A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

For Mother's Day this year, Aunt Katherine organized a "paint and sip" party where the whole Fawcett-Feige-Suggs-Zimmerman family embraced their artistic sides (to varying degrees of successfulness). Nora, in particular, loved the experience and asked if we could recreate it with her friends for her birthday. So after a lot of planning, some borrowing of tables and chairs (thanks Katherine and Mom Mom) and prayers to the weather gods (which mostly worked -- it was clear but a little on the warm side...) Ms. Brandi returned to give a painting lesson to twelve young ladies while they sipped sparkling (non-alcoholic) rosé and pear cider.

At our previous sip-n-paint party, things may have gotten a little competitive with some of us not feeling so great about our trees or root systems and secretly wondering what was so great about Allen's leaves. The girls, however, were extremely supportive of each other and genuinely admired each other's work while still maintaining their own viewpoint (and they all have really strong views). The result was a veritable bouquet of perspectives and a bunch of really happy budding artists who couldn't wait to show off their masterpieces (once they cooled off inside, and had pizza and cupcakes).

It was great party and a wonderful, albeit exhausting, day. Which culminated in Allen and I enjoying our own sips later that evening... absent any paint.

(To see all the party pictures, click here.)