Hope Babies 1932-2012
Yesterday was the Annual Hope Cottage Founder’s Day Picnic – a decades old tradition for Hope Cottage Families. The weather cooperated with a cloud cover and a nice breeze while Hope Babies ranging in ages of six months to eighty years “came home”.
“Most Senior Hope Baby” in attendance was Jack Terry. He and his wife Glenda drove down from Oklahoma especially for the event. The Terrys are pictured below with Tom Cain, longtime Hope Cottage Supporter and our Most Senior Volunteer. Mr. Cain remembers, as a young boy, riding with his mother, first in a horse drawn wagon and then later in a car as she picked up babies and brought them to Hope Cottage to await placement with their forever families. There is a very good chance that Mr. Terry was rocked by Mr. Cain’s mother during his stay Hope Cottage.
Jack and Glenda Terry (left) with Tom Cain (right)
Our favorite therapy dogs were back again this year…
Pretzel the Therapy Dog
DJ Mark Ridlen provided plenty of great dance tunes, along with a limbo contest.
Limbo Contest
There was the watermelon rolling contest too…
Come On – you know you can do it!
And the Hula Hoop Contest…
Gotcha!
Blue Bear from Blue Cross Blue Shield wowed the crowd…
Blue Bear
Three Lions provided sandwiches…
Three Lions
After two short hours, everyone headed home. It is always wonderful being able to spend time with our Hope Families. Until the Holiday Reunion Party on December 2nd- in the words of two of Hope Cottage’s adoptive parents, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans…
To see more pictures, visit the 2012 Founders Day Picnic Photo Album on our website.
Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.
If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.
If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.
