Monday, October 20, 2008

A Farewell/Birthday Celebration

The Sunday before David left our family got together to celebrate with of course, great food. We were also celebrating all of the birthdays within our families (the ones geographically close: Mata, Hayes, Yount, and Hanselmann Families). Britt made an army cake at the request of the Hayes boys and it was appropriate for David's upcoming departure as well. We had a good time and it will be great to get together with all of the family at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The fun Army Cake (checkerboard inside):



Here are some of those celebrating birthdays recently (July, August, September): Row 1- Johnathan Hayes, Andrew Hayes, Row 2- Alex Hayes, Adam Hayes, David Mata, Row 3- Marianne Yount (my mom), Deanne Hayes (my aunt) holding Nora Hanselmann, Row 4- Eric Hayes (Deanne's husband- they are the parents of all those Hayes kids!)



We realized afterward that Malia, Nathan, and Chris were also August birthdays. Oops! In addition, David and Adam have February birthdays! We should have just taken a picture of everyone just to be sure. Oh, well. Happy belated birthday to all!

4 comments:

Day Family Blog said...

How do you make it checkerboard inside, sounds cool.

Dianne said...

Happy Birthday EVERYONE! Heavens knows I can't keep them all straight anymore.

I'm impressed with the checkerboard cake. I haven't tried that yet.

Frisbies Forever said...

It's really fun. We did a red, white and blue one. I have never seen an army one like that! So cool. Happy Birthday to Everyone from Us too. Too many to keep things sent out. I usually remember about the right time, acknowledging to the person maybe something totally different. I try, I fail. I can't wait for Thanksgiving either. I just hope I have more of our house done by then so it looks different to you all, but I think it should. I am really excited. It seems like FOREVER since we have seen everyone.

Elise said...

Cool cake!