Christmas Time Part 4: Papa Al's Party

our final christmas post isn't really a christmas post at all, but it happened during our augusta christmas week. it was a celebration of paul's mom's husband, albert, turning 70! it was supposed to a surprise, but apparently 60-70 year old individuals men (mainly fellow attorneys and judges!) couldn't keep the secret (not my observation! just the facts! ;) we didnt even tell addie until the day of to make sure she didn't tell!

surprise or not, it was a fabulous party! papa al was surrounded by family and friends young and old to celebrate his 70 years young!

i'll go ahead and apologize for the over abundance of pictures of dancing little girls! of the 370 pictures i took, i actually edited 145 of them, and i'm pretty sure half of those were of dancing little girls! not to worry, there were many others not posted here!

but onto the party! everyone got there early; and papa al might have been suspicious, but i think he was still pleasantly surprised!

gramma had a special kids table set up with crayons and coloring pages and stickers (oh my!) and cool cups! can we say life saver!?! it also proved to be a fun hiding place for all 4 of our girls!

one of very few pictures i got of baby john the whole week. he is so cute, and his little personality keeps coming out more and more! and anne perry is all about kissing things she loves, and her daddy is absolutely one of those!

the little girls were a bit hesitant of all the music and people, but they did get down a little and dance and play with the big girls (my left arm would disagree but here's the proof!)! and see addie dancing away in the background? that kid loves to dance!

and was there ever dancing!

addie and kira had a blast dancing with others...

...and with each other. and when they weren't dancing, they were crawling around all over the place (!?!) because that's what almost 3 and 4 year olds do!

addie had the most fun jumping...and being a pretend guitar!

if i heard when can we have cake once, i heard it a zillion times! love these two big girls, and they love their cake!

thankfully at some point grandpa saved my left arm (and right hand for that matter!) and audrey kate let him hold her; and after that, she let ms. gail feed her cake!

balloons anyone? :)

thank you for a great celebration and fabulous party gramma, and happy 70th birthday papa al!