Lucinda Hope's Big Party

Two days after Millie and Annika got home, we had almost 100 friends and family here for Lucinda's thirteenth birthday party. We didn't start preparations until the day before, I stayed up almost all night, and I still don't really know how it all came together. I think the guests deserve praise for covering the tables with good food to supplement what we had here. If they hadn't brought what they did, we would have all had to survive on hot dogs, pasta salad, and cupcakes. (And water, if not for Evan's gigantic cooler of fancy drinks in glass bottles!)

I took these pictures at the tail end of the party, so the daisies are worse for the wear, but her simple desires for decorations (daisies and yellow) came just in time for us to scrounge the very last few handfuls of roadside daisies.

We nearly always have a guest whose actual birthday is close to these fake summer birthdays, and this year Hannah had her turn. Happy birthday to these girls who still could pass for sisters!

 

As has become tradition, Grandma Owen bought a birthday piñata for the birthday girl. As I hope will NOT become tradition, Ransom had an inexplicable meltdown when people began lining up to hit it.

Rebecca graciously organized all the piñata- bashers because I just didn't have the gumption. She lined Luci up after all the younger set had gone through.

BOOM. That's all it took, and candy showered down, because in addition to being smart, kind, and lovely, Lucinda is also strong.  Happy birthday to our lovely Light, Lucinda Hope. You are a gift to us, Luci, and we love you so much!