A Blast From The Not Too Distant Past

So, for your pleasure, Gaga and Hillary's October visit for my birthday. I knew all along about Gaga coming, but Hillary and Baron surprised me at the last minute. They showed up on my doorstep the morning of the party. I still knew nothing of the party though until it actually happened. I cried when I realized Jackson was really not with Hillary. I thought they were teasing at first and just had him behind a door or something, but he was really not there. I love that little guy. Baron is the sweetest baby ever though, and it was nice to get to spend some more one on one time with him for a change.

As I arrived Lennon started shouting "Everbody's here! Everybody's here!" He was very excited about the party.

Mia apparently took a lot of time getting dressed and choosing just the right dress and earrings for the party. She was precious and made the night.

The other highlight was an awesome video Gaga made for me with some interviews with friends of mine and old pictures from childhood and high school. It was awesome! This is me laughing hysterically at something stupid I did that is being retold on the video. Definitely the best birthday gift other than the surprise of Hillary and Baron.

Goofing around with The Brills as they were leaving. It was such a wild bunch, the whole party was over before 10 o'clock. I guess that's what happens when you get old, your parties end earlier. :)

I love this baby so much!

Not sure what she was going for here, but I think she looks awesome!

The whole weekend, the kids were playing some game which I cannot remember the name of right now, but basically it involved leaning the couch cushion up against the coffee table and jumping down it while being as loud as possible. They thought they were geniuses.

Gaga with Baron.

Mia wants another baby because she thinks they're all like Baron. Oh, how quickly she has forgotten that that is not always the case.

One night during the visit, Mia put on a concert for us. Lennon ran a concession stand and handed out play money to whoever bought concessions. They even had a little play list by the "stage" (coffee table)

Lennon announcing at the end of the show that "this was a pretty cool show. The only part of it that was not cool is that I didn't get to sing."

Luckily, both of Mia's grandmas play piano so whenever they visit we take advantage of their services.

One morning we went out to breakfast at our favorite brunch place in Cambridge, Full Moon Cafe. Afterwards we headed over to a little farm in Concord where they had a haunted hay ride and fresh apple cider. The kids had a blast. Baron napped in the car and I think we rode the hay ride about 4 times.

Lennon found these props in the shop afterwards and ran around pretending to be a flying witch.

It was a great visit and a total surprise that Hill was here and that there was a party. Gaga and Hillary even got to come to my mom's group at the church with me which was super fun for them to meet some of my friends there. It seems like we just moved up here, but all of a sudden Lennon is the age Mia was when we first moved. It seems strange to think of there only being a year and a half left here. We'll be spending way less money of plane tickets when the time finally comes.