Table for Eight

Our car. Poor Bam! Yesterday she took her younger sisters shopping and decided to get a Subway sandwich on the way home.  Only, the parking space was a little too tight for our car (translation -- Bam now knows the turning radius of our Honda Pilot).  Thankfully, no one was hurt. AND the person who owned the car she hit (parked car) was SO kind when she learned about the fender bender. SO kind.  She told Bam not to worry and "that this is probably the first of many." I don't remember being that understanding when I've been involved in an accident.  We all learned a lot yesterday.  The other car.

Walk down memory lane: Dinner at Outback (thanks to Melissa for the giftcard). I don't think we had been here in 10 years! Thanks, Melissa! I feel like I finally understand what the phrase "Time Flies" really means--because I feel like Dave and I got married, we blinked, and six kids later, here we are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. That is just wild! And given that we have now been married 25 years, it only follows that I am now 46 years old!  Holy guacamole. Papaya made my 46th bday cake. (Ocean theme for Shark Week). A sweet friend brought me flowers for my bday. Zu and Lu made snow-cones for my bday dessert. So cool. Harriet and Zu on our way to buy the special snow-cone ice. Janae, my BFF, had a lemonade stand at her house and had this CRAZY-BIG cotton candy made for me (pina colada). This is a family inside joke: Bam got this balloon a month ago. We named it Smiley. We loved it--for a day