Jana, Joe, John and I decided that we wanted to throw Mom a party!
Planning and scheming, decorating and baking. Jana and I started the festivities on Friday night...making a grocery list, stopping at Ross to browse, then we were hungry and we grabbed a bite to eat (Zuppas, yum!). By the time we finally made it to Wal-mart to buy the groceries it was already 9:00 - by the time we got home, 10:30! {we definitely took our time parousing the isles} so about 11:00 pm we started to make cupcakes...
And let me tell you, they were delicious! and looked even better thanks to the neon food coloring Jana found. Whenever Jana and I are in the kitchen together, tasty things are produced. {cherry chip cupcakes with cream cheese frosting - funfetti cupcakes with butter cream frosting}
we finally got to putting up decorations around 1:30 and went to bed around 3:00! so fun and totally worth the late hours!
the waiting...
Mom ended up being about twenty minutes later than we expected... (this picture was supposed to be the beginning of a video, but ended up just being a picture...bummer.)
She had NO idea and definitely was surprised!
We invited all her Porchicas (neighborhood porch ladies) and their husbands to help us celebrate! (one porchica was missing from the pic)
We had lots of yummy food...pasta salad, home-made baked beans and burgers and dogs that John and Joe grilled - in the snow! I was really hoping the weather would have been nice, the whole affair was supposed to be on the back deck with fun outside activities. Oh well! It ended up just perfect.
and ALL of us were exhausted by the end of the fun!
We love you Mom!! Happy 50!!
What a lovely celebration! Looks like everyone had fun. Pumpkin looks POOPED! What did she do that was so exhausting? Ha! Happy birthday to your mom :)
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