Life on Ridgeview: Weekend Wrap Up: Birthday Extravaganza!

This weekend was the weekend of birthday's. Teddy and I both took Friday off work (Whoo Hoo!) to head down to Flora and celebrate Aunt Penny's birthday with her. We hadn't seen Penny since the wedding and were excited to catch up with her and hang out around town. So, we caravaned down with Teddy's mom and Jennifer. When we got there it was around lunch time and after Penny's doctor appointment we headed out to get some grub!

As you can see, Penny was pretty excited to be heading out to lunch with us all. We headed to La Fuente, a Mexican restaurant in town. The food was good, but Penny wouldn't let them slap a sombrero on her to sing happy birthday. Birthday songs would have to wait.

On our way back from lunch Penny had to stop by work to do a few things and pick up her computer. So we got to check out her newspaper, The Hometown Journal.

Teddy in front of the paper's offices

Penny working away

This is us "patiently" waiting for Penny to finish working

After Penny finished working, we went back to the house to hang out and talk for a while. I think there may have even been a few naps in there. Teddy's mom then started dinner, and we had a great meal of pork roast, potatoes and asparagus. Yum!

Here we all are ready to enjoy some yummy dinner!

All afternoon the house smelled of something chocolately and delicious, and we discovered that Mom had made a birthday cake for Penny.

Here Penny blows out her pretend candles - we weren't overly prepared...

We had a great time enjoying cake, but mostly we enjoyed the company. The next day Teddy and I brought over the fixings for breakfast and made some omelets, hash browns and bacon. We then played a new game that Jennifer had brought with her, none other than a Lego game. (what else!) Then Penny had to go to her appointment and we caught up with her there for a little while to get in maximum visiting time since we had to leave later that day. After working around the house a little bit, Teddy, Jennifer and I packed up to head home on Saturday.

On our way home we stopped by and picked up Fozzie from mom and dad's. He was pretty excited to see us. And we got to check out their new car! Very cool.

On Sunday, the Lach clan was getting together to celebrate Teddy's dad's birthday. We started out with Jennifer, Teddy and I taking him to breakfast. Then we all headed out to run some errands before Erica and Kris came down with the kiddos. Around lunch time we met Kris, Erica and the kids over at Grandma's house for a visit before we all went to lunch. Dad decided he wanted Portillo's for lunch, so we said goodbye to Grandma, and headed over to Portillo's for some beef sandwiches, and more importantly, picked up a chocolate cake there to sing happy birthday to him later.

We headed back to his house after that and hung out watching some movies and playing with Emily and Carson for a while before we all decided we just really wanted some chocolate cake for dinner. So we all gathered in the kitchen to sing happy birthday to Dad.