The Crash of 1929!!!

January 14, 1929 that is!

Delores Cecilia Miller crashed into the world 80 years ago!

We had a big celebration to commemorate that happy day.

What a blessing she is to all who know her.

Dodie with her children.

In back: Mike, Chris, Dodie, Greg and Charlene.

In front: Jeff, Susie, DeaDee, Kevin and Sharon.

Missing are our dear Elmer and Beverly.

(Sorry Kevin but it was either you looking like this and looking at the camera

or Chris not looking at the camera at all)

Dodie with her sister Angie and her husband Frank who made a special trip up from Texas and their brother Norbert's daughter Carol who came from California to join the celebration.

Chris

Chris' oldest boy, Craig.
Janelle, Chris' daughter, was not able to make the party.
She was missed.

Chris' second oldest boy, Brian

Chris' youngest, Jason

Bev's son Daniel.
Bev's son David and his wife Sarah and Bev's daughter Sonya, Richie and Dodie's great-granchildren Joshua and Jacob could not join us for the party. They were all missed.

Daniel blessing us all with his amazing God-given talents.
Simply beautiful.

Dodie, Craig and Diane (Dodie's pastor's wife) enjoying
Daniel's performance.

Jordan, Greg's oldest.

Lisa with our oldest, AJ

Jackson and Ian waiting their turn on the ping-pong table
getting hopped up on Mountain Dew!

Steven, Kevin's oldest son. Kevin's wife Leann, daughter Anna
and her husband Jason could not
join the party. We missed them too.

Kevin's youngest, Joel

Jeff and DeaDee joining the ping-pong fun
in the garage.

Sharon and her son and Dodie's youngest grandchild, Ryder

Sharon's son Nick

Greg's wife Laura, Sue and DeaDee

working their magic in the kitchen. The dinner was amazing.

Charlene and DeaDee taking a rest from all their work in the kitchen.

Charlene and Richie

Charlene's oldest, Tim and his girlfriend Keisha

Charlene's daughter Rochelle and our daughter Mollie.

They were the only girl cousins at the party.

Charlene's boys, Jake, Cole and Alec

DeaDee.

She made the trip from San Jose to come be with us all. DeaDee left her husband Nick and kids, Nick and Andrew home this trip. We missed them.

She and the other ladies planned a great party for Dodie. It all came together well.

Well done ladies!

DeaDee wearing her apron doing dishes.

Charlene and DeaDee made up some questions to test how well we all knew Dodie and the major events in her 80 years.

Charlene made up the questions for the grandkids.

Here are the questions and answers:

1: What year was Grandma born?...1929
2: What is Grandma's middle name? ...Cecilia
3: What kind of car does Grandma drive?... Lincoln Town Car
4: What city does Grandma live in?... Tumwater
5: How old was Grandma when she married Grandpa?... 22
6: What is Grandma's favorite food?... Spaghetti
7: How many grandchildren and great-grandchildren does Grandma have?... 31 and 2
8: What is Grandma's mom's and dad's name?... Teresa and Alphonse
9: What state was Grandma born?... Ohio
10: What is Grandma's favorite place to go on Sundays?... Church
11: How old is Grandma today?... 80

Some of the answers were pretty funny. Wrong... but funny!

Dodie looking at Jackson's "test" paper.

Jason, Joel and Bradley trying to come up with the funniest answers to the questions.

I'm sure they weren't correct but they were funny!

Charlene administering the "test" while sitting with Ian, one of the winners.

Ian tied with Jackson for first place. They got 9 out of 11 correct.

Their prize was lots of candy!!!

DeaDee, Steven and Susie playing the adults game to test their knowledge of how well they know Dodie.

DeaDee made up these questions. There were more of them and were way more detailed. Michael, Sharon and Charlene all tied for first place with 20 out of 25 correct.

For a tie-breaker they had to choose a number between 1 and 80.

Michael was the victor! The prize was two movie tickets!!!

Yeah, another date night!!

Sharon with Dodie and her cake.

Blowing out the candles!

All the cousins posing for a picture, which was no easy task!

Missing are: Sonya, Anna, Craig, Janelle, David, Daniel, Tim, Rochelle, Mollie, Brandon, Casey, Nicholas, Andrew

and Lucas, who was at the party but was missing for some reason.

Dodie opening up her gifts.

The main gifts were a water purifier she has been wanting for a long time and

a yardwork schedule for each weekend for the summer to help

Dodie maintain her yard.

The party was a great success and so much fun.

Dodie's pastor Dennis blessed the food and prayed a blessing over Dodie and her family.

It was a wonderful night and I know Dodie was blessed by it.

God bless Dodie.

~Lisa