Celebration! 🎆🎊🎶🎉🎈

Yesterday, the whole family went out to one of our favorite local restaurants, Bella Panini, for a family meal to celebrate all the amazing things our children are doing (yes, I am very proud of them!). All four of them have worked incredibly hard and have excelled in so many ways, from volunteering to activism to holding down challenging jobs to major achievements academically, athletically, and artistically to just being all-around great human beings.

After a wonderful meal, we came home for chocolate cake. 

"Dem Gaydos Kids da Bomb Diggity"

And, yes, I have learned a new expression😉

As usual, the cats figured out we were celebrating something and stopped by to demand their standard "special treat" (tinned food, as opposed to their usual boring old kibble). Then the dogs felt left out, so they had to have treats too.

We concluded the evening with an old Columbo episode. 'Still love Colombo.