Sleepover at Billie's

Billie hosted Megan, Cheryl and me for a sleepover this weekend! On Friday night, we went for dinner at Jasmine's Thai and Sushi restaurant. It was delicious!! After dinner we headed to Finnegan's Wake for live music. We stopped by Drug Mart on the way there, and they had these amazing sparkly face stickers! Obviously we bought them!

Matching sparkle stickers and jazz hands!

The bar was having a Mardi Gras party, so we were glad that we had randomly grabbed the sparkly face stickers. We met this couple, who was decked out head to toe!

It was a Unicorn Pegasus kinda night.

 
 
 

Some of the partygoers were kind enough to share their accessories with us!

So many laughs, all night long. I love these gals!!

On Saturday morning, we went to Cherry Street Pub in Lancaster. While we were waiting to be seated, Billie told me that there was this one special booth that reminded her of "if Kate was a booth." I've never imagined what I would be like as a booth before! She asked the hostess if we could have the special booth and she said YES! It was so exciting! Look at how amazing this booth is!!!

The food was delicious too! I had a fried chicken sandwich.

After brunch, we went to Mud Gallery Ceramics & Fine Art Decor Gifts for tarot readings! That was a fun experience.

Spending time with these women always fills my heart up to the brim. 

XOXO!

Feast of the Seven Fishes Potluck Festa

Dawna and Lou hosted a Feast of the Seven Fishes Potluck Festa this evening! Everyone brought some type of fish or seafood dish. Their friend made this Prawna head out of shrimp!

Dawna kissing Prawna.

Eeek!

I made crabcakes. Yumi made paella.

There was soooooo much seafood!

Seafood as far as the eye can see!

Crab rangoon!

Salmon!

Shrimp po'boy!

My plate. Cheers to seafood!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

It's Mom's birthday! We gathered at mom and dad's for a birthday party.

Our family has been obsessed with the card game Golf, so we got mom an automatic card shuffler and some new playing cards.

The shuffler was really fun to use!

Golfing!

For dinner, Mer made turkey pot pies with dill crust. YUM!!!!

Mmm, I got to eat one of the "m"s. Green beans on the side!

I made coconut layer cake.

 

Make a wish!

Happy birthday, Mom!

Good Luck Pork

Mom made her famous Good Luck Pork for dinner tonight! Mmm, it's always so delicious every year. Happy New Year to all, and I hope everyone has a fortunate and wonderful 2026.

NYE

I had people over tonight to celebrate New Year's Eve! I made the feta pesto sundried tomato dome. A holiday favorite!

I also made loaded tater tots.

And then I promptly forgot to take any more pictures! Luckily, Jodie got one snap of the party. Cheers! Happy New Year's Eve!

Merry Xmas

Merry Christmas, y'all! Tonight we got together at mom and dad's, and Uncle Tom, Aunt Sue, and Aunt Jill joined us! Mom made clam chowder and a veggie tray. I brought broccoli cheddar soup. Mer brought cheese and crackers and cookies! Everything was delicious! This is the only food picture I took.

After dinner, we played a rousing game of Bowl of Nouns. It was a tight game, but the team with both Kates on it was the winner.

On Christmas morning, we reconvened at Mom and Dad's for breakfast and presents!

Mom made spinach and gruyere strata. 

Little Kate made cinnamon rolls, and Mer prepared fruit! It was an 11/10 breakfast, yum!

We got some matching pajama pants during our annual Xmas shopping trip, and I begged encouraged everyone to wear them on Christmas morning. Yay, matching!!

We had dinner over at Mer and Pete and Kate's. Mer made spaghetti and meatballs, and I made the Ann Moneypenny salad with oranges and candied pecans.

Look at that glorious pile of meatballs!!! Meatball mountain! 

Another 11/10 meal. Yum!!

Uncle Mark sent us all some bison and bear hats from Montana for Christmas, so we did a group photo with those. We missed having him visit this year! Merry Christmas, y'all!