid that it was going to fall over! I put some dowel rods inside of it, and the whole thing stayed together. It looked kind of like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but it never fell over! I had two fishermen on it. I actually thought that the one on top was a hunter with a bow and arrow, but it was a fisherman. HA! My eyes are a bit feeble these days. The fly fisherman was on the bottom layer. He had a fly rod with fishing line! I had fish all over the cake placed to look like they were in a stream going down the moutain. The "hunter/fisherman" was on top with a moose and a pine tree.

I also had a neat little sign that said, "Super Dad" that was written in tools. Daddy is a great Mr. Fixit guy, so I thought that the tool sign was really appropriate. Daddy is from the Georgia Mountains, and that is why I made a mountain with a stream going all the way down.

My brother fried the fish, along with several "helpers"! HA!

We had the party at my daughter's house.

We used the lot next to her house for our party, which is right by the playground and pool for their community. Although no one went into the pool, the kids enjoyed the playground and big yard.

We had horseshoes and ping pong, too.

We called this a BYOC party - bring your own chair - and everyone sat around talking and having a great time of fellowship and fun. It was a great day!!

We were all very proud to be able to celebrate the 90th birthday of such an awesome man and father. He is also a war hero, from World War II. Daddy was a medic in the war, and he received the Bronze Star for going out under fire to rescue soldiers by bringing them out of the line of fire to receive medical attention.

Daddy is a wonderful person. He is extremely honest, to a fault some may say. He has always been hard working and honorable. I am proud to say that he passed those qualities on to our whole family. Daddy was raised in extreme poverty up in the North Georgia Mountains. He worked very hard from the time he was a young teenager, in order to help feed his family. There are any tales of hardship that he could tell, but he has come out of it all as a strong, sincere, honest, and awesome man of integrity and honor.



I cannot say enough positive things about my Daddy. I love him very much, and I am very proud to be called his daughter!!