Celebrating Papa!

We didn't make a huge deal of Papa's birthday but invited over a few neighbors for food and drinks.  Everybody brought a little something from pasta salad to sangria.  It's amazing how 'a few neighbors' can feel like lots of people when you get kids involved.  The kids tore around inside and out while conversations were had and another year was celebrated.  

It turned out to be a great little, laid-back party...the kind that prompts after-the-fact questions like "how did this underwear end up here?" But, not in that 20-something way more in that underoos kind of way.  Oh yes, times have changed.  Wild party means something different these days.

But, despite the underoos incident it was the kind of neighborly party that makes us reflect on just how lucky we are to quietly celebrate our everyday events in the company of great people in our great town. It's hard to deny that we found a great little pocket of New Jersey to settle into.