How did you Celebrate?

I'm tired...Jack gets over stimulated or something when we have large gatherings and through out the night has something akin to night terrors, but not quite.  Lots of yelling in his sleep and sitting straight up in bed.   We finally just put him in bed with us around 4am.

The trash pick up folks decided today was not a holiday and made their rounds, much to the chagrin of the entire street!  Therefor our phone rang at 7:23 (am) with an all out alert "the trash man is here" from our neighbor.  So after getting to bed around 2am, I was up and dh was up.  Jack however just got up at 10:30. Nice right? *g*

Anyway, here was our day in images...not much narration required I think....and thanks to everyone that shared their delicious dishes, I wish I had gotten pictures of all the wonderful food, but alas I faltered in the picture taking department!

Debra's (my sister) famous BLT Dip....

Pina Colada's also Debra's...(she's the true entertaining guru amongst us)

Store bought shade...

Home grown  pyromaniacs...seriously...I'm not kidding! ;)

Enablers of home grown pyromaniacs....

Can you say long day? *g*

Holiday Weekend...Graduation Party Style

It is Memorial Day weekend, but this year we did a college graduation party for my son Peter.  He's been asking me for this party for the past couple of years in anticipation.  I'm the Mom that doesn't let the kids have party's. I'm the Mom that is too afraid of confrontation with the neighbors, local police or anyone else that might complain about a bunch of 24/25 year old's having some fun a bit too late into the evening, but I'm happy to say I relinquished and planned the party.

Ya, I know it looks a lot like Elvis... but no, this is Peter in High School. He's a performer, always has been...always will be!

Ok, just kidding around, more current picture of Peter

"The Cake" depicting his 3 degrees.

And the catered food....(because I was too pooped out from the previous two party's and the Coffeehouse debacle! Tons of BBQ....more ribs than I've ever seen at one time!  We had beautiful weather and these kids (grown-up kids) were all really great guest!  Jack was swimming all day and we had expected him to sleep like a log last night, but instead he was restless all night. I'm guessing just too much excitement for a 5 year old in one day!  No more graduations for at least 13 years....:)  Thank you to everyone that came and helped celebrate with us!  The day would not have been complete without you!  I would have posted more pictures but I'm thinking not everyone wants their face on my blog...

Baby Shower Day!

Danika's

Baby Shower has come and gone....

Let me just say I had a wonderful time planning and hosting this shower for my Daughter in Law. She is a lovely person and I really enjoyed trying to make her shower as special as she is to us. All the pictures below will enlarge when clicked on.

I had her invitations customized and printed at tiny*prints. They even addressed and mailed them for me.

The link above will give you a full size view of her invitations. (without all the addresses and phone numbers)

Danika's Mother brought this table cloth she had made for them with her from Florida.

She had the little poem embroidered in the center.

Table cloth before the pens got to it! :)

Catherine brought the cake from the Cakery...

I kept this small so as not to have a watermelon taking up half the table.

The cucumber sandwiches were made with  cream cheese and dill as opposed to butter.

It was 90 degrees here today, so these were especially refreshing!

Asparagus wrapped with homemade Boursin Cheese and  Prosciutto.

Ready to eat!

This was taken before the final table arrangement. Just throwing this one is because I failed to take a picture of the little decorations hanging from the chandelier. I stumbled across this adorable idea at Traci's Blog over at Beneath My Heart.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I know we did! Heck, we were just happy that it wasn't raining and the sun was finally out!