...9.27...Over the Weekend...

...for the second weekend in a row...

...we headed up to the mountains...

...and arrived back to the place we affectioknit-ly call 'home'...

...because work was already well underway on Mom's birthday present...

...and my sweet sissie is doing a great job of documenting everything over at McCraw Sails...so hop over there for all the details...

...the four siblings (and their spouses and children and children-in-laws) are building a covering for Mom's back patio...it'll be an awesome space for her to sit and read...and just enjoy her beautiful property...

...in the afternoon everyone took a break from building to celebrate Mom's birthday together...my sweet SIL did all the planning and orchestrating and other in-laws and grandchildren brought lots of treats...so it was an awesome party!

...my overstuffed plate of vegan food...and I went back and got a plate-ful of fruit too...

...and then it was time to load up the dessert table...with Birthday cake...apple pie...and blackberry cobbler...and huge garbage cookies...

...the pretty birthday cake was one of Mom's favorites...a Lady Baltimore cake...but I only remember her making a couple of times when I was little...

...and here's Mom ready to blow out the candle...as we sing Happy Birthday...

...and then Sunday morning the work continued...sissie is applying some pressure to the soffit from underneath so they can nail it in place...

...and then the first sheathing board gets hefted up...

...and a ladder placed for some rooftop work...

...and my sweet sissie snapped a photo of me working on the roof...don't I look like I'm having a good time...that's 'cause I was...

...we're back home now...and work continues on the back porch...it's always so much fun to get together with my brothers and sister and all the rest of the family...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!