A Whirlwind Weekend!

Well this weekend all of hubby's side got together to celebrate his father's retirement from Verizon after 30+ years. It was very nice to have the whole immediate family together. Middle Brother and Sister in law from Houston and their two little ones came in as well as the Older brother and Sister in law from Austin and their daughter. We had a full house at hubby's parents! Brother and sister in law from Houston came in Friday night and we were lucky enough to have Mom and Dad babysit the two little ones while hubby and I took the brother and sister in law to see Star Trek. Since our nephew is almost 3 and our niece is only 5 months, they don't get out much so we were happy to share this time with them. I think they loved it, just as much as we did the second time! But we definitely realized we don't stay up as late as we used...we saw the 9:55 showing of Star Trek so we didn't get home and in bed until 1:15 am. LATE bedtime for us!

Then we were up around 6:30 am-7 am Saturday morning to clean our house since we were sure to have some of the family staying at our house that evening. We finished up around lunchtime and then drove over to have lunch with Mom, Dad, Brother and Sister in law from Houston and their two kids. The other brother, sister in law and their daughter from Austin arrived around 3-4 pm. After everyone had arrived, we all went out to a little local Mexican place for Dad's retirement dinner - it was very good! Needless to say we all loved it, even the kiddos. After dinner, we retreated back to Mom and Dad's where we had cake....OH MY GOSH! Our lovely sister in law in Houston made the retirement cake, from scratch, with fondant and gum paste and it looked SO professional!! She did an AMAZING, JAW DROPPING job. It looked so real. She made it into a baseball cap and along the side she wrote all the names of the companies Verizon had started out as in the beginning and Dad had stayed with them all. Here are the cake pictures of her masterpiece.....


Front View


Side View

And it was SO YUMMY too!! Inside it was chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache. Don't you think she outdid herself?? I am totally jealous of her abilities! Oh, and if that isn't enough, she and brother in law gave us their extra laptop to use! We had been having computer problems at home and they gave us an EXTREMELY nice, fast, state of the art laptop that brother in law had got through his work. Hubby and I are still flabbergasted that they would bless us like that, but B and L we really, sincerely appreciate it! Thank you again!! Everyone started their drives back home this morning and hubby and I went back to finish our cleaning on the house. He cleaned cars and cleaned out the pantry while I cleaned up the office. After that, we drove over to Plano to have hamburgers on the grill with my parents for dinner and watched New in Town with Harry Connick Jr and Renee Zellweger. So I am still in awe that it is already 9 pm! But like I said, we had a whirlwind weekend! Guess it is time to go back to work to relax!