Dos Fiestas

Holy cow! What a weekend! We had, not one, but TWO birthday parties at our house on Saturday, and boy were they fun! We started the day with a little party for our Claycito, who is turning ONE on Saturday, if you can believe that. Since he's our Cinco de Mayo baby, the theme was fiesta all the way. We had fajitas, carnitas, Spanish rice and guacamole on the menu. (And, we ran almost completely out of food, which is absolutely unheard of--and supremely embarrassing--for Watts. Jeff's dad may never let us live it down)! I set the kids' real Mexican sombreros around for decorations. There was a large cake with maracas on it for the guests, and Clay-sized maraca cake for the birthday boy. And, we had the teeniest, tiniest, most perfect pinata for our Little Bitty. We were so glad to be joined in our celebration by so many members of our extended family.

ONE!

Getting our fiesta on

A cake to shake things up

"Happy Birthday to you!"

Sharing some cake

Trying to get every last bite

A Clay-sized pinata

When that party died down, we fired up a party for my mom, who turned 60 last Sunday. I had put together a little slide show of pictures spanning all those years (thanks in great part to my grandmother), which we all enjoyed watching. We ate the most tender and delicious ribs, homemade potato salad and a wonderful, creamy Jell-o salad, made by my sister. And then, we had Dulce de Leche cake for dessert. THE SHOES, with a few modifications, even made an appearance during the gift-giving time. And, at Mom's request, Ruth performed some of her piano pieces and her PSIA poem. It was so much fun to laugh and remember and visit and celebrate my incredible mom.

Birthday Buddies

Mom is supicious

Modeling her shoes, while a younger version of herself looks on

THE Shoes

A scrapbook with contributions from the whole family

Make a wish

Ruth performs...

...And entertains

We feel truly blessed to have such an amazing extended family, and we thoroughly enjoyed getting to spend this time together celebrating the lives of some of our favorite people!