Laura Vegas

today we threw my parents a 40th anniversary party. by "we" i mean my brother, my sister-in-law, my sister, and me and joe. i give most of the credit to my brother and his wife … because they really did all the work. i failed miserably on pictures … but i did get these few.

check out this cake! the detail was amazing … i hated to even cut into it. i friend of my brother has her own business creating these masterpieces … and how cute a name is babycakes for a business.

these little pastries were so cute. i’m not a fruit person … so i didn’t have any … but they looked so yummy. actually … why didn’t i try the chocolate one?!?! lol! may have to track one of those down.

gorgeous flowers! they smelled good too … have one of the green potted ones in my kitchen right now. i’m admittedly not much of a flower person … so joe knows to never buy me flowers. but they do pretty up my kitchen!

that’s pretty much it on my pictures. any picture that had a person in it … didn’t turn out. how sad is that? i think my problem was that i had my 85mm lens on … because i loooooove that lens and it’s my favorite lately. but 85mm gets you pretty close … so i was really having to back up way too much to get anything in the frame. so i switched over to my 28-135mm lens … which i equally love … but isn’t as fast as the other lens. and since i can’t remember the last time i used my external flash … i really didn’t think to put it on. but i should have … i should know better than to take a picture inside with no flash. lol! hopefully my sister-in-law got some good shots. i had to laugh because she was using her film camera … who uses film anymore?!?! lol! i shouldn’t say that since i fought the whole "digital" thing for a long time before i gave in.

and this was my photo display i put together. we wanted to display some photos of my parents from way back when … before they got married. my mom had scanned most of her photos onto the computer a while back … even scanned in slides. luckily these printed pretty good. we put this out by the sign-in table along with their wedding album. this is about the only thing i was responsible for … and i waited until friday afternoon to start it. i think i had my brother worried … i kept telling him "i’ll get to it" … and he kept saying "it’s getting really close". lol! i told him i had the design all in my head … and not to worry. well guess what … the design in my head ended up not working out.

but this came together so quickly. these are 16×20 canvases that i had covered with fabric ages ago and never used. i actually have 4 total … and i had them propped up in the playroom after finding them in the closet … figured if i set them out i’d figure something out to do with them. i was sitting there with the kids on friday and i realized they’d be perfect. i covered 8inch chipboard letters with pattern paper and added a few sheets of 12×12 paper and some ribbons/trims. i think it came out great. although i didn’t think to ask if they had a spot to hang it up later.

back to the party. it was the perfect day … perfect weather (considering it rained here a ton yesterday). gorgeous decorations. yummy food. delicious desserts. tons of my parents closest family and friends. i think they had a great time! congratulations to them on 40 wonderful years together!