Sunday, July 5, 2009

~Happy 80th Birthday Aunt Dorothy~

July 4th was not just a celebration across America for the birthday of our country, it was also a surprise birthday party for my Aunt Dorothy Moss. Although I have to say that I am not so sure she was surprised....can't fool her ...she knew something was up! But that's ok, I think she was pretty happy that we all came to see her! Her birthday is actually not till July 8th, but this past weekend, Keith and I drove from Lake Claiborne to Bethel Assembly of God Church in Parker's Chapel, Arkansas to go celebrate her birthday and eat some birthday cake! She sure doesn't look 80 years old to me!



ok, somehow I managed to get a picture of Steve and Janis' grandbabies, but I can't get them to go down any further than this so...as random as it is...here they are!
Ashton, Evan and Alexis! SWEET BABIES!


Aunt Dorothy was married to my Daddy's oldest brother Harmel. Uncle Harmel passed away a few years ago. This is Aunt Dorothy and her children, Ernie, LaJuan and Steve. Steve is the pastor at Bethel. LaJuan lives in Lindale, Texas with her family and Ernie lives in Fayetteville, AR with his wife Mary.




This is my cousin Steve and his whole family! Janis is his wife and they have three sons, Wesley, Brad and Mikey! Wesley has two precious children and Brad is married to Terri and they have a son.This is my sweet cousin LaJuan with her children Katie and Will. Katie was quick to tell me that she is 27 and the "oldest" and Will is the "youngest"! I told her that I had not seen Will since he was a little fellow and she pointed out that he is all grown up now ...but he was still the youngest! :-) Katie had lots to tell me while we were eating our hot dogs and she kept me entertained!


This is Evan, he is Terri and Brad's baby boy. He couldn't keep still and was crawling everywhere or someone was holding him!

Even Keith held Evan for a while. He looks good holding a baby don't ya think! LOL He was quick to tell me to "give him back!" But Evan didn't seem to mind who was holding him as long as he could see what was goin on!

He didn't even mind his birthday hat!


I think he likes to have his picture made and was posing and everything!



Even Aunt Barbara got in on the action of holding Evan....I think he was probably getting tired about this time.


This would be my "boy" cousins...or some of them anyway. This is Steve, Greg and Ernie Moss. Steve and Ernie are Uncle Harmel and Aunt Dorothy's sons and Greg is Uncle Harold and Aunt Jan's son. Aunt Jan had back surgery and she and Uncle Harold couldn't be there...we sure did miss them!



Daddy wanted his picture made with his nephews! I think Evan might be kin to his Uncle Norris a little cause Dad sure likes having his picture made! :-) Love you Daddy!



Not sure what Steve said, but Greg and Ernie were more interested in that than having their pictures made!



This would be the first cousins that were there, Steve, Terri, Greg, LaJuan, Me, Jana and Ernie.




Another of the birthday girl and her kiddos!




This is Steve and Janis' son Mikey and Terri's daughter Shelby. Terris is Uncle Harold and Aunt Jan's only daughter and Shelby is Terri and her Hubby Robin Wasson's only daughter! What a great picture of those two!



This is Greg and LaJuan...caught them in the kitchen catching up with each other and getting hugs! We are a huggie bunch!






See, told you Daddy liked having his picture made...Just kidding..this is a great picture of Dad and Aunt Dorothy!





All along the walls of the family life center were saying and pictures and things pertaining to Aunt Dorothy's birthday. I thought this one fit her really well! It says Angels danced the day you were born. I have so many great memories of summers spent with her and Uncle Harmel in ElDorado and she used to teach me Sunday school and I learned a lot from her!




This was one of the pictures on the wall. My flash wouldn't take very good pics of the pics...but this one turned out pretty good! The one below...not so good! LOL



Evan Moss posing for the camera! He was being a good little boy! Steve and Janis are so proud of their boys and especially proud of their beautiful grandkids. I couldn't catch Wesley's two kiddos long enough to get a picture of the two of them, but you can see them running around behind some of the pictures I did get.






This is Aunt Barbara who was married to Daddy's brother Howard and Aunt Dorothy and Aunt "B"'s daughter Jana. Jana and I grew up together and she lives in Missouri now. I miss her so much and really enjoy getting to see her when I can. Keith and I went to Branson last year for our 20th Anniversary and we went up to see Jana and have supper with her and her children. I could have stayed there visiting with her forever! She has me talked into entering the 1/2 marathon in December for the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis. This past year she and I walked th 5 K. I am sure I will be walking more than running in the 1/2 marathon, but I think I will give it a shot with her!!! Love you Jana!


Steve, Janis and baby Evan......proud grandparents for sure!!! I think Wesley's son is running around in the back ground!



Terri Moss, Shelby Wasson, Terri Wasson and Jana Addison.....I believe that is Brad (Terri Moss' hubby) in the background!




Last but not least, the 4 muskateers! Me, LaJuan, Terri and Jana. I told Keith on the way up to AR that I wanted a picture of the four of us cause who knows when we will be able to get together again! I miss all of them so much and look forward to the next time we all can get together and catch up!

Several folks commented that they were glad that we left our vacation to come up for the party...well I wouldn't have missed Aunt Dorothy's 80th birthday party for anything in the world! I love you Aunt Dorothy!!!! I love the rest of you guys too....we really need to have more family get togethers like we used to!