We celebrated Caitlyn's birthday a little early this year to accommodate the schedules of some of our guests. Not to say that we had that many people over, but it is always hard to schedule get togethers because everybody has other things going on. Really, it was just Caitlyn's grandparents on both sides and Auntie Marian.
Also, since Christian's dad's birthday is tomorrow, we usually celebrate his birthday together with Caitlyn's.
It was a really hot weekend. We had planned to make paella and toast some fresh bread to go with it on the grill. Christian pretty much got a case of mild heat stroke doing it!
Luckily, Marian made it early enough to bring an EZ-Up to give him a little shelter from the sun. I'm sure it would have been worse otherwise. But, boy was it tasty! Marian was the one who got us the paella pan after a trip she took to Spain with her sister.
We did stay outside to eat on the porch as there really isn't enough room in the dining room for everyone, but when we were done, we had to retreat back into the house for presents and cake.
Auntie Wendy sent a present over with my mom as well so she scored quite a few presents so far and it's not even her birthday yet. The most memorable though, was Marian's. She did a whole "lady bug" theme including a red and black dress for the occasion. She had everything wrapped in many nested boxes. The present started out in a gigantic beanbag sized bag that was blown up so that it looked huge. Caitlyn had lots of fun searching for all the bits and pieces of her presents.
Grandpa had his own kind of fun with the leftover frosting of the cake!
But all the lady bug stuff just reminded me of when Caitlyn was just a wee little one. She used to have a lady bug Halloween costume that she was so cute in.
But, that was 5 and a half years ago now...sniff.
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