Fifty Shades of Purple

Oh brother, what a week....after my fall last Sunday, my face has progressed to several shades of purple, and is now at the putrid green and gaggy burgundy stages.  Yesterday, I asked Sarah  (who flew in Saturday night) if she could throw a few highlights in my hair to match!

 

 Yes, I'm thinking of being a professional eye model...Today my hope is that I feel good enough to work all day!  (And, P.S., I did it!)
Yesterday was our sweet Corbin's 5th birthday and although I wasn't exactly looking forward to going to Chucky Cheese, it was really a fun time.  I was reflecting back to the years where Rory, Emma and Elijah had their parties there, and that place has come a long ways to improve upon their parties.  It was organized (pretty impressive with the number of kids attending), the food was good (!) and the kids had a fabulous time and were able to trade their winning tickets in for some pretty swell (?) prizes at the end.

 The biggest hit at the party was the ticket explosion booth where the birthday boy had a minute to gather all of the tickets he could.

 

He exited with over 1000 in winning tickets which he traded for some nice (?) prizes.

Afterwards, we had part 2 of the birthday back at our house with our Sunday dinner.  We asked Corbin what he wanted for his birthday dinner and after a few moments, replied, "Hmmm, for the adults, I want spaghetti and for the kids, mac-n-cheese", so that's what we had.  Brad made his delicious spaghetti and meatballs and them some gooey cheesy macaroni for the kids. All the while, Sarah was coloring and cutting between courses!

Next generation red hatter?

 

It was so much fun having her here, as well as Emi.  Gosh, she's a doll and reminds us so much of Gabi at that age! And she and Grayson had fun together (and BTW, hadn't bathed together for

awhile!) Gabi and Sophie played salon after Sophie got her hair cut and while Rory got his done.

After dinner, we had some more cake and ice cream and it was about then that I knew I had done WAY too much for that day and was hurting a ton....Ok, lesson learned....

  Brad and I did enjoy another anniversary on Friday (our 44th) and celebrated Saturday night after playing bridge with our Ft. Collins friends.  We went to dinner at The Main Line Bistro in oldtown, which was such a gorgeous place.  The food was pretty good, but the company was AWESOME.  We have missed seeing the FabFtCollinsFour, Beth & Rhonda and their husbands Fred and Fred.  We didn't do all that well at bridge, but plan to get back into it now that Fall is right around the corner.  We have plans to play in Cheyenne at the end of the month.  It sure feels like Fall is in the air and after a kazillion record breaking hot days, I'm ready!