Nine Hens And One Veeeery Precious Rooster!

This past weekend, Bailey, Scoots and I loaded up and headed out for the first of what we hope becomes many hen parties thrown by "Auntie" Neva! Neva turns 48 tomorrow, and we went to her parent's cabin in Fredericksburg to celebrate her special day! According to the invitation (which was downright precious, by the way) this was a girl's only event, hence calling it a hen party. However, based on his pure deluxe cuteness, it was decided that our precious, little rooster could tag along.

This GORGEOUS place belongs to Neva's parents. I can't even begin to tell you how peaceful and serene it was to sit out on the front porch and just "be". The view was amazing!

Weston was treated to his first close-up view of a cow! It was so funny to see his face when he finally caught sight of this big girl! She and her three other friends are all expecting new calves any day! Neva's parents also have some chickens and a rooster who greeted us each morning with a big "cocka-doodle-doo"! I loved that!

We also saw wild turkeys and lots of deer.

Here is a great shot of some of the younger hens - Bailey, Nicki, Stevie and Margie!

Here is sweet Weston with his Grandma Beverly - aka Grandma BiBi! I had so much fun getting to spend time with Beverly. Weston's Granny and Grandma BiBi teamed up to almost become Pictionary champions until "mean" ol' Mommy and Cathy passed us up for the win! We'll get em' next time!

Here is Scooty Bug "talking" to Cathy. She was just dying to get her hands on Weston and can't wait for a grandbaby of her own! Her daughter, Margie, is getting married in about a year so maybe she won't have to wait too much longer! I also loved spending time with Cathy, just hanging out and hearing about all of the wedding plans.

And, of course, this is Weston with his "Auntie" Neva, the birthday girl! I just ALWAYS love to spend time with Neva. We have been friends for soooooooooooooo long and I never, ever, EVER tire of her company. We can make each other laugh like crazy. Plus, Neva always throws the very best parties! I felt so privileged to be one of the hens!

Weston was such a good sport putting up with all of us girls. We would go from sunup to WAAAAAAY past sundown each day and he would just go with the flow! Here he is all cuddled up in his jammies and ready for bed so that all the hens could party on! We had a GREAT time sipping cocktails, eating all sorts of bad for you foods, playing lots and lots of fun games and talking until we literally gave out!

Here's Weston sitting in his bouncy chair just listening to all the "hen cluck"! I'm sure he was storing all kinds of information to go home and report to his Daddy!

This is the result of one loooooong, hoooooooot shopping trip to Trade Days in Fredericksburg! Weston definitely didn't "get" the attraction, but all of us hens were thrilled to find fun stuff!

Feeling sooooooooooooooooooo much better to be back at the cabin and to have a nice, cool bath! That smile makes my heart explode!

And, this is how we all felt at the close of our amazing weekend - POOPED, but oh so glad to have had such fun together. Thanks for everything, Neva - we love you sooooo much! And, thanks to Neva's Mom and Dad for so graciously welcoming all of us to your beautiful home. We can't wait to come back!!!