Jack Harvey Durham celebrates birthday with family, friends

Jack Harvey Durham, son of Lee and Jay Durham, celebrated his first birthday at his home on the Thomson Road Wednesday morning, June 27, by blowing out his candle on his birthday cupcake and playing with his mother, grandmother, Vicki Harvey, and babysitter, Maxine Graham.

On Saturday, June 30, friends and family gathered at the Durham home for a backyard cookout at noon honoring Jack. Hamburgers and hotdogs were cooked on the grill by Jack's father, grandmother, Jack Harvey, and friend, Jim Baston. Pasta salad, pickles, coleslaw, chili, chips and all the trimmings were served with the meal.

"The Prince and the Frog" theme was carried out in the party decorations and birthday cake. The buffet table was decorated in blue and lime green cloths with a center arrangement of blue hydrangeas and daisies in a lime green sand pail highlighted with little green stuffed frogs of every kind given to Jack last year by friends at the time of his birth. Lime green frogs with yellow crowns were also present in the flower vases on the guest tables and everywhere on the deck. Happy Birthday banners decorated the tents along with red, blue and lime green balloons and large green frog balloons.

Jack enjoyed his own little birthday cake while guests enjoyed a green froggie cake, cupcakes and a very special birthday cake baked by his grandmother, Betty Durham of Greensboro, made from the "Durham Family Birthday Cake" recipe, a family tradition. Jack's grandfather, Joe Durham of Greensboro, churned and served homemade vanilla ice cream for everyone to enjoy.

Guests received lime green, blue or yellow sand pails with shovels filled with bubbles, Smarties, Animal Crackers and foam frogs, crowns, hearts and name tags to decorate each sand pail.

Out-of-town guests celebrating with Jack, his parents and grandparents, were his great-great-aunt, Caroline P. Walden, also LuCretia and Calvin Ferguson and T. R. Ferguson, all of Thomson; greataunt, Mylle Harvey Mangum of Eatonton; Ellen Key Banks of Stone Mountain; aunt, uncle and cousins, Jill and Rob Woods, Jacob, Josh and Drew, of Augusta; Lauren and Rodney Fowler of Statesboro; and god-aunt, Taylor Lindsey of Athens. Washington guests included Jessica and Robbie Eubank, Porter and Carson, Susan and Edward Pope III and Wesley, Tara and Robert Simmons and Ava, Katy Sisson Meech and Andrew, Heather and Jim Baston, Deb Talley, Sandra Pope, Debbie and Tommy Wells, and Ricky Lindsey, all of Washington.

On Sunday, Jack celebrated with birthday cake again at Cumberland Village in Aiken, S.C., with his great-grandfather, Vernon Leon Johnson.

In lieu of birthday gifts, donations were made to the First United Methodist Church of Washington's Building Fund.

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