Just wanted to post a quick gallery of the birthday gathering we had for Misty last night. I wouldn’t really call it a birthday party because we didn’t do the whole singing-and-blowing-out-candles thing. Just a gathering of neighbors and friends.

Misty invited me to invite some friends and named Carly in particular. We used to work together until she moved on to bigger and better things, but Misty knew I was missing my friend so I asked and got to see her for the first time in over a month. I couldn’t tell you how happy I was when she and Markie accepted.

And we have new neighbors that we adore, too, and they came and made it a great evening. I tried hard to not be the geeky photographer the whole evening, and for me, that’s hard. But I enjoyed the experience with all these wonderful people. The Shady Villa nickname rings true here. Lots of noisy, high ISO shots, but I don’t care. I love my friends and that’s what the evening was really about.