txmomofthree: June 2010

It's sort of a family reunion

We headed home for vacation and to see my Great-Grandma McIntyre who was turning 100 years old. After her birthday party at the church, we realized for the first time in 7 years we had just about the entire family there so we wanted to get a picture.

I am sorry that we could not have the entire family as we all had hoped for this photo. Those who were missing in this photo were: Aunt Merri who is Uncle Rick's wife was able to be at the parties even though Uncle Rick could not make it, but she exscaped from the church and back to the house before we could get a photo. Their daughter Little Ricci was not able to be there. Brittany and her husband were not able to come because Brittany is deployed to Iraq right now. Aunt Terri's daughter Kristy and her son were not able to come down. Uncle Tom's wife Kathy and their two children also could not make it and finally the only other persons missing was my Stepdad Rob and my husband Jon both who were working and could not make it either.

Here are pictures of the family from the party.

After the party we went back to Grandmaw and Pops McIntyre's house for what ended up being an indoor picnic because it was raining off and on all day. Several people helped out by making platters, and different dishes so that making the food for everyone did not fall all on one person.

We also were able to take a photo of Mom with her two children which we have not been able to do since Tim and I were young kids.

Next we also took a Five Generation photo of the oldest kids. Which would be My Great-Grandma McIntyre, Pops (her son), Diana (my Mom), myself and my oldest Heather. Then we had a photo with Tim and I and Great Grandma, Pops, and Mom and Heather.

I also got some random shots of the family as they spread out around the house.
To the left is Kristy and Tim. The Right is David Samantha's Husband.

This is Samantha (Uncle Tom's oldest) and her youngest Luke.

To the left is Little Jimmy, Aunt Terri's son.

This is Pops

Tiffany

Heather and Mom

Alex and Eli

It was so nice to be able to be around my Mom's side of the family for the first time in 7 years. We all had a great time despite the weather and when I first saw the table of food and the number of people we had I was not sure if it was going to be enough to feed us all. The good Lord does always provide and he did this day as well. We ended up with more food than we knew what to do with. I am so grateful that I have a family to go home to and that I was able to spend these special moments with my Great-Grandma and my Grandparents as well.

This flower arrangement along with three others were created by my oldest Heather. She got everything to make them from scratch with no patterns or help from the dollar store. All the flowers except the roses were fake, and the roses were from Great Grandma's Assisted Living Center Birthday Party where she got 100 red roses.

This Date in History June 3, 2010

As I posted in an earlier blog my Great-Grandma McIntyre turned 100 years old on June 3, 2010. On this day my Grandmaw McIntyre, Pops McIntyre, Aunt Terri, her friend Jimmy, Heather, Alex, and I were able to go to the Assisted Living Center where my Great-Grandma McIntyre lives in Romney, WV to celebrate her birthday with her there along with all the other residents and staff.

The local florists in the area all donated roses to my Great-Grandma as a way of showing their care for her turning 100. What surprized us all was that she got 100 red roses.

Great-Grandma Peggy also got a birthday card from President Obama and his wife Michelle Obama as well.

During her party Alex was listening to an iPod and Great-Grandma asked him what he had. Alex showed her what it was and even helped her to listen to it. Which she really enjoyed. I found this very cool that she enjoyed it so much at 100 years old. Just think about it, when she was 11 years old there wasn't even a thought in any persons mind about inventing an iPod.

All the residents and staff really seemed to enjoy themselves and we all had a great time celebrateing her birthday with them on that day.

I have a ton of pictures to share. As the old saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words." That being said I will let the photos speak for themselves. Enjoy.

A Centenarian in Our Family

The lady above is my Great-Grandma Margaret "Peggy" Frye McIntyre. On June 3, 2010 she turned 100 years old. Turning 100 years old is a very special thing to do. Not everyone is able to live this long and we are very lucky to have Great-Grandma still here with us. We had several celebrations for her during the week.

I am going to make this post about just one of her parties that she had. This day was June 5, 2010. We had a very special guest for my Great-Grandma this day as one of the Delegates from the Legislative House for the State of West Virginia came down to present Great-Grandma with a Citation.

Great-Grandma had guests that came to visit her at her party. We were so happy to see everyone come out and congratulate her on her becoming 100 years old.

As one of her honors we got Great-Grandma a corsage of two yellow roses.

Great-Grandma had a lot of family and friends come out to celebrate with her and she was able to enjoy their warm wishes, cards, cake and coffee with them all.

My Cousin Samantha created this really great board that had all of these interesting facts about the year that Great- Grandma was born. I have a pictures of it here.