Weekend Recap (in Pictures)

What a wonderful weekend for our family!

On Saturday we celebrated the birthdays of three little peeps (grandsons who are about to turn one and three and a granddaughter who will turn two, in the course of three consecutive days this coming week).  The party was a Halloween-themed costume affair at the house of son #4 (the dad of the wee birthday girl/Pikachu) and it was fun. Crazy fun.  Emphasis on crazy!

I think I might have had a smudge on my lens, these photos are very blurry!

Our gifts to the little dinosaur-obsessed fella who's about to turn three were a truly classy dino-themed Garanimals outfit and more importantly, a 40" blow-up T-Rex.  I think you can tell by this photo (that his mom sent me after they got home and his dad inflated it) that it was a hit.

He loved it so much that he slept beside it!

If your Monday was feeling a big gloomy thus far, I bet it brightened up considerably after you saw that last picture, didn't it?  I don't even have to ask.  I know it did!  How much happier a place would the world be if something as simple as that inflatable dinosaur could produce as much joy in us as it does in this precious little boy?

Here's another image to brighten your Monday: my adorable 5-year-old granddaughter wearing the poodle skirt I made for her to wear for her school's Fifties-themed celebration today.  

My favorite little bobby-soxer!

Yesterday, my husband and I met up with our oldest boy's family at a nearby VA brewery for a very relaxed belated birthday celebration.  He didn't get home from work until late at night on his actual birthday a few days ago.  Instead of celebrating turning 38, he was flying his last trip for the airline he's been working for while they've been living in VA.  He starts training for a new company soon and then within a couple of months his family--including a little boy with four big sisters and another baby sister on the way--will be moving out to the Midwest.  

But Papa and Grammy (or "Papagrammy," as the triplets call both of us--you know, kind of like Brangelina) didn't want to dwell on that yesterday!  We wanted to enjoy the time we have with this sweet family, and we did.  My daughter-in-law and I brought supplies for a simple picnic, we ordered some beers, and when the kids weren't sitting at the picnic table chatting with us or sitting on our laps, they were running around the fields.  It was 70 degrees and sunny, the scenery was bucolic, the company was delightful...it was a perfect Sunday afternoon.

I feel like an old-school blogger here.  Sitting down to get this posted was the first thing I did this morning (after I made a cup of coffee, of course!).  I'm not saying this will be a trend, but it feels like the early days here at String of Pearls--make that String o' Pearls.

I hope you have a great week, dear readers.