Happy Mother's Day!

This Mother's Day was super special because I got to celebrate with my mom AND my mother-in-law!! Double the mom love! It's fun to combine families. We got together at Mer's house to celebrate the special day. I made (three!) pitchers of mojitos. It truly has become our traditional cocktail! Cheers!



Kayla made this super fresh, delicious salsa. Doesn't it look like a rainbow in a bowl?



Mer made fish tacos with avocado mango salsa and lime crema. Plus black beans with a pickled onion topping!



Mer and I were taking a bunch of pictures of the food. Then I took a picture of Mer taking pictures of the food.



Then Moss took a picture of me taking a picture of Mer taking a picture of the food! Moss's picture:



Then Mom took a picture of me taking a picture of the food!



Mom's picture:



So many picture takers! Mmm, fish taco assembly line. Fish hot off the grill!



YUM!



Three generations of Erlewine ladies.



I made the Triple Berry Summer Buttermilk Bundt Cake from Smitten Kitchen.



It turned out SO GOOD!!! Bursting with berry goodness!






Usually whenever Moss and Kate get together they both turn into blurs.



CHASING!






Cracking up.



Dad, Moss and Kate played Pet Shop. This involved Dad and Moss talking through Kate's tap dancing shoes (telephones, obviously) as Dad tried to order a new puppy. Kate was Moss's assistant and made sure that the sale went smoothly.



The happy customer with his new puppy!



Family!



Tickle fight!






Happy Mother's Day, Mer!



Right before it was time to leave, we managed to fit in a quick Harlem Shake.

Kayla's Birthday Dinner at Casa

Today is Kayla's birthday! We had a big dinner at Casa to celebrate. I should have taken more pictures! After dinner we went back to Kayla's house, where we had cake. Jon made one of the biggest chocolate cakes I've ever seen and it was DELICIOUS!

Happy Graduation, Moss!

Today we celebrated Moss's graduation from Hocking College! Yang and Vana are both in town, so the whole family gathered at Cheryl's house for a cookout. I brought a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE salad.



Corn!



Grilling!



Meaty meaty meat!





Moss creeping on Derrick.



Busted!



Happy plate.

Billie & Ricks's Housewarming/Graduation/Engagement Party

Billie and Rick recently had a big party at their house! They have a lot to celebrate. Billie just got her Master's degree, and Billie and Rick have gotten engaged and bought a house in the past year! SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE! Of course unicorn pegasuses were in order. Rick's sister Kaylee was first.



Then TJ and Billie, both repeat customers!





Group photo! This picture totally reminds me of a cast poster for the series premiere of an all-new 90210-like hour-long teen drama series.

New Roof!

We got a new roof! Our old roof was in pretty bad shape and it was leaking in certain spots. Here is the roof before. Notice the junky old satellite dish!





And here is the new roof! We went with a red metal roof. I love it so much! It's so cheerful! I feel like it looks like it was totally meant to go on our house, like it BELONGS there. So much better!

Cookout at Kayla's featuring the Harlem Shake!

Tonight Kayla and Derrick had us over for a cookout! I didn't take very many pictures, but everything was delicious!!! Cheeseburger.



Kayla invented this banana cream pie creation that had melted chocolate on a graham cracker crust underneath the banana deliciousness. It was amazing!



The evening ended with a Harlem Shake!

Grilled Pizza with Cheryl

Cheryl came over to give Ben a haircut tonight. He shaved his head! I'm going to learn how to do it so that I can do it in the future! We made grilled pizzas. Mmmm.