Showing posts with label niece's birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label niece's birthday. Show all posts

Sunday, January 3, 2010

wii all had a great night!


Birthdays 'usually' are tremendous--unless they fall during the holidays.


My youngest niece and I have birthdays at the holidays.


Mom used to make sure my birthday never got buried and I try to do the same with anyone I know who experiences similar phenomena.


So not to sweep Colleen's birthday under the carpet, we celebrated her birthday on a day other than one of the holidays.....got her favorite pizza and just had a wonderful night all together.


Come on, anytime I can see her rugrats is a good day.


We played games, music, laughed, ate....and 5 and 1/2 hours later, were tuckered out....


Colleen and Sara serenaded us....with John always the bandleader and the jokester....


What a great night together first and foremost--even on one of the coldest nights of the year....toss in some good food, lots of laughter, cute dogs, and friendly competition--which spurred on even more laughter!!!

Friday, August 28, 2009

Happy Birthday, Sara!


I'm sensing the end of another tradition.


We used to go out for a special dinner for every one's birthday.


Honestly, with every one's busy schedules, that seemed to be the only time we all could gather each month, and it was nice.


Now, people feel that text messaging, tweeting, or leaving a greeting on Facebook is appropriate. Oh, how times are a changin'!


Well, today is my oldest niece's birthday and nothing has been planned.


She said she is helping someone move and had other plans all weekend long.


It's too bad. Mom really misses seeing all the kids. I hate to see the sadness and tears in her eyes each night as another day passes....



Hopefully one day soon Sara's schedule will clear out because Mom and I can not let a birthday go by without remembering and we have a special 'birthday bag' just waiting to be busted open!
Love, Us xoxo