Yes, I know, it's been almost two weeks since my birthday, but as you will see below, it was a great one this year! Well, birthday week really =: )
My last 'big' birthday was 16...my parents threw a huge surprise party for me, under the guise of a huge party for my sister and brother-in-law who were visiting from Seattle. So ALL of our family and friends were there, and they were all in on it...tons of fun. And good memories.
I can't remember what I did for my 17th birthday, or 18th, or 19th, or 23, or 24th, you get the idea. Either school, or college was done for the summer, or getting married, or pregnant, you name it. Birthdays just haven't been one of those special days for the last decade. But of course, there have been many other special things to outshine over the last decade too, for which I'm very thankful.
But this year there was nothing in May that was exciting, or at least as exciting as the idea of doing a high tea!
I enjoy every aspect of having people over and putting on a lovely meal, when I'm not rushed. I had time to make favors ( a week before), my dear mother came to help me for 6 hours the day before, and by the time all my guests arrived, I got to just relax and sit and visit =: )
I had chicken salad filled cream puffs (a delicious memory from my sister's wedding 14 years ago, see how good food sticks in my mind?), of course cucumber sandwiches, deviled eggs, and tomato basil tarts...
And I got to pull down and use all my pretty teacups that I collected in high school.
16 women were able to come, so our patio table moved into our living room to make room for all the fun!
Need I even speak?
Friends from over a decade ago (and still going strong!)
Friends from less than a decade ago, and so glad they could all come!
My oldest friends (of course not in age, but I've known these lovely ladies for 23 years!)
I'm so bummed I don't have pictures of everyone that came! But ah well, too much visiting, not enough photographing...such is my life!
It was such a huge success that I think I need to make this a yearly thing. Maybe not for my birthday, but a May High Tea does sound like music when one has just gone through January, February, March, and April with no high teas in them.
And lest you think my husband was on sweet baby sleeping duty with no fun, we had a trip earlier that week, JUST THE TWO OF US, to Hershey Park. Yes, he took the day off on the most beautiful Wednesday of them all and we went to Hershey with no children (made possible to us by Luke and Evan's wonderful aunt and uncle and grandparents!), ate at Fuddruckers afterward (where we had to dash in as two buses were pulling up in front of us!) and enjoy a pleasant drive home. Funny though how tired we were...I guess we're getting old. Although I think it was due to the fact that there were NO lines, so we just went from ride to ride with hardly any break at all.
Ok, Evan has just crawled the entire length of the hallway and into Luke's room... It might be the end of my little world as I know it, but I feel fine...
Have a good one!
