Happy Retirement!

This past Saturday we celebrated 38 years of service. After all those years, Papaw Ben is finally ready to retire! To help celebrate, P, his brother Brian and sister Laura decided to throw a big surprise party (and all in only 1 week's notice!)

We knew we wanted to have a party so we started looking at the calendar. Turns out, this was the only weekend all 3 kids would be able to be in the same place at the same time. Crunch time...calls were made, food was prepared, supplies were purchased and everything came together beautifully!

I know Ben doesn't usually like to be the center of attention, but I hope he enjoyed it. 38 years of service with one company just doesn't happen any more and it needed to be recognized! Thanks to everyone that made it all go smoothly!

I really think we surprised him!! This was about the time

he figured it out!! Check out the look on D's face - pure enjoyment!

From left to right:

Wayne, Mike, Danny, Jeff, Ben, Alvin, Kim, Jimmy, John and Jim

Everyone greeting Ben as he arrived.

Everyone visiting and waiting to eat.

The boston butt...

YUMMY!! P did a WONDERFUL job with the meat.

It was "melt-in-your-mouth" good!

Mark proudly displaying the brisket.

Of course Little Bit had to steal Pop's attention!

The cake and gift table.

Ben opening his gifts.

Displaying his new Windchester rifle from the 3 kids.

(Brian, Laura and P)

All the guys checking out the new gun.

The cake (that the lady at Wal-Mart did in less than

10 hours notice!!)

Miss Priss, Papaw and the guys enjoying the yummy cake.

Little Bit trying to decide whether or not she wants to share

with Shelby. Shelby is putting on her best "poor-pitiful me"

routine!

Finally it worked!! The bone from the Boston Butt.

Somebody made her the happiest dog ever!

Everyone sitting around enjoying the Beautiful weather we

had Saturday.

PapaPerry and Mimi sitting back relaxing and enjoying

the afternoon.

Miss Priss posing with her freshly picked flowers.

I think everything turned out pretty darn good for such a short amount of planning time. We couldn't have done better if we had planned it for weeks. I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. Thanks to everyone for coming out to help us celebrate!!