This past weekend we celebrated my dad’s 80th birthday in Las Vegas.

My dad is the baby of 9 kids, the baby is 80! We had an awesome weekend meeting in Las Vegas, to sprinkle in a few surprises for him, mission accomplished!

I have many 1st cousins on the Fenter side of the family.  We are spread out all over the country, and some of us are closer than others,  however, we are all family. We laughed, and had lots of great times catching up with each other.   We realize it’s getting harder and harder to find the time to get together.

After some great times and some good discussion we will make a better effort in the future to not wait so long for these type of reunions.  As our families are growing it would be nice to have more reunions of all sizes, for our children, and grand children giving them chance to know one another.  We promise not to wait another 25 plus years for the next get together.

I really appreciate all those that made it to the surprise birthday party, it was nice to see that my dad’s older brother could make it, and even a couple of my 2nd cousins came to celebrate with us. Like many large families we don’t get together very often, our busy lives get in the way. The last time that we all got together in a large way was back in 1990.

I appreciate all of his friends that were able to make it, as well as some people he worked with in the past.  I really would like to thank everyone who came to help us celebrate for a wonderful weekend of fun in Las Vegas!

Happy 80th Birthday, Dad! (That’s him in the red shirt in the front row, sitting next to his older brother)  He looks pretty good for someone who is 80!