Every day is...The Best Day of My Life : Happy Birthday Liz

Sisters: DJ, Lanora and Lib getting pedicures before the party

Lanora (sister) and Mike (brother-in-law..DJ's husband) contemplating a PARTY

Hosted by Cathy and Stephen Baker-Chew
with the help of lots of other people.
James and Janyll and Kaylie Birmingham
Jen Birmingham, Jacey Holinsworth
Don, Becky, Abigail Claybrook
Stacey Mansell
Kris, Phil and Autumn Turner
Jay and Christopher Baker and friends
Natalie, Murphy, Chad and friends
Joan, Dennis, Theresa and Henri Mulder
Kathea, Jeannette and Sara Mulder
Jamie and Jamie Baker
Ashley and family
and many more......

Party Site: Baker-Chew home on South River Road, Clarksburg

Get a name badge
"I whistle a happy tune"
Hidden heads of....Dayna and Lorraine, Helen, Stacey
and Mimi

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80+ guests enjoyed games, food, prizes
and good company

The "toilet" was one of several fun carnival games...toss a roll of toilet paper into the hole.

Miss Kaylie
"OOH...that's cold"

Uncle Mike dunking Kaylie

Dunk Tank was the favorite activity on this 95 degree
October Saturday.

Me, at the pee wee's line getting a shot at James

"Get him, Christopher"

Liz and Kris, Richard, Linda and Katie Stevick, Liz and Betty, Murphy and Chad, Cathy and Stephen, Sean, Audrey and Kathy Little | Cookman, April, Matt, Olivia Lewis, Betty Stewart, Bruce and Charlie, Dayna, Lorraine, Brian, Helen, Sara

Jude and Liz
Enjoying dunking Jennifer

Baby grandson James Oliver - Jolly

Fall in Clarksburg

The Lange Family
Joanne and I met during our Sophomore year of high school and have remained good friends, with our children becoming friends and now grandchildren.

Friends and co-workers from League of California Cities
Dayna, Lorraine, Brian, Helen, Sara..not pictured but helping me celebrate were
Perry, Kym and Ashleigh

Murphy had fun

Old friends
Nina and Dave Krebs
Charlie and Bruce
Kris and Phil Turner
Kevin Kelly
Mimi May
Jude Hanson

The country setting was perfect....
pumpkins, gourds and hay bales
galore...
Tables dressed in yellow gingham
with bouquets of wheat in tall mason jars
Set among shell-your-own peanuts......
There was
Popcorn, Peanuts, Cotton Candy,
Apple Hill apples with caramel dipping sauce
Nachos
Corn dogs
salads
watermelon
homemade (lemons from Cathy's tree) regular and raspberry-flavored lemonade served in mason jars
ice cream and juice bars

Photo Props
Jeremy, David, Kaylie
Michael
Liz and Jennifer
David, Jeremy, Janyll
Jacey, Abigail and Kaylie
Sara and Brian
and yet again
David, Jeremy and Janyll

My sisters
DJ Cookman from Los Angeles
Lanora Suggs, Marion, Texas

Jennifer and Jacey, James (Clay) Jolly, Janyll, Charlie and Becky

Carnival games, sack races, hula hoop contests

Family Members
Through my marriage to their Uncle Jim
Me with my niece Cathy and Stephen, fabulous party hosts
Henri Mulder, great nephew. You may have met him directing traffic and parking
Autumn Turner, my great niece and goddaughter.
Autumn helped with carnival games and dressed for a vintage fair.
The mustache is not real!

Lots and lots of hula hoops
Jacey can hula in high heels
Must be her Hawaiian heritage

Resident pets enjoyed the party...slept through the party!

Murphy and Friends took on the task of creating my birthday cake!
When it was finished, Cathy nixed it and substituted our family
favorite...Blackout Cake from Freeport Bakery.