(William (Bill) T. Carr)
We decided to celebrate a bit early, and have the whole family gather together on Sunday afternoon at Paul’s house to wish him a Happy B-day. Most of his children, grand children, and great grand children were able to make the festivities. For those who weren’t able to, but where there in spirit, I thought I would blog about it, so you could read how the day went.
The morning started out with quite a hoot. Bill woke up around 10:00 a.m. and his son Paul & daughter Linda helped him get dressed. They picked out a gray shirt, sweater and gray pants for him to wear. When they looked at the sweater, it looked as though moths got into it and attacked it and put holes all over it. So, they said, we can’t let you wear that, scratch outfit #1.
Paul then goes upstairs; scrounging through several articles of clothing, and finds a red sweater for him to wear instead. So, this required outfit change #2. Once they finally got the sweater on him, it looked much better and Bill looked a little more presentable.
(Attempt #1 at an outfit.) (Attempt #2)
Everyone was scheduled to arrive at 1:00 for the celebration. Dave, the bakery chef brought in some Carmel rolls with pecans, cinnamon rolls, and pretzels. Everyone of course dives right into the sweets. Bill of all people wanted a sweet. He first started out with the caramel roll with nuts. He was cute with the way he ate it. He would eat the top, and along the sides, and not touch the middle. When he ran out of nuts and caramel, he decided to kipe a few more off the tray and added it to his roll. When he was done with his first helping, he dove in for another. He must have saved up his sweet tooth for his big day.
Roll #1... oh, those were good, I am going to have another.
We all pretty much sat around most of the afternoon, and gabbed about everything and anything, along with eating way too much food and too many sweets. We all had lots to say, and were able to just enjoy each other’s company.
For a present for Gramps, all of the great grand children decided to make Great Grandpa a b-day poster. They spent most of the afternoon creating this artwork piece, and I must say it turned out great! Good work girls!
(Becky, Ruth & Julianna)
The great grand children decided that they wanted to help put the b-day candles on the cake. Now, keep in mind that when you put 100 hot waxed candles too closely to one another, with a flame, it could turn out to be a waxy pool of mess. They decided to put all 100 candles onto one cake.
When it was time to light the cake, it basically was a ball of fire and created an inferno on the top of the cake. The flames were so hot and high that it melted the candles all the way down to the frosting on the cake. By the time the flames were blown out, there was a massive pool of wax and just the stubs of the candles left on the top of the cake.
(The flaming inferno with 100 candles)
The end result
We decided to take some family photos as well.
The great grand kids
Becky, Ruth, Austin, and Julies
All this parting, is making gramps feel exhausted.. Few, he finally gets to catch up on some zzz's.
All in all, I am so glad that I was able to celebrate and be a part of this day. I was able to see a family gather for such an awesome occasion, and celebrate this event that come around once in a lifetime. “If we’re lucky” Congrats on your 100th b-day bill! Way to go.
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