Party, Party!

I have the best family. This next week will be my birthday (Tues.) and no I am not saying how old I am going to be but to celebrate my sister Kathy did a birthday luncheon for the girls in the family. My Mom, sisters, sister in law (same as a sister), nieces, a cousin and daughters came to help me celebrate. We even had a couple of cute little great neices and 2 of my grandsons. My sister Kathy always makes things look so cute. It was raining outside so she cleared out her family room and set a big square table in the middle so that we could all sit together out of the rain and cold. This beautiful table setting is what we arrived to. Kathy makes it so fun. She had a little party favor for each of us under our napkins and 3 guest had fun little prizes tapped to the bottom of their chairs. Here is a picture of the food. We had crosiant rolls, chicken salad and strawberries with best fruit dip. It was all yummy!

ne I had to take a picture of these beautiful flowers and that little plate next to them had some truffles from See's Candy on it. We could pick from a lemon or raspberry truffles and let me tell you they were both good but the lemon ones were definately my favorite.

Here is a picture of our group. I had one neice and baby that had already left. We are so lucky, our family loves to be together. We try to find any reason to get together and have fun. Thanks you guys...love you all!

Party #2

Since Carrie was already in town for Party #1 the girls decided to do our family birthday party today too. Beth went all out with her decorating here at home. I picked Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner and this is how she set it all out. She always makes sure there are flowers on the tables. She loves flowers. These are the goodies we put on top of our haystacks. Here is our table setting. The picture really isn't that good. It looked really cute. It's hard to tell but the center piece was filled with pastel colored eggs and flowers. Great, I will be ready for our Easter get together. I can't leave these out, my favorite cake is Chocolate Coca Cola Cake. It is the best but has a pound of butter, chocolate chips...etc, not the best for you, but oh so good, so we only make it once a year for my birthday. This is the first time we have made it into cupcakes but it worked out great. They were sooo Yummy!

Here is the cute little bunch that came to help Grandma celebrate. I had run to the store and when I arrived home they had balloons and crepe paper streamers decorating the house too. Thanks everyone, it made the day great!

Aren't birthdays wonderful...now if we just didn't have to get another year older to have one!