Well, as most of you know, yesterday was Mrs A's birthday. As it happened, she was not quite up to a full scale ruckus and palooza like the kids generally have, but we did manage to pull together a small more sedate celebration to mark the occasion with the help of Justin & Kathy M. and family, Cass & Markie, and the seemingly ever-present Amanda. This brought the headcount more than high enough to qualify as an "official" palooza, under the well known international rules for such things.
We all managed to eat a large number of pizzas and other stuff and as is often the case, a crowd gathered in the family room to view some goofy video on youtube featuring a creepy gnome and other nonsense, until the wacky-zaniness grew out-of-control. Also out of control was the younger crowd, who had morphed into a collection of assorted superheros of some sort or another.
later on, although Mrs. A was slightly insistent about not being given any gifts, Kathy& Co. blatantly ignored that directive, and presented this lovely begonia-type-thing to a SHOCKED Mrs. A. Look at the surprise on her face! Not wanting to be outdone, Markie, on behalf of himself and Cass, presented her with this awesome Verizon FIOS PEN!!! She was so overwhelmed, that she held this pose for over twenty minutes, just taking in the awesomeness of the pen. Continuing the writing-implement theme, Andrew and Amanda gave her a cool color-changing pencil. And finally, she unwrapped her birthdaymobile. WOO-HOO, Happy Birthday!
All in all we had a great time. The only cloud over the day was poor Chaz, who joined in with the festivities for a while, but ended up suffering miserably with the continuing aftermath of his 4X wisdom tooth removal of a few days earlier. He is generally the life of the party at these things, but was not feeling well at all.
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