P-A-R-T-Y

Birthday weekend well done!

Starting from last night…

The room was set with steamers and balloons.

My attempt at making lupines out of balloons.  Pretty good, no?

Menus were printed.

Flowers were amazing!

Favors were assembled (Homemade maple, almond blueberry granola).

Then it was party time!

My mom’s friends are huge winos, but Nick and I just picked the ones that tasted best to us.  I know nothing about mushroom and leather flavors???

My mom looks great for 60 – on the right.

Homemade cream puffs!

There was dancing.

And presents.

Plus lots of champagne!

Overall I think my mom had a blast with a bunch of good friends. Not the best picture of us, but the only one.

Nick was even there!

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SUNDAY

After walking up a bit later today we had a plan to head out to Kent for the day.  The weather has been amazing and the leaves are just about to peak!

This was my favorite tree to watch change during the soccer season.

The old pitch.  Pretty nice landscape to play against.

We did the usual round about town and visited the many fall decorations and some of the more permanent art.

Gourds and cheese wheel pumpkins and the Kent Garden Center

This screams fall!

For lunch we attempted to climb to numeral rock, but only made it about half way before calling it quits. It was pretty steep.

Last stop on the tour was a send off for Andy on his plane.

The sky was amazingly blue today.  Not a cloud out there.

I told him I would go up at some point but small planes can make me feel sick.  I think Nick would hyperventilate just getting near a plane like this.

There was also a small helo doing practice maneuvers while were were on the tarmac.

And then he was off!

A perfect send off to a busy birthday weekend.

Nick, my mom and I spent the evening grilling and just relaxing with a movie.  Now it is time to get some sleep!