A Day of PARTIES!

Yesterday was a full and busy day of fun!  We had three parties to attend, and luckily none of them conflicted with each other! 

First of all, Saturday morning our cul-de-sac had our 5th annual summer breakfast in the circle which also turned into a good-bye party for us.  I am feeling so sad even as I type this to think that this was our last summer breakfast party here.  We have loved this cul-de-sac; it is full of wonderful, friendly people who are sincerely good neighbors and great friends.  We will miss being part of this circle dearly.

Anyway, back to the breakfast - thank you so much everyone for a lovely morning!  The food was delicious, the weather felt perfect, and we had so much fun visiting with everyone.  I didn't think to get my camera out until after more than half of the neighborhood and disbursed and gone home, but I did get a few pictures.

Katelee with the next-door-neighbor girls, Lia and Laura.

More neighborhood kids: Jake, Lia, Josh, Katelee, Reagan, LauraCollecting bugs (of course).Val and Brenda's beautiful yard, where they hosted the breakfast. 

 The kids are still collecting bugs.

The start of Katelee's bug collection for the morning.  I didn't get a picture, but later she must have had 30 or 40 bugs in that one hand!  ;)  

Later that afternoon Katelee and I were invited to attend a birthday party at the Discovery Musuem for one of Katelee's sweet little friends who was turning four.  We carpooled up to the museum with some other friends, and had an absolute blast!  First, we went to the 'birthday room' where the kids dressed up like royalty, played a few games, opened gifts and enjoyed cupcakes.  If you know anything about Katelee, then you know that she was in heaven wearing these beautiful princess dresses!

Princess Katelee
Arts and craftsTelling her friend on the phone all about the party!The darling birthday girl!Katelee & AlexisOther sweet friendsKatelee kept changing her dress because she couldn't decide which one was prettiest. Eating delicious cupcakes!The whole gang.

After the birthday room we went and played in the children's museum for a while.  We both had so, so much fun!  

Later that evening, our family had a little bridal shower for our soon-to-be sister-in-law, Bonnie.  We had a lot of fun!  The guys and the kids all went over to the Willden's to hang out, and all the girls came over to my house.  We ate homemade Cafe Rio salads (I'll post the recipes sometime) and LeRita's homemade cheesecake.  Yum!  We also played that funny game where Bonnie had to answer questions about Geoff.  She actually did really, really well (they were hard questions!) but still had about 8 pieces of chewing gum in her mouth by the end.  It probably almost broke her jaw, but she was a great sport about it and we had a lot of laughs! We gave Bonnie her gift, then we visited and chatted and laughed until it was time to go.  It was nice to spend time together!

Here is a picture of Bonnie with Mom Reynolds.

Whew!  What a fun day!