Aunt Poos

Hello Blog World! OK, its time for me to catch up on my blogging!! Last Saturday we celebrated my Aunt Poos' birthday. For those of you who don't know my Aunt Poos, you are missing out!! She is beautiful, funny, smart, loving and definately spirit-filled! Her laugh and screams can be heard for miles when she gets worked up! :) And last week was a pretty big birthday for her. (I'm not sure she would want me to say which one it was, but suffice it to say it was a big one! :) So to celebrate, my mom, Poos, Oma, Jamie and I went to "The Chocolate Angel" tea house in Richardson. It is one of our favorite places to meet for a Girl's Lunch. They have delicious salads and sandwiches!

On a side note, I was surprised to see my great friend and neighbor, Susanne at The Chocolate Angel that day!! Who would've thought we would run into each other at such an obscure place!!??? Guess we really do think alike, Sus! :)

So the 5 of us were seated and had our wine glasses filled with my Aunt's favorite Reisling (which was delish by the way!). My Aunt had the special birthday wine glass that we decided should be passed along to each of us when it is our birthday lunch.
We ordered our meals and then Mom broke out the party attire for Poos to wear on her special day. Out of her bag she whisked out a tiara, boa and star sceptor. Poos had no choice but to wear her special birthday accessories. Mom told Poos that whenever she touched someone with her birthday star sceptor that that person had to do whatever Poos asked. I will just say that Poos took advantage of that situation and it led to some great girl talk! :) Here is a picture of the birthday girl in all her glory:

After our delish meal, we went to Jamie's house for cake and gifts. Jamie has a beautiful house in Richardson that I had not visited since they first moved in. We took a quick tour of the house. Jamie has decorated it so nicely and they did a lot of work on it. It is absolutely a beautiful and warm, homey home. I love it! Jamie had put together Poos' favorite cake, Angel Food cake. We had it with strawberries and whip cream, yummy!!

Next, we opened gifts. (Or did we do cake first?? I can' remember the exact sequence! :) Poos got some great gifts and cards. Mom and Oma surprised Poos by giving Poos a gift bag with a set of keys in it. When she opened the gift and found the keys, Mom told her she had to go out to her car and look in her trunk for her gift. So we all went outside and watched as Poos opened the trunk, and found a new 19 inch flat screen TV!!! For those of you who know my Aunt, you can already hear the screams and laughter that came out of her mouth when she found it! :)

It was so funny because on the way to lunch she was just telling us that the only reason she would go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving was if there was a flat screen TV on sale that she could use in her bedroom!! It was so great to see her so surprised and happy about her gifts!

Jamie's husband came home just in time to visit for a little bit and take a picture of all us girls. It was a great day of laughter, wine, food, sharing and love. I love my family!!