Vacation Post #5 ~ Happy 70th Birthday Grandpa Dave!

June 8: Today is Grandpa Dave's 70th birthday and we had a big celebration. We began the day worshipping at Grace Brethren Church in Ashland. After a quick family picture, the guests began arriving. Here is Grandpa and Grammy, their 2 daughters, Jodi and Shauna, and 8 grandchildren ~ Timothy, Carson, Allie, Sarah, Madison, Lindsay, Savannah, and Jason! Whew - that's a lot of grandchildren from just 2 daughters!!

Jodi's dad's sister, Margaret and Charlie came along with Beth, Kevin, their grandson Jake, and Chris. Dave's younger brother Roger and Barbara also drove in from Tennessee for the celebration. From Jodi's mom's side came her sister Deb and Jake, Cassie, Gwen and Crystal and fiance' Dave. Her parents Don and Ruth Helbert were also able to be here. Here is Dave with sister Margaret and youngest brother Roger.

Susan was sneaky and sent out requests for cards, letters and pictures for Dad's birthday. She filled 2 scrapbooks with all of these memories. She also had wrappers made for Hersey candy bars that had a picture of dad when he was 2 and a current picture. On the back of the wrapper were memorable dates of his life. Everyone took these as party favors.

Looking through the scrapbooks