One Century Old

My Grandma Mason turned a whopping 100 years old on Sunday! Woohoo! Even though she isn't too thrilled to still be around I was pretty excited to see her hit that milestone. We got the family together to celebrate. Here is a picture of all of us, it's a small family. My grandparents only had two kids, my mom and her twin sister Lynda. Her sister also only had two kids. So there are a total of 6 grandkids on my mom's side. Besides my grandma and us, my cousin Barbara (yes she is named after my mom) and my uncle Dick are pictured. (My aunt Lynda died a few years ago and my other cousin Richard couldn't make it to the party.)



A Tongan lady from my parents ward made my grandma a lei and a thing for her head. (I have no idea what that is called.) Here she is sporting them.

We began the night by admiring this truck my uncle restored. He likes to restore old cars. Then we had a delicious dinner with 2 desserts. A lemon coconut cake courtesy of Carol Ann and a chocolate ice cream brownie cake courtesy of Jen. Both were fancy and fabulous.

After that we played a rousing game of Jeopardy with questions about my grandma's life with my mom as Alex Trebek.



I never really think about what my grandparents life was like before I existed, its neat to find out about their life before they were grandparents. Just think, my grandma lived through 2 world wars, the great depression, and saw the invention of tvs, computers, cell phones and so much more. Some interesting facts about my grandma:

1. Her and my grandpa worked at competing oil companies and had to secretly date, elope, and then they lived separately for the first year of their marriage. Crazy how much things like that mattered back then.
2. Her family was one of the first in the neighborhood to get indoor plumbing when she was a teenager.
3. She had a tumor the size of a football on her kidney and her incompetent doctor treated her for arthritis. Luckily, before it was too late she switched doctors and was then properly diagnosed. We were lucky she made it to age 50, let alone 100.
4. Her first kiss was to a missionary. Scandolous.

Here are us cousins pictured with grandma.

All of us girls through 4 generations.