This weekend we celebrated my mom's 60th birthday. What is more amazing than the fact that nine of her eleven children showed up, was that we kept it a secret. We arrived in waves throughout the weekend, and she burst into tears each time another of her children walked through the door.
At the end of the weekend I caught a ride with two of my sisters to Vegas. We checked into our airport hotel and then headed for the Strip.
I love my sister Madi's pink hair. I told her she looks like a "Fraggle" and she said, "What's a Fraggle?" Ah, the ignorance of the young!
It was so fun lecturing Carolyn about the dangers of becoming a degenerate gambler. We agreed it's all fun and games until you check out of your hotel at four o'clock in the morning and walk through a casino filled with dried up, desperate, pathetic gamblers still glued to the slot machines. No thank you.
And we were corrupting a minor in the process!
Yet, in the end I had a fabulous weekend, and left remembering how much I love my family. All of us had to re-arrange schedules, farm out kids and spend money we didn't want to spend in order to be there for my mom, but it was worth it. Three days of eating peanut M&M's and playing "Apples to Apples" might not seem important, but somehow it is.
Looks like a great weekend, i hope all went well. You look so cute and well, cant wait to see you next year. Ill call you in the next week or so, love ya.x
ReplyDeleteYou gal look like you had a great time. It was so great to see you all this past weekend. Hope to see you soon at the wedding.
ReplyDeletei'm so glad you got to go! what a great family you have… and i agree, apples to apples and m&m's really are important!
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