It's been a busy few weeks at our house with a lot to celebrate. The last week of Justin's school, Audrey's birthday, a new baby and Mother's Day all fell close together. Let's start with Audrey's birthday:
Since we're right in the middle of moving and we knew we were going to have a big party at Grandma's house later in the week, we decided to keep Audrey's birthday small this year. She wanted a ballerina party so we wrapped up some ballet birthday presents and she got to have two friends over for dinner. (pancakes per her request)
Then there was a small gathering at the ISU History Department to celebrate the students graduating from their program.
Afterward we packed up Justin's office and took a corny picture to remember it by, then turned in his keys.
On Saturday morning Justin surprised me with flowers and some new ramekins (I've been wanting some new ones, in white of course) for Mother's Day since we'd be with my family on Sunday.
He also gave me his "Stole of Gratitude" and a sweet card for helping him through school.
Loved it.
After that we packed up and headed down to Twin Falls to have a nice goodbye lunch with Justin's family, then we drove to Wendell to have a baby blessing/graduation/mother's day/goodbye/birthday party at my parents house. They invited my whole family including grandparents, Aunts and Uncles and cousins. It was so great to see everyone.
We ate too much of my family's famous baked beans and my Mom's delicious texas sheet cake
My sweet Mother went to a lot of trouble to make sure that Justin was fawned over properly for all of his hard work in school.
And Audrey got a proper not-store-bought ballerina birthday cake.
Then about 30 people sang to her and we opened presents.
We snuggled Beth's darling baby lots
but the best part, for me: seeing everyone all together.
(and sitting around until 9:30 at night listening to my Dad and my Uncles telling old horse stories and laughing and laughing. )
It was a great party that required lots of time and effort from both my parents.
Thank you so much!
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