Happy Happy Birthday Vick Guys

40 years ago Friday Tal and John entered into this world. Now separated by many miles, Washington State and Az, they remain as close as every. Jennifer laid the ground work to bring them together for their 40th birthday celebration. From the save the date cards from Starbucks. to the invitations and ending in a dinner for family and friends, she planned it all. It was a wonderful tribute to Tal and John enjoyed by their closest friends and family.

So last nite was the final hooray at CIBO Urban Pizzaria. In downtown Phoenix on 5th Ave this is a quaint very popular place. The restaurant looked like it had been an old house and we were lucky enough to be seated in the carriage house behind the main building. It landed just the perfect atmosphere for a celebration. Good food, wine and great friends and family helped John and Tal welcome in the big 40!

I will warn you all now there are a lot of photos as friends and family unable to join us requested pictures. It seems my camera was well used as many people were taking pics. When I got home there were way over 120 pics from our little party.

John and Tal

John and Jenn

Patio of the carriage house

wine corner

Inside the carriage house

Anthony and I. Anthony's hat was worn by all and many many pics resulted in his hat

Sadera and I

The girls

Anthony

My beer

Jenn's pizza it was a white pizza pesto potato and onion so so good

John and Tal with their Aunt Lezlie and Uncle Larry

Sadera and the Winn twins

Scott and Cassie


Winns with their twin boys and Anthony Yeap 2 sets of twins for them It seemed like a twin reunion

John and Matt (fellow band member)

John and Scott (another band member)

After dinner espresso

And finally to die for cupcakes from a new business in Tempe Great great delicious cupcakes

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Stockings Were Hung

Image
I hosted a small group for a Christmas Stocking Swap. I kept the group small due to my time and work constraints and deadlines I was facing. My idea for the swap came from a wonderful online class I took with Nancy Maxwell James of Sugar Lump Studios . I really enjoyed her class and all her helpful tips and so the idea was born. I assigned secret partners, to each of the members as well as a Dec 10th deadline. Christine suggested we all wait and open our boxes on the same day. So today is the reveal. The stocking are gorgeous and it has been fun as the photos came in to see how each of us interpreted the theme. We designed and filled our stockings with goodies and then mailed to our partner. Below are the photos of our stockings and a little thank you I sent to each of the gals. The stockings are in no particular order just how they came up on the computer. I am already thinking of next year :) and what we could do and to being more organized time wise so I can invite more ga
Read more

Summer Tag Swap

Image
**********EDITED*************** Tag swap is closed there are now 15 participants. I will email the details to all this weekend. Thanks to everyone for joining Sherry I will be hosting another tag swap and everyone is invited to join. It will be a "Good Ole Summertime Theme" Think of all the memories of your best summers: Beach, Lemonade, Swimming, Camping, Vacations, Sight Seeing, Playing with kids on your block, Baseball, Catching Fireflies at Night, the 4th of July, & Picnics. I guess I could go on and on but any summer theme you would like is fine. Here are the details: 1. Sign ups open till Monday June 10th or until 15 participants have signed up 2. You can email me at bammydon@att.net or leave a comment on this post 3. Make/create 15 tags and mail to me by the 21st of July 4 Tag size 4 3/4 x 2 3/8 (standard shipping size) 5. Put your name, email and blog addresses on the back of the tag 6. Stamp, paint, college, sew whatever you want to create no limits 7. Just hav
Read more

Today: Chaos, Cooking, Cleaning and Creating

Image
What a day. I think I put the "Labor" into Labor Day. After yesterday, where I basically sat all day I needed to get going. And get going I did. From laundry to cleaning to grocery shopping to creating I have had a busy day. I have decided that what I eat sucks. I rarely cook a good meal and then at bedtime I am back to starving. So in my great wisdom I decided I needed to get with it and start fixing better meals for myself. Cooking for 1 is not the most inspiring thing. I am so used to cooking for larger groups and I tend to make too much. any how armed with a list for the grocery store and determination I headed out. I shopped and shopped, loaded all the groceries into the car and unloaded all the groceries from the car when I got home. From there it was a whirlwind of mixing and making my meals for the week. But let's be honest I probably made enough for 2 weeks plus. Groceries waiting to be put away and made into meals It only took about 30 minutes to whip this all t
Read more