Happy Birthday Babe!

Tomorrow, my fiance will turn the big 32... we don't really have anything special planned... at least yet! We have talked about driving up to Boulder and checking out this mountain where our photographer took me during my bridal shoot but that is about it on the excitement scale!

This week we will celebrate Ian's birthday for most of the week... a brief trip to the valley at the end of the week... a movie with friends on Tuesday... dinner... oh and a honey-do list that I really want to be finished before our families get here next week for the wedding!

It is crazy to think that two years ago I posted a birthday blog for Ian that highlighted 30 reasons why I love him... and after reflecting on that post, I honestly couldn't say that there was anything that I missed when I originally sat down to make the list!!!

I love you and am thrilled beyond words that in just under 2 weeks you will be my HUSBAND!!!!

Birthday Fun

For Ana's 7th birthday we went to Bounce U for a Bouncing good time!!! Here are some pictures of Ana and her cousins in the Spiderweb trampoline thingy...

Here is Hallie Marie poking her head through one layer of the web... yes I was in the web with the girls...



Here is Luke looking down at me daring me to try to catch him.



Here Ellie and I are on the top layer of the web... success was ours!!!



Cousins are the best!



Even with a broken arm Ana managed to have a good time!! Here Ana was stuck in the web!!!
Below this is Ana poking her head through my level of the web!




Cousins are great... they will stick by you through thick or thin!!!! Kami is one of the bestest big sisters ever! I think she learned from the best on how to be a big sister... just look at her mom and her Aunt Kiki! All the kids are great siblings... Kami to Ellie and Luke, Ellie to Luke and Kami, Hallie to Lauren and Maggie, Lauren to Maggie and Hallie... and great to each other!!!



Ana, Hallie and Ellie... the almost triplets... October, January, and September babies!!!



Luke and Lauren... almost twins... born 6 weeks apart!!!!



I am glad that I got to experience the joys of seeing all of my kids grow and play at the party! It has been too long since I had seen Kami, Ellie, and Luke... let alone all together!!!! Fun was had by all, including the adults... Aunt Knit, Kimbo (AKA Aunt Kiki) and I joined in the fun with the kids on the obstacle courses... there are pictures of all of us... just don't have them!!!

Birthday Flowers

These are the beautiful flowers that were delivered to my school on my birthday! Goes to show that... guys are trainable!!!! :)

Then again it is hard to miss the hints that I left... work address placed in the Entertainment book where the flower coupons started...

I am thinking that the giver of the flowers is a pretty smart guy! Then again... maybe he is just trying to make up for never sending me flowers before and sending his sister flowers in years past!!!!

Birthday in T-Town- pt 1 (skating)

So for my birthday weekend, Brian so sweetly set up a game night at his house with some of our friends. We played the kids version of 20 Questions, which was funny since none of us are between 7 and 12... then we moved on to more mature games, like TulsaOpoly... I chose to be banker/real estate agent since I had taken Nyquil and knew I wouldn't be able to focus very well with all the coughing I have been doing as of late... So TulsaOpoly turned out to be a riot! We had so much fun! As a non-player, I ended up having almost $2000 and one piece of property! The night was a blast, even if the ratio of girls to guys was 1:7... and none of the other girls showed up... their loss!!!

Saturday it was his idea to take my nieces skating... I invited my Ana Rae and Blake to join us along with some of my other friends from Tulsa, he also invited some friends to join us. Unfortunately, Ana was unable to join since she has been sick... :( Maybe next time I can get her and the cousins together!!!!
Look at Kenzie skating all by herself, with no help!!! She actually did a good job of skating all by herself on the carpet and even tried on the rink!!! I am so proud of her! This was only her third time to go skating!!!
Look at Syrina go! She skated on her own the whole we were there... she is too big to hold her Aunt Tracey's hand!!!
Kenzie loves Davie!!! Today she had to share him with his girlfriend Brandi! But there wasn't too much competition there, Kenzie stole Davie's heart long before Brandi entered the scene!!!!
Me and Syrina sitting while they were doing something on the rink... I love my girls!
Kenzie joined us only after I fell!! Go figure...

See the next blog for the station pictures!

Birthday fun in T-Town pt. 2 (station)

So the other day while I was out shopping with Jen, I found these shirts that said "I (HEART) FIREMEN" on them... so being intrigued I looked and much to my surprise, they had tiny sizes in them! Perfect for the girls!!! So being the good aunt that I am, I had to buy them for my nieces!!! Why you might be asking???? Well cause we love the firemen that are in our lives!!! Here are the girls at my parents house before our festivities!
Here we are at the fire station with our FAVORITE fireman of all time, PAPA!!
Even puppy got into the picture action!!!!! He is hanging out on the siren on front of the ladder truck!
Here Kenz and Syrina are posing with puppy on the front of the ladder truck. We like taking pictures at the fire station!!!
Here I finally get my picture with the little princess!!! I love my nieces soooo much!!!!

I hope you enjoyed seeing my birthday weekend! Brian did such a wonderful job of planning fun activities for me while I was home! Unfortunately he only got to participate in some of the activities that he planned... see previous blog...