Birthdays

Today was a birthday party celebrating day, and it all happened at our house.  Yesterday was Brick's first birthday, and while Mikayla and Guy celebrated at home, they also wanted to have a big party with family.  Mikayla chose a monster theme and wanted to have breakfast at Rock Canyon Park, but we woke to wind and rain and knew it wasn't going to happen outside.  So, because I was going to host a party in the afternoon for Aunt Georgianne and our house was clean and party ready, we moved it inside our house.  

Mikayla has really gone to a lot of work with the monster theme.  The green cups all had monster faces, she made monster placemats, and had a funny monster watermelon throwing up fruit.  She made coffee cake, scrambled eggs, and bacon, and invited lots of people.  All the DeMartinis came, as well as quite a few Johnsens.  I think we were about thirty people.  Even though it was a bit chaotic, what with all the little people running around (literally), it was fun to be together, and certainly fun to celebrate Brick, a delightfully joyous addition to the family.

 

 

We cleared people out of the house after Brick's party, did a quick clean up of the floor, and launched into preparations for Georgianne's party.  Georgianne turned 70 on Tuesday, and Mom and I decided that was an accomplishment worth celebrating.  We offered to throw her a party and I agreed to host at my house because we invited people from her neighborhood and my house is closer to her than Mom's.  We had fruit, cheese and crackers, a beautiful green salad, a pasta salad, rolls, cookies (two kinds--shortbread and chocolate), and cake.  Everything looked beautiful, and everything tasted wonderful.  Georgianne had stipulated that if we were going to have a party for her, she wanted presents, but she wanted specific presents--flowery or green growing things she could put in her yard.  As her neighbors and friends arrived, my porch ended up looking very cheerful with all their contributions.  The only real negative thing was that not that many people showed up.  I had sent out about 50 invitations to family and friends, and we didn't have more than about 25 people show up.  For those of us who were there, however, it was a fun time, and a delight to celebrate Georgianne.