Uncle Dale turns 80

Uncle Dale Carling, my mother's brother turned 80 and had a surprise party for him.  He works at the movie theater taking tickets.  YES he is 80 and stands and takes tickets for the movies!  He worked the 8 hour shift from 10 - 6.  The party started at 6:00 and we were in the party room upstairs at the theater.  The theater people told him he was to go upstairs and have a drug test.  He couldn't figure out why he needed ANOTHER drug test but he came on up and there we were.  It was super fun.  I brought Marlena and Mark and Michelle to the party.  We saw all of his kids that we never see.  Craig, Karen, Kevin, Scott, Kathy and Steve were there and most of their kids.  So fun to see them.  It was interesting to see that Dale who is 80 just got off his shift, my dad who is 81 can hardly get in the place due to heart failure, and Bob has a hard time also due to being almost blind and uses a cane. 

We were the first one there and the last to leave.  Interesting to look at families that have changed since we were kids.  My favorites are Karen, Steve and Scott.  We did grow up with Steve and Scott though because they lived close to us and they would come over from time to time.  I have lots of memories of them.   I helped Scott graduate from High School by typing a paper for him and now he has a good job at the South Valley Water Treatment plant.  Steve, has one illegitimate child who has THREE illegimate children.  He is finally married to two of the baby's mother.  But Steve has custody of the oldest one.  I should have taken pictures. 

Craig has two kids and they are great.  Karen has 3 boys that were super cute.  One is just out of jail on drug charges.  One is an electrician and the other works for a cell phone company.  Kathy has two girls (both that were illigimate)  and Kathy looks like she does meth.  she is also an alcoholic.  She looks like she has some tough living.  Brittany is a druggie and has 3 children and doesn't have custody of any of them.  Craig's daughter is raising one of them.  The oldest of brittanys was raised by Dale.  She is 18 and had 3 toned hair for their family pic.  The other daughter, Courtney is out of jail for now and has 2 or three kids and are being raised by the dads.  Kevin has two daughters, one of them is in texas barrel racing and the other one I don't remember.  He has a cute girlfriend that he use to date long ago.

super fun to see all these people that we never see.  Probably the next time we see them will be at a funeral.  Not sure who will be the first. . . .

Bob, Marlena, Dale who is the birthday boy

Steve, Michelle, Scott, Maureen