Happy 95th Birthday Grandma!

On July 18, we celebrated my grandmother's 95th birthday.

Her actual birthday isn't until next month, but this party was planned to celebrate her birthday, my great aunt's (her sister) 80th birthday and my great uncle's (her brother-in-law) 85th birthday since they're all within the same short time period.

My grandmother is an amazing woman, who, at almost 95 years of age, still lives on her own in Montreal. And travels here by train by herself (albeit with assistance getting to and from the train station) to visit our family several times a year. She is a very busy woman when at home, always out and about to the store, to church, to the Scottish Centre, with friends and even to dancing classes! We can all only hope to be as vibrant and active as she is when we get to be her age. She has five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, with a fourth on the way.

It was a wonderful party, with tons of people. And my grandmother had two of her great-grandchildren (Austin and Alexandra) there to celebrate with her (her youngest great grandchild (my cousin's son) is just a few weeks old and lives in California).

Here's a few pictures from the party:

Austin polishing off his second cupcake (before then having some chocolate cake)

Alexandra was a little wary of the dog

The birthday group (Uncle Chris, Grandma, Aunt Joan) and Austin (who helped his great-grandma blow out her candles.)