Forty.
Wow.
That's a pretty big number.
That's a pretty important milestone birthday.
And so, we did what had to be done.
We had a 4oth birthday bash to celebrate the day, and Joe's life.
My mom did most of the work to make the day successful.
It had to be big. And sophisticated. This is an older man we are talking about here :P.
Soooo . . . we were very mature about the whole thing . . . and dressed like gangsters!!
That's right.
It was a Godfather themed party.
We had good food, great company, cool music, a huge cake (yes, we had 40 lit candles on it!!!) and lots of fun!
It was amazing to hear friends and family (there are those people, again) share their hearts about Joe, the impact he has in their lives and what he means to them.
There were lots of trips down memory lane, lots of new memories made, lots of laughing, and lots of crying, too (good crying, though, and, happily, not too much ugly crying).
I wanted him to have a spectacular day, and later he told me it exceeded his expectations.
That's exactly what I wanted to hear.
I am so happy he had a good time.
When you love someone so much you want to give them the world, the moon, the sun and all the stars thrown in (And I do. Love him that much.), a party hardly seems able express all that enough.
Even if it is a cool party.
And this party was pretty "off the hook" (what does that even mean? I'm getting too old to figure this stuff out).
It is a little weird, I guess, to be getting older. To be hitting numbers that always seemed so far away before.
Time marches on, and we are all in his parade.
He makes us offers we cannot refuse.
Not and survive, anyway.
We get older.
And sometimes, we get better.
And sometimes, we get together with our friends to celebrate our lives. To know we are loved. To be aware that we love being here. Doing this.
We have moments that make all the other moments of our lives come together, make sense.
I think Joe had some of those moments yesterday.
I hope he has many more.
Hey, Joemanuch! I love you! Hope you had an awesome birthday!!
Little man didn't last very long. Sorry to say, he slept through most of Dad's big day!!
Everyone was talking with their hands. Fuggetaboud it!
"Hey, get that camera outta here!"
Gangs of New York
Look at the glow coming off that cake!!
He's so Sinatra!
The Padrone!
2 comments:
It was a great party. Glad I could be a part of the celebration. You both are great people and great friends.
It was an awesome party
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