Happy Birthday, Sister!!

Any ideas who that is?? If you guessed my brother & nephew, W, that I haven't seen in 10 months. You'd be correct. The last any of us heard, they would try to make it, but they didn't answer anyone's phone calls all weekend. We were hanging out on the porch at my sister's birthday party & they pull up. I've never seen my sister happier than to have all of her family together for her birthday. She just kept jumping up & down going, "This is the best birthday EVER!" I'm glad they came. I had a walking-on-eggshells kind of feeling most of the night, and that can be emotionally exhausting, but it was still a good night. 

Uncle "HJ". My nieces were calling my brother "AJ" too. Oops.. guess it has been a long 10 months.

There were a ridiculous amount of children running around. Six of them ages: 8, 7, 3, 3, 1, 1. It was a LITTLE chaotic. 

AJ made my sister a painting for the house that they have NO room for stuff like that in.

I think we all learned a lesson with that cake. Not only did Liv (in the picture) have it everywhere, my 3 year old niece dropped hers on the couch, then dumped it upside down on the carpet, did the same thing on the table, somehow got blue icing on her foot, tracking it all over the carpet, got it on her shirt, and then cried because her cake was ruined. Maybe next time we'll have fruit for cake... or eat at the dining room table.

I did learn that pickled okra is not my friend. I learned about hair extensions via my SIL (I told you I have a problem letting my guard down again). I learned that AJ and I need to wait a while before we have a plethora (or just one) of children.