On July 9th, Mimi's church had a triple birthday celebration for three of their members who turn 90 this summer. Mimi is one of them! Mimi's actual birthday isn't until the end of August, but the other two honorees had their birthdays earlier in the summer.
We kicked off the day with a little pre-party reading entertainment.
And Mimi and Wesley watched some video footage from our California trip on the iPhone.
Here is the camera crew gearing up for the event.
First, there was some congregational singing. Each honoree got to pick three of their favorite hymns. It was a little tough to keep two little boys content during every verse of nine songs! Then we got around to eating barbeque that was smoked by one of the members. It was pretty tight quarters, so there was a lot of socializing to be done before we all got through the line. It was worth the wait!
Wesley entertained himself with Mimi's "Birthday Girl" balloon which she happily handed over to him.
Wesley was proud to write his own name in Mimi's HUGE card
Then came time for cake and ice cream. Each birthday boy/girl got to pick their own flavor of cake. Mimi chose Italian cream. The other two were chocolate and carrot cake. Members also supplied various flavors of yummy homemade ice cream.
Wesley chose carrot cake
The happy birthday girl
Wesley and Curtis had some fun little playmates
Once the festivities were over, Mimi took all of her goodies to the couch and thoroughly enjoyed looking through each and every card and gift. She looked especially cute (and happy) reading all of the notes on her humongous card that everyone signed. There were lots of chuckles, and then she concluded her time, with "Well, that was very heart-warming!" And then she invited me to read through all of them myself. I obliged. :)
Here is Curtis enjoying his latest book installment from Misha and Gin-Gin when we returned home. He is learning new words all the time!
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