My mom’s 90th birthday party was awesome. Because Jessica was in charge. And that girl knows how to rock a party. Remind me to put a link to her party and wedding planning website later. It is full of fashion and style and beauty.
I wont bore you with pictures of the family… too much… but I do have some good pictures of the decorations. Jessica spent months dying coffee filters and cutting out paper flowers, on top of arranging the catering and organizing the festivities and sending out invitations.
And as I mentioned, I helped where I could. Because we both showed up early, she put my mad arts and crafts skills to work…
My sister-in-law took this picture of me doing using a hot glue gun to attach flowers to twine. It was taken through a window. I don’t usually look that… wavy… and is my head really that big???
But man, Jessica knows what she is doing.
There are some of our flower vines hanging from the front deck.
You can see more of them inside the window to the right. Jessica is the master of the small, classy touches…
She hung the small glass bottles and we filled them with flowers.
It is the small details that make a party work.
Like the signs she put up so people would know which lemonade had the vodka in it.
I caught her boyfriend in the act of taking some pictures. Man… his lens is a lot bigger than mine…
Everything just looked so nice.
Even the garden was in full bloom.
You wouldn’t think that white paper flowers glued to rough twine would look so classy, but it did. And they twirled in the breeze, which looked cool.
The food she picked was awesome. And those flowers on the table were made from those dyed coffee filters I was telling you about. We had the nieces and nephews helping us fold them into the flower shapes.
The Bay Area is a hotspot for small family farms that make custom cheeses, and Jessica ordered a very nice assortment. Mmmmmm… I love the stinky cheese…
Before Jessica arrived I was tasked with finding the perfect sticks to make a small tree. At the party, people wrote birthday wishes on little cards and hung them from the branches. Is that a sweet idea or what? Jessica made the little flowers by hand, but I got to glue them on.
Jessica also put us to work folding all those hundreds of dyed coffee filters and stapling them to twine. My brother Sid and I then stapled the vines to the ceiling. Here is Jessica showing how excited she is about the end result. She jumped right into my photo.
We had a few vines left over, so I hung them in the hallway. Okay, that’s it for now. But we aren’t done with this… oh no… not by any means.
Pouring My Art Out 
wow…just wow….perfect
It was pretty awesome. Jessica rocked it.
So we charter a 747 with the lounge upstairs and start the party early. We can flip some of the seatbacks forward to the flat position and erect a dance floor and bandstand on them. All the stewardesses wear peasant skirts, scoop neck blouses and flowers in their hair and go barefoot. We do a grape vine motif by gluing leaves on the oxygen mask tubing and put wine racks in the overhead bins. And we ride Vespas up and down the aisles. How’s it sounding so far?
It works for me.
I just knew you’d like it. Now let’s get to work on a big list of invitees. It will keep the per capita contribution down and assure a few hundred gifts for your mom. We’ll let your side handle the in flight catering menu choices. They obviously do it very well.
We might need a cruise ship…
Soooooo much work for sooooo many people in soooooo many areas. All of you really love her a lot. She must be a very special person to have so much devotion from all of you.
Well, that is sort of what a family should be like… not that we always are…
For two or three days I was not able to comment in comment boxes at select sites, this among them. I just now was saw this post. There’s a family that knows how to party. We ALL want to be invited to #100. Don’t forget us next time party hog.
We had lots of people who should have been invited and wouldn’t fit in the house.
We’ll all chip in and rent a wine country villa venue for an extended weekend.
We do stuff like that too. We are thinking of doing it in Italy next time.
Wholly cow is she ever talented! It’s beautiful! I love all of it but the hanging vases so cool! How did you do all that work being 90 and all?
Oh get over it.
All I can say is just wow you’ve out did yourself no way you can better this post….
Well I will still try to.
Here we see some deceptively nice and more-useful-than-just-for-harmful-fun side to LMAO.
I have at least two sides…
Somehow you appear better in 3D than 2D.
And, P.S., you looked unusually regular in the pix. Who could have guessed the Unidentified Regular Object was capable of much greatness. (And this calls for a redefinition of the word.)
Well, I haven’t always been regular…
Then the pix did not capture your appearance well…
Mere photography cannot capture the splendor that is me!
I see. If you insist.
Oh, I do.
How wonderful! Happy birthday to your dear mother. It is heartwarming to see a family celebrate their matriarch with such love and enthusiasm! Love the decorations — Jessica is quite talented and imaginative! And you, sir, obviously know your way around a coffee filter. Good job!
Thanks.
WOW WOW WOW! Spectacular. I never thought of dyeing coffee filters — such a clever idea.
She is a genius.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Pouring!
Ha.
ahaha Mrs. Pouring!
We just call her Mama Out!
lol
Who loves her grandmother- JESSICA LOVES HER GRANDMOTHER! Yay, beyoooooteeful!!!
It was so awesome!!!