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Over the weekend we celebrated my Papa’s 80th Birthday!!!!

I love family parties!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While we were all together, we celebrated my husband’s and brother’s birthday and my sister’s engagement!  It was so nice to see everyone.  Getting together with my family is one of my FAVORITE things to do in the whole world.

I am the oldest of 11 children. 

That’s right, 11!

Here is a picture of all of us  form this summer.

 

I always get lot of questions after I tell someone that.  They usually ask me these questions in this order, lol….

“Do you have any twins?”   No.

“Are all the kids from the same marriage?”  Yes.

“Are you Catholic?”  Yes.

“Were you homeschooled?”  Yes.

“Are you going to homeschool?”  Yes.

“How old are you?” 25

“How old is your youngest sibling?” He just turned 3.  (that’s who’s birthday we celebrated)

“How old are your kids?”  Grace 4, Michael almost 3 and Matthew 1.  And yes, my mom and I were pregnant together.

Here is a picture….I know she will just die when she sees this. (She gets my posts via email) lol  Look, we even dress the same!  hee hee!  I just noticed that now.  We both love to wear pink, black stretch pants and slippers!! lol!  Michael’s uncle is only 2 months older than him and Grace is older that her uncle!  Isn’t that sooo funny!!!

 

“Where did you all sleep?”  Why do they ask me that?  Where do they think we slept.  Yes, we each had our own bed!!!!  But we did share rooms most of the time.

“Are you going to have a big family?”  We are just trying to do God’s will. We are open to life.  

Those are some of the questions that I get and it is so funny because everyone really does ask me those questions in that order!!!

Anyway, here are some pictures from the party at my mom’s house.

We LOVE food and our parties are known for always having way too much of it.

This is a homemade chocolate cheesecake ball that my Grandma made, yum!

Yummmmm, butter!

To fit everyone together, they set up tables in their basement.  The adults are closer to the window and the kid”s table is the table with all the “cars” stuff (for my brother’s birthday).

They always have to so cute and fun!

The always make the cutest little name tags for everyone.

Here is everyone minus my brother who was in Florida for college baseball and me because I was taking the photo.

Front right: Michael, Front left: his Uncle Johnathon (hehe)  They are so cute!

Here is my sister playing with Grace.  My kids absolutely LOVE going to grandma’s house.  They ask, “Are we going to the grandma’s house with the kids?” lol!

This is my Grandma and Papa (dad’ parents) looking through the picture book that we gave my Papa for his 80th birthday.  My sister-in-law,  Ann Marie made it and did a wonderful job.  They loved it!

She is not camera shy, lol! 

I love that baby soooo much!  

Here is my sister Elisabeth getting gifts for her engagement.

I took some pictures of their house it show you.  If you think that I am good and garage saling, you should see her house.

Here is the family room.  They need a LOT of seating! 

Living Room

Study

 

Here is my parent’s room.

Master bath

Their closet (my mom is so organized)

  

Here is my sister’s room (This is were we sleep when visiting) Isn’t it so cute???

That is my sister Rachelle in their craft corner.

There room is over their 3 car garage and it didn’t have a closet, so they made this.

Here is their downstairs hall bath.  (they just re-did this room) 

  

These are just a couple of their rooms!  There house is really neat and the decor is always changing.  Click here to see their fall décor and here to see their Christmas decor.

I hope that you enjoyed these pictures of my family and my parent’s house.

Bonnie :)

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This week we celebrated my husband’s birthday!  I just had to show you how I set the table.  To be honest with you,  I never set our table with this much stuff on it and I had total blast!!!!  It could be that I just got all new dishes from my mother-in-law.  That is a great story that I will tell you about soon.  Anyway here is some pictures.  Sorry about the lighting, I didn’t know it would take that long to set a table and I lost a lot of sun.  I hope you like them.

 

 

I didn’t know what I wanted to use as a centerpiece so I used candles, flowers and strawberries.  I think it looked good and the kids loved the fruit.  They ate about a 1/4 of them before Scott even came home, lol!

    

I hope that you like it!  I had a lot of fun setting it up.  I will defiantly be doing more tablescapes in the future!

I hope that you have a great weekend!!!!

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I will be linking up to some of these fun parties!

Bonnie :)

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