Grandmother's 90th Birthday Milestone

My grandmother Maxine was born on February 8, 1920. However, I didn't get to meet her until I was 5, when my family moved from the Philippines to NC. My father had just completed his draft obligation for the Vietnam conflict, and had moved his family back home. Since the first time I met her, my relationship with my grandmother has been a familial love affair. She has always been the family's staunchest supporter, and has loved my siblings and I twice as much, because she reasoned that our other grandparents lived too far away to spoil us. I can't fathom what I would be like at 90, but if I could have a quarter of her grace, spunk and charm, then I would be one happy 90 year old!



I was the emcee at the event, and had happily put together over 100 pictures of my grandmother for a slide show presentation. I made sure there were photos covering all 9 decades of her life. It was a labor of love piecing it together. Following the slide show her two children Ann and John, my aunt and father, helped her cut her large birthday cake. Her party was a good turnout, considering NC received a record snowfall that hasn't happened in 10 years, and ironically, one that hasn't blanketed our Nation's capital as much in 90 years! About 80 guests were expected to show, and 52 attended. Still, it wasn't a shabby attendance!





My two nephews Skylar and Zeb were the mini darlings of the event. Such cuties!



Unfortunately, I only had time to take pics at the beginning of the event when people were filtering in, but I did manage to snag a few before the party got fully underway.

I call this pic "THE GRANDMOTHERS". It has my Aunt Ann with her grandaughter Caitlin, my mother with her grandsons Rex, Zeb, and Skylar, and my grandmother Maxine.

My grandmother was SO HAPPY at her 90th birthday party. She kept saying over and over again that "this was the best day ever!" It gladdened my heart to know we were able to bring her so much joy. Grandmother deserved every bit of it!