i first mentioned my wife gina’s grand aunt, sister mary loyola (adelaide engel) last year in this post. well another year has past and today aunt ade turns 101 years old. pictured above (left to right) are fran iannozzi (my mother-in-law), aunt ade, sophia (my daughter) and gina. i’ve been shooting portraits of the ladies in egan lineage for 4 years. it’s amazing to see the progression. i’ll have to dig up the earliest photo from my archives and append this post.

aunt ade is a treasure and we’re incredibly blessed to have her in our lives. so aunt ade, we wish you the best and hope to celebrate your birthdays for many more years. as a parting note, one of her her saying: “The Present is a present”. talk about words to live by, for a long time.