Mom's Birthday

My mom turned 60 this year so we decided to have a party for her. We held it at my grandma's house and invited the whole family. Danelle did a great job on the decorations and everything looked really nice. We had a video made (thank you Troy and Rhonda for all the help on that) so we went to my moms house before the party to watch it. It had pictures of her growing up, each of our family's had pictures and then pictures of all of us. It was awesome and made her cry. Then it was time for the party. Brooke and Chelsey...they called themselves gangsters all day because of their sunglasses...they look more Hollywood than gangsters though.

Mikayla and Lindsay

Robin and Christopher...Taylor is hiding behind them. Robin says he doesn't like having his picture taken anymore!

Braquel and Brittney. My biggest laugh of the day.....my grandma has a clothes line over by where the food was set up. Braquel's boyfriend Kevin kept running into the line everytime he would walk over there. After a while we were trying to think up reasons to have him walk over there just so we could see him run into the clothes line!! Ok, not very nice....but it was funny!
My second laugh of the day....Our main course was a whole roasted pig...

When Gary and Jason started getting the meat out all of the kids went over to check it out. We have four boys in the family and they all were quite disgusted with the whole thing. Guess who sat in the back of the pickup and watched.....

The girls!! And of all the girls guess who was the most into it.....

Brooke had to get on the gloves, help get the meat out, and pull off some skin. I had walked away for a minute and when I was walking back I heard her say, "I want the ear"!

After dinner we had cake. Danelle's kids decided that Grandma should have 60 candles since she was turning 60. So we put twenty candles on three different cakes.... it is not easy to get 60 candles going all at the same time. We had four of us lighting them and still took awhile to get them all going.

I hope my mom had a great birthday. She is an amazing person who is always there to help me when I need it. She calls me at least once a week just to check in and see how our family is doing, and the kids think she is a miracle worker! Any time they have anything that need sewn up or fixed they put it in the "do you think grandma can fix this" pile. We love you mom/grandma.