lightning strikes: joey's many bday celebrations

so it started out on saturday when joey's parents wanted to throw him a poker party birthday. they set up the back room as the little casino with 3 tables and then we waited for the peeps to arrive.

part of joey's present from his parents was this bottle of patron - yum!

and so the lopez familia took a family shot

and then the lopez siblings - michelle, joey and cassie

this is the double brownie concoctions that joey asked me to make. it's double ghiradelli brownies with chocolate frosting in the middle and around - basically a huge-antic brownie cake

this is michelle and grandma spot - she had about 3 martinis at this point - nice and toasty!

here's the diamond table

and the heart table

continued

here's grish and his love for joey

here's what's left of the spade table - this one took the longest time to determine the top nine. but i took both joey's dad and cousin out to make the final table a table of eight

here's joey and uncle ben - this is what joey's going to look like in 20 years.

blowing out the birthday cake

last call before midnight with auntie pam and johnny

guess who took first and second?

and the party continues - daniel, vince, amin and joey

day 2 of celebrations - dinner at north woods in la mirada - yummy steak and crab legs, cabbage salad, and yummy cheese bread

here's all of us who went

and day 3 - joey's real birthday - i went to visit him at work and brought him lunch along with a $5.99 chocolate by courtesy of marie callendars (good through the whole month of october). his best friend at work (lorena, the one behind him) was working so i asked if we could get the birthday song. i think they forgot most of the words but the point got across.