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first was my family party, at my parents' house in the country, where my dad barbequed tons of food (and veggie bratwursts for elisabeth and me) and so many people came and hugged me and my family sat in circles in the sun and all the babies ran and played and we ate pink sparkly cake and listened to abigail play the clarinet. and everything was just lovely.
then was my party at larry's, where the boys cleaned and decorated everything so perfectly that when i walked in, i had to stop myself from crying. larry and jess grilled hot and not-dogs, we ate an untold number of cupcakes and fresh berries, mary brought her own bottle of wine, nate jones broke it down so harshly on the dance floor that the rest of us gave up, carl licked darrin's and kelly's eyeballs, uncle kerry showed up and we nearly collapsed the bay window by dancing on top of it, and we all ended up running through the backyard with sparklers at 2am. the next day i just walked around in a haze, feeling so blessed.
the whole mess of pictures can be viewed here!