Someone in Florida Loves Me

It was that time year again, gradution that is. My cousin Sharla was finally getting her turn to graduate from high school and that meant that family was going to fly in from Florida. This year it was my Aunt, 2 cousins, my cousins boyfriend and their daugther who turned 7 months on the 16th. We spent all day Saturday in the yard and in the house cleaning and getting ready for an additional 5 guests in the house plus the family BBQ I was hosting here on Sunday. I was beyond irritated becuase a certain someone I live with wanted everything to be perfect and I just wanted it to be presentable to get us through the few days they were here. Well their flight was supposed to get in Saturday night at 9:30 AM but it was delayed until 1:30 AM which meant I was staying home with the baby to catch up on sleep. I did wake up at 3:30 to welcome everybody and quickly say Hello before going back to sleep. This now brings us to Sunday morning, which was crazy hectic. Not only did I have to set up the decorations outside and tables but I still needed to make all the salads, cupcakes and get the meat ready. After a few hiccups with the grill not starting right away and my frosting for the cupcakes turning out wrong due to rancid crisco everything went amazing. Photos are soon to follow of the all the festivities. Sunday night we mapped out the next 2 days and decided that we would all go up to Seattle for a day of space needle visiting, seattle center food eating and pike place market walking. Tuesday was the graduation and graduation party and Wednesday they all went back to Florida. The babies were so cute playing together and it was so amazing having a full house. I didn't cook once minus the BBQ but we were on the go the whole time food was never a priority for us! Photos will follow in the next few blogs of their quick visit plus somemore recent happenings. I have 3 new books I am excited to tell you about!