A Birthday Party

We celebrated Nate's birthday this week.

We did things a little different this year. Normally we have a small party with a few friends, but mostly family, including brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and whatever family might be in town at the time. 

This year Nate decided to do a BBQ with some of our good friends!

It was a fun evening of food and fellowship. The kids had fun playing in the backyard together.

The "men folk" did a great job with the grilling! Look at how focused they all are! :)

Everyone brought something yummy to share. Our awesome friend Melanie made this delicious Texas sheet cake and provided the cool birthday candles!

We all sang happy birthday to Nate.

And we even got the guys to pose for some pictures together!

Even with 13 kids running around crazy it turned out to be a really fun evening! The food was great and the time with friends even better!

Thanks friends for making Nate's birthday extra special this year!

Happy Birthday Nate!!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband Nate!! I Love You Babe!!!

The Last 20

This year I decided to celebrate my birthday the day before my actual birthday. To celebrate the last day of my 20's. Well actually I did it because I was leaving out of town the morning of my birthday but it sounds more fun to say I did it on purpose. It was a fun night out with friends. Little man stayed the night at Grammy's house so Nate and I could have the night free to do whatever my heart desired.



We went to a yummy steakhouse in town that in my opinion has the best steak and baked potato ever! I love it! It worked out perfect for us because we also had just been given a gift card to this restaurant!



After dinner, because it was my birthday, I got to decide what we did for the rest of the night. Everyone had babysitters so we had the evening free. Much to the guys dismay we all went to see the movie Eclipse. I think they enjoyed it more than they let on, but of course they couldn't admit it to us! The girls had fun though, apart from the noisy kids and people who just couldn't stay in their seats. The seats were also very creaky because we went to the old theatre in town, so anytime someone moved or got up you would hear, creeeak, creeeak. It made for an entertaining movie experience for sure!



My friend Melanie made me a cherry cheesecake (one of my favorites!) for my birthday dessert so after the movie we all headed over to our place to dig in. It was very scrumptious! Doesn't it look yummy? Thanks Melanie, Rodney, Brian, Kristy and Nate for a wonderful "Last day of my 20's" celebration!

And thank you to the babysitters who took the kids for the night so the adults could go play!

A good time to start...

Yesterday was the last day of my 20's….yes….today I turned 30!! I thought now would be a good time to start a blog. I've been pondering it for awhile as I look at other blogs and love what I see. Just maybe someone would be interested in what I have to say? I've thought maybe my life was too boring and I wouldn't have enough funny/interesting/non-boring facts to write about….and this is probably true. However here I am...I hope to be able to share my daily adventures of family, work, children and life in general with my family and friends. Hope you enjoy the adventure!