95 Years Young!

Officially, Monday, November 17th is my Dad's 95th birthday, but some of our family gathered in Dauphin Manitoba this weekend for a good old food feast and visit with Dad, Grandpa and/or Gido!!! Now no one let slip that we were doing this until Saturday morning when Sylvia and Len were elected to go visit and bring him over to the Senior Centre sometimes in the afternoon. Well he got dressed and came over and stayed till 7:30 ish - which was a long time around everyone and not in his own home.

First off thank yous to Elsie, Erlene and Florence for their behind the scenes efforts to prepare and pull off this family gathering which I can say Dad was happy to attend along with many that attended! And secondly thank yous to the three chiefs and all those that assisted throughout the day and evening too. Hope all enjoyed themselves and arrived home safely!


Margaret (3rd), Sylvia (1st), Dmetro, Rose Anne (6th)






Now can you imagine 23 great-grandchildren ranging from (I think) 3 to 23 years of age running around (and that's not all of them either) along with the grandchildren, siblings and all the spouces that were able to attend - in total 65 with Dad, to keep contained, fed, and then organized for picture taking??? Well it was accomplished!!! We started to gather at around 10:30 am and were out of there by 8:00 pm and it looked just as good as when we had arrived!!! Not bad at all.


Some of the many great-grandchildren (many missing too).


Some of the grandchildren (3 missing).


Dmetro's "girls"!!! Florence, Rose Anne, Marlene, Erlene, Margaret, Elsie and Sylvia. Son, Eugene, absent - working up north.

The following are "girls" and their families but not necessarily corresponding in order in the pictures but the "first name" of the couples are the children of the "girls".


#1 - Sylvia & Len, Audrey (Bethany & Kiernan), Pat & Randy (Amanda & Byran), Diane & Curtis (Bradley & Tyler).


#2 - Elsie & Pete, Tracy & Terry (Colin, Tani & Braden), Brian & Laura (Lucas, Haley, Brooke & Brianna).


#3 - Margaret & Len, Tammy, Dennis, Dean & Victoria, Terry.


#4 - Erlene & Ray, Trevor & Janine, Denise (Allyson, Meagan & Tyler), Bruce & Karen (Jake, Hayden & Keetyn).


#5 - Marlene & Henry, Debbie & Cam (Kailyn, Dylan & Brandon), Norman & Tina (Andrew, Craig & ???)


#6 - Rose Anne and Dad


#8 - Florence & Wayne

Needless to say I did not get any stitching accomplished this weekend!!!