Summer Birthdays
We tend to celebrate birthdays in batches – summer birthdays and winter birthdays. My mom, my niece and my nephew have their birthdays in August, so we generally celebrate summer birthdays in August at our place. And this year was no exception.
So Saturday we had about 20 people over for dinner. It happened that our church was having a take out lobster dinner that night, so I offered people the choice of burgers and dogs or buying the lobster dinner from our church. It was split 50/50 – half did the lobster and half did the grilled stuff. The Hubby grilled as I went and picked up the lobsters. We had ice cream, ice cream cake, brownies and cookies for dessert. Yum!
As it got dark, The Hubby pulled out the fireworks we had gotten in MO on our cross country drive. He and The Boy, with occasional assistance from a cousin or two, set them off to lots of “ohhhh” and “ahhhh” from the crowd. I have to admit, those were some pretty decent fireworks. When The Hubby set off the first one, he didn’t think it was going to be very loud, so he didn’t bother taking the dogs in. He should have. Chewie went absolutely nuts. I got them in the house and behind our bedroom door for the rest of the show. But Chewie was so upset, he wouldn’t go out of the house for the rest of the night. Pansy, however, was more than content to hang out by the fire pit and get attention from the little cousins.
My brother, his wife and three boys spent the night in a tent in our backyard, and my parents brought over their camper and parked in my driveway for the night. Sunday morning we had fresh farm eggs, scrambled up by The Hubby, as well as sausage, hash browns, bagels and juice/coffee. Everyone stayed until noontime and then it was time for my brother to head back to Boston.
Both The Hubby and I were dead tired, but we had promised to go to see Inglorious Basterds with friends in the afternoon, so away we went. It was a pretty good movie – I’m not upset to have paid money to see it. We had our friends come over for dinner after since we still had so much food left over from the party.
But, reality was setting in – by 9, I was totally ready for bed. We snuggled up and watched True Blood and Hung, and I could barely keep my eyes open. It was one of best nights of sleep I have had in a long time!