Happy Birthday Christy

 

 

Our daughter in law ~ how we wish you a most wonderful day!!!!!!

 

 

Christy has so many talents ~

she is proficient at all she does, she does it with vigor (how we love her zest for life!)

 

 

She's a GREAT wife.

She's an AMAZING cook ~ we call her our own resident CHEF!

 

She loves wine!

 

Her family ~

 



 

Her kids love her a ton!

 



 

Her mom is a treasure!

Her PA family loves the Steelers!!!!!!

 



 

She is a wonderful part of our family!

 

 

She knows how to have fun!

 

Christy, Alden and I wish you a wonderful birthday.

 

May God bless you this year ahead.

We love you a bunch!!!!!!

 



This New Decade is REALLY FUN!

{Heads up......this is a crazy long post.......

but I HAD to add ALL of these amazing pictures of  SUCH an AMAZING night!}

 

Yes, I have stepped into 60!

My aMaZiNg family ~ Alden and kids ~

threw me THE most WONDERFUL party.
I will cherish this for my lifetime with such JOY!
They love me so well.
 

The grandkids were there!  (Aren't they growing up!!!!!!)

Our very special friends ~ who are just like family!
The Burke Station Gang!  {Bob and Chris we missed you!}
Hannah was one year old when we met....
so we have lived life together for some 26 years!  Almost half of my life!

 

My sister Kim and niece Heather.

{Missed you Dianne, Chuck, Susan and Richard,
Ken and Lynne}

 

And my best friend since 7th grade ~ Susan! 
(Ned, her husband ~ our dear friend was there too!!!!!)

All of these people are REALLY what this party was all about ~
the gift they are in life ~ how I cherish them all.

 

 As I made my way over ~ and just a little bit excited....yep, even GIDDY!

 

 

the CREW was setting up!



 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 My favorite candies, cute flower vases with daisies, cheese and crackers, fun colored napkins, twizzlers, and SUCH cute colorful lanterns. 

AMAZING how they thought of all my favorite things ~ put it together ~

so beautifully!!!!!

 



 

We arrived!!!!!!

 

 

 

with a most fun welcome!

 

 

 

 

 

The SMILES and LOVE that I was greeted with!!!!!!!!!

Oh my, the tears flow as I post these pictures.....remembering.

It is called LOVE.....for their mama....

and mom EVER so loving all of them. 

(Sorry Alden,Steve, Christy, John and Pat not having the pics of YOU!)

The smiles lasted ALL NIGHT long....and for days following!

 

 

Oh my ~ how they transformed this community center into a beautiful ballroom!!!!!!
The talent and serving hearts were so EVIDENT! 
What an amazing TEAM!

 

Alden put up his lights with Phill's help ~

yet another WONDERFUL touch to make it so fun and festive!!!!!!

 

 

SUCH fun and PERFECT decorations!

What a JOY to walk into this beautiful sight!



 

Even the mantle was so pretty!

 

 Doesn't it look AMAZING!!!!!

 

 

One of our family's favorite meals ~ Chipotle!!!!!!! 

Um.....YES~!~~

This is my life in pictures ~ from the past 60 years.

Oh my my my, what a treasure.  Thank you Courtney for such an amazing creation!


 Lemon/Chocolate Cake, chocolate chip cookies and lemon coolers ~

all of my favorites. 

[and even look at the CUTE napkins, my favorite flowers and beautiful colors everywhere]

They know me SOOOOOOOOOO well.

Rebekah made the cute "60".  

 

As the sun set.......

 

 the guests began to arrive ~

 

Got some drink and started catching up! 

 

 

The grandkids played and sent joyful glees throughout the room!

 

The grandkids were the BEST servers!!!!!  Thanks Joshua!

Granddaughters having fun together!

And of course the picture taking began!

 

Girlfriends ~ FOREVER! 

We've gotten each other through so much ~ our kids grew up together, we lost our parents,

made it through the teen years.....

and listened, loved, prayed for these many years.

We met when Hannah was 1 year old....

thus friends for 26 years now!!!!!

Blessings!

The guys ~ oh what fun they have together!!!!!!!!

 



 

My "boys" ~ I know....they're men!!!!!

 

 

 Cousins!

 

 

Silly cousins!!!!  A "redo of years ago"!!!!!!

 

 

This picture was in the slide show.....so of course they had to do it AGAIN!

 

 

We ate ~

 

 

 

 

 

QUITE a few candles to blow out!  :)



 

Alden put together a slide show of pictures from my 60 years ~

with music.  It was AMAZING and crazy to see my life

go before me in those few minutes!!!!!!

 



Tributes were given ~ ever so special.

Humbling to listen to, but thankful for these dear people in my life.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

 

AND then......

the DANCING began!!!!!!!!

 

 

You bet we had some FANTASTIC (sometimes loud!) music. 

We are a music LOVING family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Hannah and John for our being our DJ's!

 

We danced to the oldies......

 

This picture captures the JOY of the evening ~ the smiles and FUN going on!!!!!!!
 

 

And some line dancing!!!!!!

Alden even had my friend from school come to help us with the line dancing.

Thank you SO much Lauren!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

Yay Kim!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

And a little bit lower........

 

Christy gave me a wonderful picture of "wordology".  She's SO creative and thoughtful.

They even had a FUN photo booth for us to have fun with!

 

 

 

 



Thank you Alden ~ for coordinating this AMAZING night!



Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh what a NIGHT ~ I couldn't have dreamed of a more special/FUN time.

 

[I sure didn't want the night to end.......]

 

Thank you DEAR AMAZING

Alden, Courtney, Pat, Phill, Christy, Steve, Hannah and John

AND Burke Station GANG

 for helping me step into this new decade ~

for a FABULOUS once-in-a-lifetime evening of PURE SIMPLE fun!

 

60 seems pretty FUN! 

 

I am one "Blessed Beyond Measure" woman!