Happy B-Day Ethel

When our family all gets together, we like to play games. One of the best games we have is Hilarium. Hilarium is a game of mass confusion. Everyone gets a handful of cards. There are two of each card and your job is to find who has the matches to each of your cards. The cards say something like, "Aerobics Instructor" and you have to act out what is on your card at the same time everyone else is acting out what is on their cards. It's wild, it's crazy, it's completely ridiculous and the perfect game to play when someone is coming to meet the family for the first time. . . Right? Well, that's exactly what happened when my brother brought a girl home to meet us for the first time. Heather withstood the trial by Hilarium and glided across the kitchen floor as a figure skater with pure ease and made one of the best Hilarium bull riders this family has ever witnessed! 

Heather became my sister in law, and sometimes I wonder if I am supposed to call her by her real name or by her gladiator name "Beautimus-Maximus" that was so affectionately given to her by my brother. (I was given the name Gluteus-Maximus... I see a problem here!) 

Heather is the only person I know who can make it through a massive throng of screaming teenagers trying to shove their way into a theater to see Twilight, 1 month before having a baby, and without even spilling the cheese to her soft pretzel! AMAZING! 

Heather is a good person and I look forward to the day when we jump in our Biscayne, scarves and cat eyed sunglasses on head, and make our way to the Grand Canyon. We're not going to drive off, we are just going to look around and then drive to the closest place there is to get a shake. 

Happy Birthday to my only sister-in-law and the only horse shoe partner I've ever had. . . Ethel!

-Maude