Showing posts with label Mom's 80th Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mom's 80th Birthday. Show all posts

Monday, October 22, 2012

80th Birthday party

What a celebration - my mom's 80th Birthday on Thursday 18th October, dinner at home, followed by a birthday bash with family and friends hosted by the Galways at Alverston on Sunday. Mom was surrounded by probably the biggest gathering of the Galway family clan since "pa fell off the bus", and we enjoyed a lamb on the spit, drinks and scruptious salads and puddings.
 


The "old ducks" - mom, Val, Jean and cousin Marie at the party

Birthday dinner at our home

Mom and son, Dave

Granddaughter Kate-Lynn (my daughter) and Llewellyn tuck in



The Galway family clan


My Mom and Kate-Lynn

 

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Mom turns 80!


My Mom (left) turns 80 today and she is still working part-time at my attorneys practice, Mc Naught and Co. Incredible!

Mom joined Mc Naught and Co as our conveyancing para-legal after a high-powered career with SA Breweries in Johannesburg and when she moved to Durban, Clements and Johnson Attorneys.

Mom worked tirelessly for me at the Bluff office until she retired in her 60s and re-located to my brother's smallholding in Johannesburg. She lived there for over 5 years until he sold up and emigrated to New Zealand. Mom and Gordon then returned to Durban to be closer to her family and friends and re-joined Mc Naught and Co in a part-time capacity, but coming to work 3 mornings a week, which she has been doing through her 70s, now reaching the milestone age of 80!

 
Thanks Mom for your incredible hard work and commitment to my business over all of these years. Have an awesome birthday today and party with your family and friends on Sunday.






 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Mom's 80th Birthday Invitations


It's my amazing Mom's 80th Birthday on the 18th October this year and we are putting together a luncheon in her honour that weekend, Sunday 21st October 2012, and Rob and Ros Galway, her brother and sister-in-law have kindly agreed to host the luncheon at their home in Alverstone. 

Kate-Lynn made the invitations which I have sent out today. It is a bit shameful as one used to print things like this and post them to people, but I have instead emailed the invitation to most of the guests who have email addresses and will need to follow up somehow for those who don't, to try and close the gap. If you feel you should have received an invite, please let me know and I will include you. durbanstadiumview@gmail.com  - Dave 083-7033329