Good Lord the Crowleys have been busy with Birthdays! Let the good times roll though! We'll start with the weekend before last. My Mom and Dad came out to our lakehouse for the weekend and we had a blast! They came up on Friday night, but Bryon was still getting home from LA, so I took them out to Crandalls for birthday dinner #1. You see my parents birthdays are within a few days of each other so that is why we have one big birthday celebration! They love Crandalls in Hebron, IL, if you have never been...you should go. All you can eat broasted chicken... the best chicken anywhere! AND the best chocolate cake EVER. After dinner I snuck to the "bathroom" and ordered up the giant chocolate mess with two candles. Poor Bry missed the best part!!
On Saturday, we headed up to Milwaukee for Summerfest. We met my cousin, Courtney and her hubs and also Coach, Julie, Paul & Jody were up as well. We listened to some tunes, drank some brews and wandered around until the rain shut us down. It was fun anyway...but we headed home earlier than had we been drinking dry. Dripping wet just isn't as enjoyable. ;)
Sunday was windy but beautiful... we had a wonderful breakfast on the deck and took off down to the pier to enjoy the day. It was mom's actual birthday and I think she enjoyed it. We took her out to our favorite Italian joint, Paisano's in Richmond (again if you haven't been there you need to go). It was so flipping good I thought we would all explode!! Mom had birthday gelato as well! She is the cutest birthday girl.
Monday night we headed back to Illinois to the Crowleys to celebrate two of our nephews birthdays. Bryon's sister, Suzy and her family were in from Colorado and joined the regular crew.
This past weekend, we held Bryon's mother's family reunion/combination 4th of July party up at the lake on Friday. We hosted 38 people, many being cousins that hadn't seen each other in years. Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. We had so much good food and great fun! I think everyone is thinking it may be an annual event! After everyone left on Saturday...we took the rest of the weekend to recover. Throwing parties wears you out! I also need rehab from CAKE and Cookies and any other sweets that I have inhaled in the past couple of weeks!
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