You're invited...

I LOVE when the girls get their imagination going...and I especially love when someone tells me that they are taking care of Sunday Dinner!

Lindsay and Caroline presented us with our invitation after lunchtime on Sunday afternoon. Exactly as worded on the invite:

"We will be having dinner at 6:00, outside. When we are done with dinner we will go on a family walk. Then we will come back and have dessert."

Derections: Dress like you are going to a ball for dinner.

Thank you!

Oo la la!!

The Refreshments Spread (They kept calling it refreshments...) pizza, sunflower seeds, water, crystal light, fruit leather and granola bars, mac n' cheese, ice, rice cakes, and applesauce with cinnamon.

The fancy table.

All day long they worked on the preparations. I kept wondering what they would plan for dinner. They set the small table outside with a table cloth, the fancy pink and green dishes, stemware, and a centerpiece. (Really, we have had this same small patio table since we lived in an apartment a gazillion years ago and have never upgraded patio furniture. It has seen better days...) They brought their tea party table outside to hold all the "refreshments." They kept wanting to fix the food but we kept reminding them that a frozen pizza and macaroni and cheese are better prepared right before they are eaten so they got out things like rice cakes and granola bars and sunflower seeds, mixed some Crystal Light - you know, the things you can prepare ahead of time. :)




The girls chose fancy dresses for themselves to wear and picked a dress for me, jewelry and shoes for me. (A dress I bought to wear on a cruise 4 years ago...) Steve looked handsome in a dark suit, of course!

We came outside to the table and an announcement was made: "After dinner we will have dancing. "

We dined and laughed together and had the best time! Once Steve augmented his dinner with a hot dog, everyone was satisfied.

Kate joined us after a while - she was still asleep when the party began - it was supposed to be a 6:00pm party but the girls were so excited it got moved up to 5:30. We had pulled up the car so Kate could drink her milk.

Steve went inside and grabbed the kitchen radio/iPod speaker doc thing and played some tunes. We danced and played ring around the rosie and Lindsay showed us her disco skills! We just channel surfed for music, whatever sounded good at the time.

Then, before it got too dark, we went for a neighborhood walk with the new wagon Kate got for her birthday. (We celebrated a little early when Shelly, Joe, and Grandma were in town - a joint cousin Zac and Kate party - will post on that later.)

Afterward we sat on a blanket under the stars eating ice cream sandwiches and helped Lindsay work on her poem recitation that was due for school Monday. Really, it was a dreamy night.

I love this little family of ours - we should party more often!