A week before her 85th birthday, we gathered 40+ people in my grandma Betty's living room for a surprise party. My mom ordered 50 invitations to the party and ran out - a testament to the wonderful-ness of my grandma (known by Collin as "B") in that she has so many people that love her enough to drive across Houston during the Christmas season to celebrate her bithday!
The birthday girl -
The surprise party planners - my Uncle Dick and my mom -
Collin was briefly introduced to all of my grandmother's friends and then quickly herded outside to burn some energy in our mid-December fall. He was entertained by family and a pile of leaves for over an hour. Uncle Bob and Aunt Carla, Stella and Leo raked up the pile of leaves countless times -
Anticipation before the jump -
Then the cousins buried one another - Stella buried with Leo posing like a typical younger brother and Stella and Annie posing by buried Leo -
Collin claimed a nook in the tree as his supervisory position while the family re-raked the leaf pile. He is such a spoiled little guy by our loving family, as whenever he had thoroughly destroyed the pile of leaves, he just headed to his tree spot and quickly, wordlessly, everyone knew it was time to rebuild for Collin!
Collin had a great day playing in the leaves with family and celebrating B's birthday.
We are SO grateful that Collin has three great grandmas in the latter half of their 8th decade and he is crazy about all of them!
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