Marco Island

This past weekend was our beachy family reunion at Marco Island. Many, many, many laughs were had, games were played and birthdays were celebrated. 

The night I flew in, my mom, her two sisters and their mom went to go visit my great aunt Susan. (I was pretty bummed I didn't get to go). She turns 90 in March so they had cake, wine and a home-cooked meal. They said she was as sharp as a whip, hysterical and so so happy they were there to visit. (Side Note: my aunt Amy [blonde] bought Hello Kitty birthday hats just to be fun. We barely took them off all weekend. Multiple people made comments, took our picture, some sang to us, and we all got some free drinks!)

The sunsets were breathtakingly beautiful, food was yummy and the family time swelled my heart. We may be overwhelmingly dysfunctional and dramatic, but I still love my family. 

I'd love to share some pictures if you'd like to take a peek...

Cake Anyone?

It's the last day of August, so I thought I'd get one more birthday cake in. The boy's Aunt and her family threw a little birthday get-together for all the August babies in the family (I was so ecstatic that they included me! :) We had yummy dinner and then Hannah baked a from scratch red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. And then she ate it all. 

PS. Check out her little sister's reaction! Ha!

Birthday Video

I'm 25! The boy took me kayaking (I didn't take my phone), out to eat and to the Braves game. Then I threw myself a little dinner party.


[ps. excuse the change of viewing due to the silly video taker at that time. and beware of the boy's "bankhead bounce".]



(video taken with 8mm iPhone app)

I'm at the beach!

I'll be uploading my birthday video tomorrow. But for now I'm enjoying sunshine, good books and margaritas with my girls.

Laughter and Cake

My dinner party last night was one of the best I've had. There was a group of 8 of us. Eating tacos, drinking margaritas, singing happy birthday and the best of all, laughing. I even lost my voice a little from laughing so much. 

Friends really do mean the world to me, and I'm so thankful for mine.

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Joyeux Anniversaire

Pretty excited about being a quarter old. 

(a video about this weekend and tonight is in the works. stay tuned :) image via)

Birthday Party

Maybe when I decide to really grow up and buy a cute little house, I'll throw great backyard parties. They'll be great. I'm determined. Until then, I'll dream and come up with great ideas for how to celebrate birthdays.

(Check out those streamers! Here's a tutorial. Pictures 2 [how amazing is that chocolate cup!], 3 and 4.)

Party Dress

I'm seeing a theme in my last couple of posts...BIRTHDAY!! Keeping in theme...let's talk about party dresses! As I mentioned before, the boy has planned an entire day with birthday activities this weekend. He made a comment a week or so ago about having dinner reservations to fancy shmancy place. I don't really have a lot of dresses, so here's some inspiration (even though I could probably only afford one of these dresses :)

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