30 Is The New 20!

That's what Brad kept telling me over the weekend at least...  Thursday was my 30th birthday and I have to admit, I wasn't too excited about turning 30 but it was great!
WARNING:  PICTURE OVERLOAD!!

Austin was so sweet and got me flowers, breakfast and a card in the morning.

Beautiful flowers!

Thursday night we headed out to dinner at Pappadeaux, it was SO GOOD!

Saturday night Tracy, Liz & Austin threw me a birthday bash at our house.  They are the best!

All the 30 stuff

1980 trivia playing cards!

Two of my besties  :)

Me with the hubs/BBQ grill master

A few Townsends!

Austin with his momma

Tracy gave me the best gift for my bday!  We have a slight obsession with Gilmore Girls so she got me the same thing I got her for her 30th bday, the entire series!  SO awesome!  L.O.V.E it!

Miss Leah gave me birthday kisses for my bday  :)

Leah loves Amber  :)

Carter and Leah sharing like good little kids.  It was so sweet

Leah having so much fun with Pops!

Look who learned how to drink out of a straw!

The best party planners ever!  They were so sweet to do everything and on top of it all they scheduled a surprise mani/pedi for me for Saturday so I wouldn't try to help set up.  :)  They know me too well!

My little buddy who was too interested in everything else to look at the camera

So, we decided that the food theme of this party was bacon and jalapeños.  Just about everything had one or the other included.  Seriously.  I don't think they planned that either.  Here were some of the bacon wrapped chicken/jalapeño/cheese things Cindy made.  YUM!

One of the two birthday ice cream cakes.  Funny story about the cakes.  Liz ordered them and showed up at the WRONG store!  A completely different company and everything.  Ha!  So, she got two yummy replacement cakes.  :)

Hopefully I get my wish!  ;)

Tracy & Megan

Liz & Chris

This was funny.  Tracy came up to me and said "I think Dad parked RIGHT UP to my car!"  So we went out to investigate.

You think he got close enough?!?  Ha!  Nice job Dad!  ;)

Chris giving his best "monster" face.  That's his name for B.

Brad, Austin and Stephen hanging out

Rach & Me

Sweet Dede and me.  

Just so you know, I didn't paint my house yellow, it just look that way in these pictures for some reason.  Weird.  I need to check out my camera settings apparently.

Katie showed up late night!  

Tracy got me "3-0" sparklers!  They were funny, and scared me a little bit.  Ha!

My buddy Stephen.  We all have the best stories about this guy, he cracks us up!  

All the crazy kids playing beer pong

Katie & Lunchbox

Uh oh, they are celebrating something here...

Brad (who was asking to be called Bradley at this point) and Dean (aka. Benjamin Franklin to

 Liz)
So nice of them to come all the way down here for the party!

"Bradley" and me

Me and my sis!  Love her!


I had a great 30th birthday and bday party!  Thank you everyone for coming and having fun with me!  I have the best family and friends anyone could ask for!!  :)

Adventures In Babysitting

Labor Day weekend was 100% about LEAH!  Austin and my Dad were on a boys trip, Tracy & Ryan were both out of town and my Mom and I were watching Leah over the weekend.  

This is a pretty good picture of what it's like watching Leah.  She has all her toys around playing with several at once while making funny faces.  :)

Friday night after we went out to dinner Leah wanted to watch some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  You think she likes it??  (some of the pictures are iPhone pics, sorry for poor quality)

Dancing girl!

After Leah partied enough she went roaming the house and found her car seat that her Daddy brought.   

She was busy figuring out how to get in it.

Success!

But how do you get out??

Pretty Leah all banged up.  :(  She just started walking on her own last week and has had a few falls along the way...

Happy girl eating breakfast!

Leah wanting to love on Minnie.  So sweet

Leah learned how to give kisses this weekend!  They may be a tad wet but they're still good kisses.  :)

Us at The Cheesecake Factory. She may not look so happy here but I promise she was. :)  I think she might have had a puff in her mouth.

The three of us!

We took her to get some shoes now that she's a big girl walker.  She wasn't a fan of getting her feet measured.

A Mum Mum helped make up for that!  Leah with her new kicks.

Silly girl entertaining me on the way back to Lainey's house

This is what Leah thinks of shopping

Leah is pretty new to the sippy cup concept. She eventually decided trying to drink like that wasn't going to work. Smart girl. :)

This is what three dogs look like after watching Leah run around. My Mom and I could relate. ;) Check out Gabby WAY down behind the cushion. Ha!

Who ya talking to Leah? She needed her cell phone.  Too bad her Daddy forgot to leave her DIAPER BAG where her cell phone is (along with lots of other important items)!

She is so smart, she knows which toys are the dogs and tries to give the toys to them.  As you can see, Gabby was super interested in this...

Saturday afternoon we headed to my house and Leah was happy for a change of scenery.  She was a wild girl!

This video cracks me up!  I feel kind of bad for watching and laughing but it was just too funny not to.  That is Brody's toy by the way.  I guess he figured since her toys were all over HIS house he wasn't about to give up one of his!

Leah, you won't find anything to eat in there...

This girl LOVES to eat!

I put down her Bumbo seat and she kept trying to get into it.  As you can see she was getting a little frustrated...  This went on for a while.  Over and over again.

Yay!  With a little help from Aunt Kelly she got in!

Little girl wore herself OUT!

Sunday evening Leah and I headed back to her house to wait for her Mom to get back from the airport.  The 1st thing she went to was the kitchen we made her!  :)

Monday morning Tracy showed Leah a picture of Ryan on her phone.  She loves her Daddy.  So cute!  I love how she smiles and points to him when she sees him.  :)

So, like I said, this weekend was all about Leah and it was so much fun!  Exhausting, but fun  :)  I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend!