80th Birthday Celebration!

Gene celebrated his 80th birthday with daughters Lori and Terri at a campout along the Missouri River. The RV was home base with four tents circling the motorhome.

 

Gene blowing out the matches on his birthday cake . . . we forgot the candles!

 

 

The Taylors borrowed a friend's boat for fishing, water skiing and pulling the kids on a tube. Gene won the fishing contest: the biggest, the first, the most . . . and the only fish caught.

 

Doesn't he look proud!

 

We played games, napped in the hammock, sang songs around a roaring campfire, viewed wildlife (wild turkeys, deer, redheaded woodpeckers). The most fun, however, was watching old 8mm films of the Crabb family circa 1968 and earlier. The projector hadn't been used in about 35 years and when it was started up everything worked, even the light bulb. Gene started it up like it was yesterday.

 

 

Our favorite photo of all 15 of us crammed in the RV watching old family movies. Cozy huh?