Family Birthday Party

There are 6 of us that have a birthday in July, so we combine these into one day. That was today. I started out the day with a pic of my new kitten hiding under a bush. I didn't obtain this kitten by choice. He came out of the woods one day a few weeks back while I was on a walk. He followed me home. This was the day after I let my husband know that we would have no more animals after the ones we have passed on. We named him Raphael. He doesn't have a tail. It's so cute when he wags that little nub. Here is a beautiful spider web that mom spotted out the window.

The minute my husband, Wayne, got to the house, he had to work on my stepdad's truck. His name is Revis and he's one of the six with a birthday.

Here he is looking like Johnny Bench checking out the temperature on the fish fryer.

Here's Raphael again playing around the plants. He never gets tired.

Revis is shaking the fish in the meal. Getting ready to fry.

Putting fish in the fryer.

Isn't this a neat contraption?


Mmmm! Don't that look good? Catfish and bream.


Here is Jazen, my grandson, with his dad's mom, Renee. He's five this month.See him cutting his eyes up at me?
Jazen again, with Wayne.

Mom wouldn't let me get her face in the pictures. but here she is helping with the fish.

Besides the fish, we had apple pie filling baked beans, french fries, spaghetti salad, cole slaw, tomato-onion hushpuppies. there was more, but people were hungry and weren't giving me time to photograph the food.

A kitchen scene. Mom's kitchen. OOps! Sorry mom, I got a full body shot.
Jazen got to open his gifts first. He got legos, a skateboard set, clothes, a DVD, and a towmater lego set.



I got mom a vintage book and a room diffuser set.

I gave Revis a basket of snacks. This little one was eyeing that basket real close.

Revis snatched that basket up fast. Can't wait for dinner to settle, so he can snack.

Renee came bearing gifts also.

She gave mom a statue of the sacred heart Jesus. This thing is super heavy! Mom can't lift it, so I'll have to place it for her.

Jazen contently playing with his skateboard set. That lasted about 5 minutes.

Love that shirt. I'm not old. I'm olde.
Renee gave these Coleus to Mom also to plant around the statue.

This is what Mom gave me. She made or ordered from etsy. A bird's nest lariat necklace and bracelet. One of those brooch and necklaces in one. You clip the pins on either side of your shirt and the beads hang down like a necklace. And of course, the little pink bowl.


We had a great time and ate too much. I made a chocolate peanut butter dessert instead of a cake this year, because it was just too hot. The gift renee gave me will be online tomorrow. It's an outfit and I love it and can't wait to wear it! Happy birthday Mom, Revis, Jazen, Pam, Derek and me!