Happy Birthday Dad!

Last Saturday was my father's 60th birthday! So we threw him a big bash to celebrate. My dad is a movie buff - so we went with a Hollywood theme, complete with popcorn and a slideshow "movie" spanning 60 years of my dad's life so far!



Guests walked the red carpet in their very "creative red carpet attire"...





There were even some glamorous bow-ties on hand for anyone who felt they could handle the look...



The birthday boy and his lovely wife arriving in style...



That Hollywood crowd can be such a bad influence...



I'm pretty sure only non-smokers would have this much fun with some candy cigarettes.



My dad is very serious about his birthday cake and the annual ritual of blowing out the candles.



He insists on having the exact number of candles on his cake...so for this birthday we needed 60 candles. Such a large number of candles can be detrimental to both the cake and the air quality in the room. We did take some precautions for the cake - using nifty little candle holders to keep the wax off - and placing them all on one half so we still had half a cake left afterwards. ;-)



Lighting the candles can be quite a challenge. At one point I think there were 4-5 of us trying to get them all lit before the first ones melted. Almost there...



The final part of the ritual is getting them all blown out in one breath. He did it!



Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday Gary/Winston/Dad/PaPa...Happy Birthday to you.

Any many more.... :-)