Leila and Mike came over this past weekend to visit. Leila thought it was a good time to celebrate Dad's birthday. He turns 79 on April 18th. Renee was going to come up too and join in the festivities.
Ike Timm called earlier in the week and said he was thinking about my mom and dad this week and wanted to go see my dad. He heard about the party and asked if he could join us. Ike is the pastor who performed the service for my mother, his dad and my dad were close friends years ago. I told him that would be great if he would come, it would be an honor to have him join us. I took their picture and then realized we had--"Mike and Ike" with us. (Two preachers got together to talk)
Angie also joined us. I had posted an invite on Facebook, she called and asked if I was serious. I was serious and we were very excited to have her join in too. She stood in the picture for Kathy, since Kathy couldn't be there. Dad was none the wiser and really, Angie was like one of us anyway--we have shared many memories together. Angie lost her first husband 10 years ago and Dad came up from Missouri to have his funeral. Angie said Dad said to her, "Hold on my child, joy comes in the morning..." Dad had a great gift of offering comfort to the hurting. It is an honor now to offer help to him knowing how much he did for others.
Dad LOVES ice cream. I fed him his own ice cream and cake that Tim (Michele's husband) had made for him. We also had Dr. Thunder, Dad's beverage of choice. After I finished feeding him his cake and ice cream, we were just sitting there chatting and laughing. Ryan had decided he didn't want his ice cream so he pushed his plate to the center of the table. Pretty soon, Dad reaches over and pulls Ryan's plate in front of him. I gave him a spoon and he finished Ryan's ice cream (I had to help a little). He obviously could not get enough!
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