June 13, 2007

• Today would have been Aundrea's 41st birthday.

  Funny that so simple a sentence can have so many emotions wrapped up in it.

  Yesterday I started scanning in all of the pictures that I have accumulated over the last six years with her and her family - so just be prepared - there are going to be some trips down memory lane coming up here over the next little bit of time.

  I have some FANTASTIC birthday memories with my friend - these pictures are from her birthday in 2003.  That year, I had arranged to have a couple of days off work and had called B and arranged for some of her girls in the area and I to throw a surprise birthday party for her.

  The morning of her birthday I drove to AR and as prearranged, set up at Judy VW's house to do all manner of baking and birthday preparations.  So much fun - I wish that I could remember everything that we made, but the only thing that I remember about the food preparation was that I made a fairly decent replica of this fantastic fresh fruit flower arrangement out of all sorts of melon, kiwi, strawberries and the like.  Super pretty.

  Anyway - I digress.  After all of the preparation was done, at the prearranged time we all showed up at the house with gifts and party in tow.  She was totally surprised [one of the few times that I was actually able to surprise her - I was pretty proud of that ]..we had such a good time.

  Here is the only shot that I got of the table/cake - you can barely see anything except for the sparklers that we used in leiu of candles...[pardon the quality] That would be Aundrea and Reese in the background and the aforementioned fruit flower arrangement in the front left...

  

  After the cake cutting and general birthday festivities, these three yummy girls put on a special birthday show for everyone... [pinch]

  

  At the end of the evening we all gathered for a group shot before everyone left for home - and someone realized that after eating all of the yummy party food, none of us had lipstick on...  Leslie E. solved the problem by whipping out her ever-ready BRIGHT RED lipstick and we all passed the tube around - laughing about the vanity of it all, as well as the fact that we all looked like super BIG dorks wearing the same color...notice though, that no one was bothered enough by the dork factor to abstain from wearing it.

  

  With the family...[and a few extras - I see some Lasse children in there too ]

  

  This was the last one of the evening - we all smooched her and left our lip prints on her face...
  [yeah - mine is the one on the left cheek  ]

  

  How grateful I am for these memories...

  Happy Birthday friend...

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