Kansas Konnections – Ollie’s 95th

I officially finished my long series of our Epic Northwestern Journey yesterday with my post about Casper, Wyoming. Our Epic Northwestern Journey – Part 30- Fort Caspar, Wyoming. We had a great time, and saw so much. I hope you all enjoyed it too. I am going to add our Kansas adventures as well, even though they weren’t the same trip at all. I am just lumping our latest travels and adventures together, mainly because they were so close together timewise. We were only in Kansas for a long weekend.

The reason for our trip to Kansas was to celebrate Larry’s mom, Ollie (Viola). We helped her celebrate her 95th birthday, along with about 100 other people as well. In total, there was about 130+ people in attendance, all there to wish Ollie a very happy birthday.

All of Larry’s siblings and all of us “outlaws” with Ollie. Larry is the youngest of nine.

And all of the grandkids, their spouses and the great-grandkids. Needless to say, Larry has a BIG family.

The family decorated the hall in shades of purple and gold, since purple is Ollie’s favorite color. We rented out the VFW club.

My sister-in-law Sheri did most of the decorations and made all the cupcakes and the little gift boxes for everyone. She is very talented.

Our niece Paige is a very creative and talented cake maker too. She made Ollie’s cake.

Our nephew Matt was the DJ extraordinaire for the event.

Ollie had a great time, and so did all the guests, but poor Ollie was wiped out at the end of the day. It’s hard to be so popular and so well loved, especially at 95. 🙂

Happy Birthday Ollie. We love you very much.

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