Owen turns 1!

This weekend we celebrated Owen’s 1st birthday! His party was airplane themed so, of course, I stole most of the party decor ideas from pinterest. Who thinks of their own ideas anymore!? #TooMuchEffort. Owen slept for the first half of his party because he wanted to make a grand entrance. I thought it was a brilliant idea. Then he showed off his flight suit and tore right into his cake. Well, at first he was confused at why he had a giant thing on his highchair since he usually is given bite sized pieces. When he realized it was a tower of sugary goodness he did not hesitate to dig right in. We oo’d and awe’d, took a million pictures, then devoured the dessert table. I’d say Owen had a blast and is so thankful to everyone who came to celebrate. 

The smash cake, cupcakes, and cake pops were made by the amazing I Hart Cupcakes (hartcupcakes@gmail.com)!

First 30th Birthday Celebration

That's right, I had more than one birthday celebration. Apparently when you turn 30 you get to have multiple birthday celebrations. I may or may not have planned multiple parties for myself, so I could eat unscrupulous amounts of cake and not be judged. Is that bad? I didn't think so.

Aren't birthdays more fun when your whole family is there? My brother and sis in law live about 6 hours from us, so we don't always get to have them with us during birthday celebrations. However, they were here to celebrate my 30th! My family celebrations are generally spent drinking coffee, talking, laughing, eating, laughing some more, drinking more coffee, and eating cake. It's a brilliant combo if you ask me.

 

 

Cheering gets the job done

My amazing husband and his BFF Nathan built me a deck this weekend! Yes, it was for me because anything that’s done in the month of March is in celebration of my birthday. Don’t you celebrate your birthday all month long!? I take full advantage of it. Anyways, they started and completed this beautiful deck in just 2 days! Owen and I were very impressed. I supported them by bringing them ice water every so often and cheering them on. I’m pretty sure my cheers were what they needed to finish the job so quickly. Maybe they worked so fast because they were trying to get me to stop cheering... hmmm interesting… either way it worked!

Almost 30. Yikes!

Did anyone get a little freaked out when they turned 30? I would say I’m about 90% in awe of how much my life has changed over the past decade and 10% freaked out. Not logically freaked out, just not being able to say, “I’m in my 20’s” is odd to me. However, life has changed so much in my 20’s and just thinking about it all makes me smile. I’ve graduated college, made countless memories with some amazing besties, traveled to several countries, met the man of my dreams and got married, bought a house and had the sweetest baby boy a mama could ask for! Holy moly! Life is an adventure!

Now before I get too sentimental and start weeping all over my laptop (lingering prego hormones) I want to make some New Years resolutions. I’m usually a little late for the January resolutions so I figure my birthday is a good time to set them! Here we go…

1. Take more pictures! Especially since I have the cutest babe rolling around my casa.
2. Lose the remaining 6 lbs of baby weight. Stubborn little buggers.
3. Don’t let the fact that my husband is 27 and I’m 30 (A completely different decade!) get to me too much.
4. Blog more. Keep me accountable please!
5. Become a better cook. Which basically means to cook more than my 15 revolving dishes.
6. Read more.

How about you? Did you freak out a little when you turned 30? Or does the thought turning 30 bother you at all?

Welcome to the family baby Lucas

What is it about newborn babies that makes you realize what a miracle life is? This week my older sister, Lisa, her husband, Anson, and two kids, Chloe and Vincent welcomed a new member into their family. Baby Lucas was 7 lbs, 9 oz. and came into this world with 10 perfect little toes, 10 flawless little fingers, sweetly plump lips and a rather powerful set of lungs. I must say, I love newborn babes cries. They are so pure and lovable. Of course, I’m not listening to them cry at 3am, so it’s still cute to me!

I had the honor of being there when big sister, Chloe, met Lucas for the first time. She glanced his way, and I’m pretty sure she thought, “Yep, that’s a baby.” Graciously, baby Lucas had a gift for his big sis, and she loved it! Lucas is already so thoughtful. I wasn’t there when Lucas gave his big brother, Vincent a gift but I’m sure Vincent loved it, and Lucas of course.

Welcome to the family Baby Lucas. You are already loved so so very much!

  

big yawns

 

Hunger Games Celebration

On my actual birthday my in-lawed sisters, and mother-in-law took me to dinner and a movie. I'm so thankful to have married into this family. I truly adore them. The night went like this, dinner, laughs, coffee (always a celebration if you ask me), laughs, then we watched Hunger Games!!! I always have a blast with them. Also, I apparently only read teen books because I read all of the Hunger Games books... twice.  Thankfully two of my sisters-in-law are teens, so I didn't look like the weirdo, trying to be 17, pushing other actual teens in line trying to get a better seat, and seeing the movie the day it came out. Thanks for a fantastic birthday family!

 

Celebration with the Key Family

Last week was my birthday! My immediate family celebrated with me over a yummy breakfast at a local restaurant a few days before my birthday. The rain was pouring down outside and this restaurant thought it was just too warm in the restaurant so they cranked the AC.  I think the owner might have been cold blooded. We froze while we ate breakfast, chatted and caught up, but I still had a good time. This was the first out of several birthday celebrations for me. I was spoiled to say the least, and I loved every second of it! Here are a few pics from breakfast.

Celebrations

This weekend was packed full of birthday celebrations. One of my best friend’s babies turned 1year old! We celebrated the day with them and watched little Blake utterly enjoy eating his birthday cake. Don’t you wish that you could eat cake like a 1 year old sometimes? Shoving handfuls of frosting in your mouth, smearing it all over your face and everyone around cheers you on because you are too dang cute! Who are we kidding, I still get frosting all over my face, in my hair, and on whatever outfit I tried to look cute in. Husband cheers me on when I miraculously don’t get food in my hair though. So there’s that.

My besty Aimee had a birthday this weekend too. We ate at Bucca De Peppos and oh-my-goodness there was an enormous amount of food! We ate some of that yummy food, caught up on missed memories, and laughed til our stomachs ached (which is a great abs workout, by the way). Then Phil and I took home everyone’s leftovers (it’s true) so we have enough food to last us a year. Here are a few pictures from our wonderful weekend.