Birthdays, Chili & Photo-friends!

Today was one of those days that you have a million and one different things to do all at once and everything just seems to fall into place in ways you didn't imagine.

For starters Emmie woke up at 6am instead of 8am like she usually does...which was actually a bonus once I got my gears going because we got to put an extra load of laundry in and get a jump start on our busy day. We HAD to go to the grocery store because if we don't have bananas in the house there is a certain someone under three feet tall who gets very emotional...oh, and we needed supplies for chili for the friends we had coming over later in the day. We barely squeezed in the trip to the store and then we were off to the Doubletree in Waltham to have a family brunch for my two uncles who were turning 65 and 60--fun times because I have 6 cousins who are all married with kids so there were 14 rugrats running around and Emmie had a blast even though she only caught 15 minutes of sleep on the car ride over.

We left there around 1pm thinking Emmie would be primed and ready for her nap but apparently the 15 minutes on the car ride over was enough for her and she was tearing around the house while I made some chili...do you go to www.allrecipes.com? If you don't already you should...just stick to the recipes that have a huge number of reviews and still manage to keep their 5 stars and you'll never cook a bad meal...we made Chili by George.

Matt & Paulette were supposed to arrive around 4pm...but we call and find out that they had a last minute shoot and can't make it. Two others canceled yesterday...and we have a HUGE pot of chili and no one to eat it so I call the family down the street who just had a baby two weeks ago and offer some...they already have dinner on the table as it's 4:50pm. Then we remember that Michelle said she was going to come hang out with Matt & Paulette but that she would be late because she was meeting with a bride...Michelle is one of our number one referrals when we are booked for a date so...instead of a meeting with a whole bunch of people we got to meet with Michelle one-on-one and talk weddings! It was fun, laid back, and there was plenty to eat!!