Swendsen September Birthdays

Last I counted, there are 31 people in Damien's immediate family.  That's a lot of people to celebrate!  Throw in everyone's busy schedules and you can see that getting everyone together for each and every person's birthday is next to impossible!  That's why we decided to have a September birthday party at our house!  Today we were going to celebrate Haripal, Seamus and Claire!

We loosely incorporated a Western theme to spice up the party a bit!  We had a picture of an outhouse on the front door (yes, we are that classy), Lani made awesome themed cakes, kids were wearing bandannas, Marlene and Mark made an awesome 'WANTED' poster of the birthday trio, the food was straight from a country cookbook and miraculously- we were all in attendance! 

It was fun to have all the aunts and uncles, all the cousins, E and Papa, and everyone else together that makes up Damien's BIG family!  We laughed over good food, watched as each birthday person opened their gifts, and enjoyed the time spent together as a family.

Claire was in heaven with all of her awesome gifts!  She really wanted the Hunger Games DVD and loved that E and Papa gave her 50- $1 dollar bills!  Claire had so much fun today and felt the birthday love, for sure.

Seamus cracks me up.  I have always loved him for his sense of humor and sense of style.  He is at that age where cash makes the perfect gift!  Most everyone gave him just that but we had to get him something funny on the side.  He is really into socks these days so we got him a mustard colored pair of mid-calf socks with mustaches all over them.  He absolutely loved them!

Haripal loved the cowboy boot cake the Lani made him!  He grubbed on all the food, smiled sweetly as he always does, and enjoyed seeing all the awesome gifts people got him!  We went in with Mark and Jocelyn and got him a new bean bag to sit in!  We know it will be comfy for him and he will enjoy the option to sit somewhere else! 

All in all, the party was awesome.  It is great when everyone can come together to celebrate!  Happy birthday to the wild western birthday cowboys and cowgirl.  Haripal, Seamus, and Claire- we love you!