What a Weekend It Was

I have been insanely busy lately. I am very fortunate that, in this economy, I am able to work as much as I am. But I am swamped. During the week I work really hard and really long so that I am able to take my weekends off. And this weekend was a perfect example of that. But we were busy; just in a different way. My family partied.

That means SUCH different things than it did a few years ago... But Friday night we hosted the birthday party for my 88 year old grand mother. It was fun, it was special for her, and she is still rockin' pretty hard for an 88 year old. In all sincerity, she moved down here about 4 years ago after selling her house to be close to me and The Boy and it has been so special to see the two of them become so close. She mentioned on her birthday how special the last few years have been for her because of her relationship with my kids and that means a lot.

So after that party was over we went to bed only to get up the next day and head to my BFF's son's first birthday party. And guess what? The Boy went in the bouncy house almost the whole time. That is epic for him. He was always that kid that didn't want anything to do with the bouncy house but he did great. Then he was off to his last soccer practice for this season. On a side note, he spent a lot of time pretending to be a frog this weekend...

So then to finish up the weekend, on Sunday we hosted a party for a bunch of old friends. Like friends I seriously haven't seen in 10 years that I had reconnected with because of a certain social media site. It was a great day. One of those days where seeing old friends is the greatest thing in the world because they still seem so...the old friends, but then somehow we all seem to have grown up and matured. In a good way. But we still all reconnected like it used to be. One of those days where your children amazingly play outside like little angels together for hours while you sit and actually get to have several lengthy conversations with your old friends. And you wonder, "Whose kids are those?" because they are so sweet and play so well with everyone... It was just a really good day.

We were busy all weekend long, but we had a great time. Both of them crashed super early Sunday evening in preparation of the week ahead. Here is The Girl rockin' her party dress on Saturday afternoon.
She looks like that phone she's holding should be a martini glass or something. She amuses the hell out of me. Hope everyone had a great weekend. I have another busy week but also have some blog posts floating around in my head regarding my son going back into speech therapy tomorrow morning for the first time in almost a year, and my daughter and the follow up on the bite thing. Will write soon...