June 15, 2003
Jack's cake
Jack celebrated his fiftieth birthday on Friday. As a surprise, four of his siblings that do not live in Colorado flew in briefly, as well as his parents, to join the three siblings who in live in Colorado. There were several nieces and nephews there as well. Since Jack is the oldest of twelve, we are used to big family gatherings. The photo on the cake is Jack when he was fifteen or so.
It has been very wearing keeping this a secret for the past few months. I kept being afraid I would say something and screw up the surprise.