We've had a busy week/weekend! Ava's big 1st birthday party was Saturday -- Annie had a blast playing with cousins and slopping around in sand, water, cupcakes and the like. Nothing more fun than a hot summer day getting messy and being a kid....Annie certainly did all of it! I would have made Great Grandma Fitz proud with my calm demeanor as Annie covered herself in water and sand, and then proceeded to eat cupcakes and rice krispies wither her sweaty sandy hands...and, Gram, you were right, she loved it, and she lived -- what a great day.
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| Kelly, Ava & Maddy |
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| Kelly & Ava |
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| Annie & a Happy Cupcake face! |
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| A & A sharing cake |
This weekend we also attended the estate sale that was used to auction off all of Annie's Great Grandma's things since her passing this winter. I was not prepared for how difficult that would be. Seeing the things that were familiar to us in her home, the games we played, the pots I remembered her making spaghetti in, the cookie pans used for her delicious chocolate chip cookies (squares are the best!), boxes of cards - with slips of score cards still with her handwriting, the aggravation game that I had written my name on, her sewing table, chair and box, the one she used to make me pajamas, halloween costumes, doll clothes and perfect care bears...all of which were held in the air - and then most of which was hauled off by strangers for a dollar here and there. Luckily we managed to come away with her piano, I'm anxious to get the last picture of Great Grandma and Annie sitting at that piano into a frame, and on top of Grandma's piano, in it's new home. I love knowing that Annie will see that picture, and sit at that piano...and know, that at one time, she and her Great Grandmother were together on that very same piano bench. I learned a few things with this experience, one, we need to attend more auctions, what a great way to get fabulous things for next to nothing and two, no more family auctions for me. Aside from being able to come away with some of Grandma's things - it'll be awhile before I can shake the sound of the auctioneers voice, the sight of all of her things up for grabs, and the empty house and yard when it was all said and done. A life time of belongings and memories gone in one summer afternoon -- to whomever outbid me on the aggravation game with my name on it...I hope you love it as much as I did! (Same goes to whomever outbid me on the cookie sheets, croquet set, and monopoly game - boo!)
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