Birthday celebration

To celebrate our August birthday folks -- Pete and Rayna -- we had the local Wray clan over for dinner on Saturday night. It sounded like a nice simple idea, and since this year was an "off" year for Rayna's birthday (no party with friends this year in our every-other-year rotation), we figured this would be a good alternative. But by the end of the night it sure felt like we had had a big party!

As I was preparing food and table places for everyone, I counted how many people we were expecting and realized we would be having 19 people in the house for dinner. Two of these are babies that don't eat at the table yet, but still! We didn't even have enough chairs for everyone (something I should have realized beforehand!), so we had to eat in different locations and shifts. And I probably should also have considered the size of our rather smallish living room when I planned this.... Oh, well. We all had fun anyway! (And if someone didn't, they're nicely keeping quiet about it. : )

Here's the gang (minus Mom who was taking the pic, Dad who didn't want to be in it, and Titus who was hiding behind Karin):

There was always a lot going on!

I thought it was funny that we all wore similar shirts!
Here's video of Rayna blowing out the candles on her cake:

(Mor-Mor, we used the tablecloth you made -- see it?)

After dinner and cake, the kids all found entertainment...

.... And Mom and Dad sure know how to enliven a crowd!