Life in the Middle Age Lane

My wonderful neighbor Amythyst through together a birthday dinner for me at Brio's in the Woodlands on Sunday.  As everyone knows December is the most hectic, surreal, stressful month of the year.  And aside from all that and health issues of her sweet husband she still managed to do this great evening for me. Words cannot express how endeared I felt and how much it meant to me to have such amazing friends and neighbors. Thank you again everyone for a fun night full of laughs, gifts, and friendship!! On Tuesday: My friend Paige's husband could not attend since he was having to work at the hospital, so in the true spirit of our neighborhood, we naturally had to do another dinner.  Makes perfect sense?  So Sam, Melissa, John and I joined Paige and Jimmy at America's in the Woodlands.  Before you feel all jealous of the multi-celebrations you should also know that aside from the lovely Birthday gifts I also received at least 5 pounds of body...

Every year (okay we did take a break when we moved ) we host our annual crawfish boil.  We treat our friends to shrimp, crawfish, beer, gumbo and entertainment.  When the kids were little Emilio would perform celtic irish music at the party. Our kids had a great time helping throw this huge party.  We would have about 50 to 75 people attend and enjoyed seeing all our friends together.  This is Shelby with her friend Hayley shucking corn. You can see how excited they were.  Pictures from last year's crawfish boil.  I made the mistake of telling everyone to bring dessert and we had so many desserts left that I made sure I didn't do that this year! This year's crawfish boil consisted of more neighbors who have become wonderful friends the past 4 years.  We also had a few old neighbor join us and it was a treat to see them again.  It's amazing to look around and see people from so many stages in your life.  From Middle school ...