Birthdays are all the time value celebrating, however 100 is such an enormous milestone that it deserves further particular honor. Mark’s Aunt Frances, his dad’s sister and solely sibling remaining, turned 100 years previous on January 12. We went to Blue Ridge to have fun with Mark’s prolonged household and I took just a few photographs to commemorate the day, so I hope you get pleasure from seeing this stunning milestone of a life nicely lived. Aunt Frances is an exquisite girl, she nonetheless lives by herself in her home, along with her daughter and grandchildren only a quick distance away.
Mark’s Aunt Frances & two of his women.
Mark goes to inform you all about his Aunt Frances in his personal phrases:
Glad Birthday to my Great Aunt and the perfect particular person I Know.
Rhoda wished me to put in writing one thing about my stunning Aunt who simply turned 100 years younger and I have no idea the place to start. How do you describe somebody to others who’s so indescribably great to you. I cherished her as a bit boy and that has by no means modified. You simply know when somebody not solely loves you, however actually likes you. Somebody who’s all the time in your aspect. That was and is my Aunt Frances. She was all the time the primary one to get to my grandparents home once we arrived in Orlando, adopted by my Cousin and Finest pal Keith, my stunning cousin Vicki after which my huge bear of a pal and Cousin Jeffrey…all her kids and like Frances my finest pals. Frances all the time made us really feel we have been house. Because the years glided by she sorted my Nanny and Pop. When my Nanny developed Alzheimer’s she was there to assist my Pop look after her…when my finest pal Keith suffered so lengthy with diabetes, she was all the time there to look after him and when my Pop began to say no in his late nineties, she was the one to look after him. I used to be all the time taught that as a Christian the Holy Spirit offers items to all who settle for Christ and imagine in him. Some have been prophets, some have been lecturers, some encouragers and a few got the items of servants. Many need the higher items however within the a few years I’ve been blessed to stay, I’ve come to imagine the best present is to be that of a servant. I imagine that’s her present and that’s the reason I imagine that the Father has rewarded her with such an extended and wholesome life. God has granted many in my household to stay lengthy lives…my Pop (Frances’s dad, was 100 when he died. My Nanny died in her ninety’s although she had Alzheimer’s. My mother and father died of their mid-nineties. My nice grandparents lived to be fairly previous. However I imagine God has granted my Aunt Frances such good well being and longevity as a result of she cherished and cared so unselfishly for her household. Like Caleb within the Bible her power has not abated and to this present day she nonetheless works in her yard, performs video games and makes use of her laptop every day. She is a continuing supply of amazement to us all and a humbling instance. I might be completely satisfied if I might be half as good, half as fearless and half as selfless as she all the time is. She has handed this trait right down to her daughter, my cousin Vicki, who’s a lot like her and whom I really like dearly. It’s a beautiful factor to have a household like I’ve and I really feel nice sorrow for individuals who have by no means recognized the enjoyment of getting individuals like my mother and father, grandparents, sisters, daughters, grandchildren, cousins, aunts and uncles, nieces, nephews, and great brother-in-law. To be given all that after which a beautiful spouse like Rhoda and having an Aunt like my Frances for all these years is simply the cherry on prime. So Glad a centesimal Birthday Frances, you’ve gotten all the time been a Vibrant gentle in my life and I really like you with all my all coronary heart.
Mark adores his Aunt Frances and usually calls her to catch up and test on her. She’s all the time glad to listen to from him and take heed to their conversations. We go as much as Blue Ridge a few instances a yr to see her and earlier than Mark’s mother handed away final yr, we took her with us on just a few events. Their household is shut and it’s all the time enjoyable to eavesdrop on the conversations, which remind me a lot of my circle of relatives tightness. It’s so laborious to see this era come to an finish and we savor the moments with them. My very own senior relations are leaving us one by one and there are solely 2 brothers left in my mother’s household and none left in my dad’s. He was the final one among his household of 10 kids to cross away final yr. We’re arising on the one yr anniversary of pop’s passing, February sixth.
Aunt Frances is a pleasure to be round. She’s constructive and completely satisfied, grateful for all times and her household and she or he’s nonetheless very lively, with a pc she will get on every day. She’s a blessing and it’s so wonderful that she simply turned 100. Her personal dad lived to be 100 as nicely and that’s actually wonderful. Mark was sharing footage along with her on his telephone and this one caught her consideration. I did an AI model of myself of a vacation fancy dressed photograph that many did through the Christmas holidays. You most likely noticed it with crimson and white and a lollipop within the photograph. After I did that image, Mark stated, do one among me with hair, so I did and it put each of us within the image, see it beneath. Mark has been displaying everybody that image and getting an excellent snort out of it! He hasn’t had hair for a very long time and after he misplaced all of it on the highest, started shaving his head a few years in the past. I don’t thoughts a bald head myself!
So right here’s the AI model of Mark and me in a snowy rustic scene outdoors. Isn’t that humorous? It made us each look youthful and higher, nevertheless it’s wonderful that AI can do as of late. I nonetheless don’t do a lot with it, however doctoring footage is fairly hysterical. I did this in Chat GPT. It certain made Aunt Frances snort!
She was me and I used to be snapping away.
She obtained a kick out of seeing Mark with hair once more.
Her household celebrated so nicely with this collage of Aunt Frances in her youthful years. She’s was and is an exquisite girl.
Glad Birthday banner.
And a beautiful cake embellished for 100. We had scrumptious soup for lunch after which minimize this stunning cake. Aunt Frances blew out the one candle on the cake after which exclaimed that she figured it might be a kind of candles that wouldn’t blow out. I obtained that on video and it was so cute! If you wish to see the video, I shared it on Fb, so head over there and watch it. It’s so cute!
She is such a doll and I’m so glad I’ve gotten to fulfill her and be round this valuable girl. Glad a centesimal birthday to Aunt Frances, the Birthday Queen. That is Mark and his sister, Linda, along with her.
I hope you all loved seeing a peek into Mark’s household and the household he grew up with. It’s been enjoyable to be part of for me!
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