Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Summer Birthdays...

Summer means birthdays at our house.
Saige's was June 2nd
She turned 15...
how does this happen?????


Saige was super excited about her birthday this year...
I took her shopping the weekend before and she got far more than her share. hahaha
We opened presents with the family the night before.



 These two...



The younger ones were more than happy to hand her the presents. haha




She spent her actual birthday up at Bear lake with a few of her friends.
Tayler drove them up and Hayden came up later.
The girls had a blast of course.
She felt bad she couldn't take more... but she definitely had fun with Jaidyn, Emme and Abi.
Gosh I'm grateful for good friends for our girls.



 

Dinner at Cafe Sabor that night.


Then home for a movie at our house.
She was happy.
Can't believe she is 15.
She took drivers' ed. last month.
I'll tell you what... driving with her will keep you awake.
She doesn't listen well when I scream "STOP".
She causes me to curse, and my blood pressure to rise.
Just sayin'

My {gasp} 40th Birthday was June 18th.
Gosh I have been dreading this day.
Honestly I didn't care at all about turning 40.
That part didn't bother me in the least.
But... it is possible that I have a few friends that I had a little fun with on their big birthday.
I was hoping she would forget... hoping that the friends that I was nice to would back me up.
But I knew it was coming.
I prepared myself.
Told myself that no matter what I would be a good sport.
I'd just lock myself in my house for the day and deal with it.
I woke up to this...


Let's just say that my friends spent a ton of time... and a lot of money on my birthday.
{It may be Lisa, Deon and Kim... but I don't want to name names...}
This was just the beginning.

See those "pictures" in the park strip.
There were several different ones of those.
Me and my "terrified" face with all kinds of animals and birds.

Gosh I'm hot...

More pictures down on the corner.
I had to drive all over and I tried hard not to look.
But...
everyone saw them, everyone thought they were hilarious.
The wind picked up, some fell down.  Saige went around and hammered them back in.
I wasn't super happy about that I thought that if they fell, they fell, but whatever.

I had birthday wishes, love, treats all day.
It was awesome.
Then people started telling me about "shirts".
Shirts that people had seen,
how funny these shirts were.
How so and so had one...
etc. etc.

I had begged Shane not to do a surprise party, Lisa had promised it was just 4 couples going to dinner that night... so what were these shirts????

Shane and I left for Cafe Sabor...
I come across another huge picture of me on 8th east.
Up until this point I think I'd been a pretty good sport.
But some stupid surprise party was coming, THAT I DIDN'T WANT... and I blew!
Poor Shane.
I jumped out of the car and grabbed that sign that for all I knew had been there all day.
+ how many more were there that I hadn't seen????
+ what were these dang shirts all about????

Got to Cafe Sabor, there were my friends and I was a grump.
That was rude of me... I feel bad now.
But I was experiencing a severe case of anxiety.
There they were wearing the shirts.
Which were actually hilarious.
They assured me these were the only shirts... but 5 people had told me there were more...
I didn't believe them.
Long story short I calmed down some, but not before hurting feelings.
I felt bad because I knew they loved me and were just trying to help me have a good day.

We were going to Kim and Rusty's after.
That must be where all the other people were coming in the other shirts
.
But no.. it was there that I found out that Lisa had made about an hour long video that had taken approximately 3 months...
With music videos, memories AND the most hilarious part with about 50 of our neighbors wearing the shirts that they had made wishing me Happy Birthday... wearing them all around town too... like at Lee's, the Dr.'s office, a worker at Costa Vida, neighbors houses etc. etc. etc.

It must have taken FOREVER!!

So that's how everyone knew about "those shirts".

It was incredible.
I felt bad for being a poor sport.
But I hope they all know how much I appreciate them.
We've watched that video approximately 10 times.
It's awesome!



My girls were so sweet to me all day.

Saige made the cake. :)


WOW I am glad that day is OVER!!!
Major anxiety!!

Tayler's 17th Birthday was on July 1st.
That seems impossible... 17!!!

Tayler is normally a birthday snob.
She loves her birthday. loves everything birthday like, always wants a huge party etc.
This year she just wanted a date with Hayden... boring!  hahaha

Shane felt bad because he was still in Merida Mexico on a Temple trip that was taking way longer than expected.

Saige and I planned a surprise birthday breakfast for her.
She was surprised. :)

I hope she had fun.
It was last minute... we had no idea how many to plan on but it turned out perfect.


Lunch with Kelsee.
and a date with Hayden that night.

I hope it was a good day for you Tay we sure do love you.
I didn't even take pictures of her opening presents.
+ I didn't even get her a cake.
So Birthday cake ice cream had to do. :(


If you could stop getting older now I would be very, very, very happy with that!!!!


Kenna's 11th Birthday was July 3rd.

Present time with the family.





Is is obvious that Lydia would like a little more attention.

hahaha



Logan city Fireworks that night.
Just for her of course!

After the fireworks I decided to run to Lee's to grab cupcakes for her.
I was 5 blocks away and it took an entire hour to get there and home.
So her "cake and ice cream" happened at midnight!


Her friend party was on the 5th.
I drove her and 4 friends up to Bear Lake for the day.
They LOVED it.
They played at the lake and in the sand for FOREVER.




It was a gorgeous day.
and everyone else thought that Bear Lake sounded like a good idea this 4th of July weekend as well.


Honestly I'm not sure that I have ever been there when it was this crowded.
It was like this on both sides of us.
We squeezed in right by where they gas up the rentals.
The gas was pretty much dripping on their sand castles.
I hope that's not a problem... the girls didn't care... so...

They had fun at the pool.



Played games at the condo.
 Went mini-golfing.
and had a super fun time together!


Jadyn's birthday is next.
She's turning 8!!
And she can't wait!

Do you blame me that I get a little "partied out" in the summer????  :)

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