Aunt Joe and Noelle cuddle by the fire while Aunt Joe prepares the program for the HAPY Girls party.

Aunt Joe, Aunt Elsie, Melissa, Aunt Polly, Cousin Linda, Cousin Brittany, Noelle, and Rosie all together at the family center.

Aunt Polly and Noelle are two peas in a pod!

Noelle loves gold ball ornaments… and she LOVES her cousin Brittany even more!

One of the games at the party was to make an ornament out of pipe cleaners. I don’t know whose this ornament was, but Noelle picked her winner!

Aunt Elsie and Noelle had lots of FUN this weekend… Aunt Elsie is going to have her very first grandbaby in March!

The HAPY girls is the social organization my grandmother, Mary Arnett, founded along with three of her best friends (her last name, Arnett, is the A in HAPY), and although all the founding H.A.P.Y. girls have passed away, the group remains strong, meeting for lunch once a month to celebrate each other’s birthdays and precious lives.