Escape of the Patio Umbrella

I spent Saturday the 17th with Mom and Amber. We have two cousins getting married, one the last weekend of May and the other the first weekend in June, and their bridal showers were back to back on Saturday. After the bridal showers we grabbed lunch and brought it home so we could start making invitations to Britney's bridal shower on June 7th.

It was a beautiful day outside so we decided to go in the backyard and make the invitations on the patio table. It was a little breezy, but not bad enough to go inside. It felt so much better to be outside than inside. Pretty soon, a random gust of wind came up and the invitations started going everywhere. As we started scrambling to catch them (and also make sure we didn't spill our diet pepsi's all over them) we noticed the umbrella to the table started moving. Before we could even think twice, the wind picked up the umbrella and pulled it right out of the center of the table. And over the roof it went.

The table we were sitting at when the umbrella blew away. I took this after the incident.

Amber and Mom seemed to have the invitations under control so I ran around the front of the house to save the umberella. When I reached the front yard it was on the lawn with pieces of it scattered about the grass. Pretty soon it tore off into the cul-de-sac where a couple of our neighbors were running to try and catch it.

This is where the umbrella landed on the lawn, then went flying into the cul-de-sac where the neighbors were trying to stop it. Crazy!

By the time I reached it, it was a little beat up. Pieces were broken off and the fabric was ripped in multiple areas. Our neighbors that helped me, Evelyn and Marie Bryner, were doing yard work and said they heard screams coming from our back yard. And when they looked over at our house they saw a big umbrella flying over it. I felt bad that Mom's umberella was broken. But it was definitely something we were all laughing about, considering how it happened.

Mom was sad, but it was hard for her not to laugh. :)

In the end, we were able to save the invitations. And they turned out pretty cute if you ask me. Here's the finished product:

In the end, it was a bitter sweet day. We ended up with a broken patio umbrella but some dang cute bridal shower invitations at the same time. Never a dull moment at the O'Connor's!