Decades Party

Well, we survived the weekend. It was just as crazy-busy as I was expecting it to be, but it was quite a bit of fun along the way. Saturday and Sunday were busy with "boring" things; they inducted a new class of Shriners (which is a full-day ordeal), Bama lost to LSU, and we had a turkey dinner at my grandpa's church on Sunday. But Friday night--well, that was really the highlight of the weekend, and the only thing that is worthy of a full post.

My dad turns 60 next month, and it just happened to turn out that in his vast network of friends and business associates, he knew people who were celebrating 30th, 40th, 50th, and 70th birthdays right around the same time frame. So, the group of them decided to get together and have a joint party--a Party for the Decades, if you will. It was a hoot.

The birthday crew. And yes, feel free to make fun of my dad's leisure suit

Guests were invited to dress in their favorite decade, and there were some great looking outfits.

How cute are these guys? He'll be turning 88 in two weeks, and they were up dancing with the best of them in their (probably authentic) 1920s garb

My brother and his girlfriend Macy supporting the 80s

Darrell and I decided to be a little out of the box, and instead of dressing in our favorite decade, we took the theme a little loosely and dressed in our "favorite" era.

Robin Hood and Maid Marian anyone?

They also had a really fun DJ who did a few "competitions" to get the crowd into things, which was especially great since with 5 different "Guests of Honor", people only knew a handful of the other guests.

A "Charleston" competition. If I look totally clueless it's because I am. That's my sister in the blue dress by the way--she was sporting a blond wig for the night which was hard to get used to

A modified version of musical chairs. Instead of sitting down with the music stopped, the DJ gave the participants an item to retrieve from the audience (such as a cell phone or belt), and the last person back was out

There were even a few guest appearances.

The Lennon Sisters. Don't worry if you don't know who they are; I was totally clueless too. Which made lip-syncing their song a little difficult. From left to right it's me, my mom, my sister, and Macy.

The Village People. Enough said. My brother is the Indian Chief, Darrell is the Military guy, and my sister's boyfriend Nick is the motorcycle cop

Don't worry, Darrell is super glad he married into my family :)

And of course, there was plenty of dancing to be had (mostly just by me, my sister, and Macy).

I'm not entirely sure why, but I love this pic. I'm pretty sure we're jammin' to Usher at this point

It was a great--albeit long--night, and we were very grateful that my dad had bought us all rooms at the hotel where the party was held. We were not so grateful that the Shrine Ceremonial the next day required us to be up by 8:30, but we managed.

Parting shot of the whole crew. I think this picture has Christmas card written all over it :)