My 27th Birthday!!

We started celebrating on Thursday when Trevor called while I was on my way home from work saying we were going to dinner with Lindsey and Jason then to a movie. We went to see Crazy Stupid Love. We all thought it was really cute.  It is always nice to hang out with them. On Friday morning I took off work for my birthday. We usually don’t work on Fridays but they decided to open it up for a new thing we call no frown Friday, just cosmetic procedures. Trevor woke me up at 5:30 that morning while he was getting ready for work to give me my birthday gift. He was excited and told me he couldn’t wait. I sat up in bed and opened this….

I was so surprised and happy!! It took me like 5 minutes to put them on because they have the screw on backs. I need those for sure though so I will not loose them. Of course then I had a hard time going back to sleep due to the excitement. But eventually I did. After I woke up for the second time I got ready to go get my hair done on 280. After I got finished my mom met me and we went to the Cheesecake Factory. It was so yummy. After we ate our pasta we had to get cheesecake. I decided to venture out from my plain cheesecake with strawberries to this delicious red velvet cheesecake….

After lunch we went shopping at the summit for a little bit before I headed home. After I got home Trevor and I hung out for a little while and instead of going to play tennis, due to the 100 degree temperatures, we decided to take a little nap. After we woke up as we were getting ready for dinner he told me we were meeting Marcie and Morris. When we walked in Iguana Grill I found some of my favorite people there. Trevor had invited some of my girlfriends to come. I was so happy to see them there. Trevor did so good! After we hung out for a few hours there we went by and saw Devin play for a few minutes on the way home.  I had such an amazing birthday. I am so thankful for the friends and family that I have. Thank you everyone who came to celebrate with me!

 

Please continue to pray for my dad, he is still in Virginia. He should be home next weekend!

Our Weekend and Trevor’s Birthday!

On Friday my dad left to go to Virginia for the wild land fires there. So please say an extra prayer for his safety while he is gone. He can be there for up to 16 days.

On Saturday, we went to the casino for Trevor’s birthday with his family. We had a lot of fun. When we got there we went straight to our rooms to get ready for dinner. We went to the nicest restaurant there called Miko’s. It was so good. After dinner we started playing the slots for a while. I am pretty sure this is the first time in a long time we came home without loosing any money. We didn’t really come home with any extra though. Trevor and I both won some on the machines so we basically just played on the casinos money the whole time. Pretty nice!

On Sunday after we got home we went down to Lay Lake to celebrate my friends daughter, Sara Bentley’s first birthday party. It was pretty toasty outside that day. She had a good time eating her cake and playing with her presents that her sister helped her open.

On Monday we went to dinner with Trevor’s family at Olive Garden for his 29th birthday. After dinner we went back to the house and had his favorite Edgars strawberry cake and ice cream and opened presents.

Good weekend but tiring. Hope everyone else had a wonderful weekend.

Won Ton’s Reveal Party

On Sunday evening Marcie and Justin Morris had a reveal party for their upcoming baby’s gender. It was exciting to find out what they were having with them and the family. It was a cute idea. I had never been to one before. They had the ultrasound and saw all of the babies feature except the sex. They got the ultrasound tech to write it down and put it in an envelope to give to the lady that made the cake. When they cut into the cake it was BLUE. Just what they had hoped. Of course they would have been happy with either! This is them cutting the cake…..and then the reaction after they knew…

 

 

It was fun to see their faces. It was nice to see so many friends there. Here is a few more pictures…

 

Her sister that lives in  Tampa was on skype on the computer watching the whole time. We were so tired still from our trip though so we only stayed for around an hour before meeting Trevor’s parents for dinner. Even though we were tired I am so glad we were able to be there with them. I am excited to start planning a shower that I am hosting for them. Can’t wait to see “Carter Gordon Morris” in person!!!

Beach Long Weekend

On Wednesday Trevor and I left work  around lunch and headed down to the beach. We stayed with our friends Devin and Mary at his parents condo in Gulf Shores.  On Wednesday afternoon when we got there we unpacked then hung out on the beach for a while. That night we went to dinner at Rocco’s, a pizza and oyster place.

We had oysters Rockefeller and pizza. It was so yummy. We go there every time we come down here. All day Thursday it was rainy and yucky outside so we went shopping at the outlets while the boys fished off the pier. We tried to go to The Hangout that night but there was a very long wait so we ended up going to good ole Mikey’s which is always good.

On Friday we went to LuLu’s for lunch after hanging out on the beach for a little while.

We played a few games while we waited. I always love to go there. There was such a pretty view from where we were sitting. We saw so many boats that docked to eat that the boys said, “that would work for us”. On Saturday we basically just hung out on the beach the whole day.

I am glad we were able to get away for a little while. I feel so lucky to be able to do as much as we have this summer. Now that I am out of school it is easy just to pick up and go when  we please. Trevor’s family had not decided  if we were going on a family vacation this year until the other day. They booked this beautiful house at Grayton Beach. We will be leaving to go with them the Saturday of Labor Day weekend.

 

 

Wade and Melanie’s Wedding

On Saturday I spent the morning studying for boards. That afternoon Trevor and I went over to Yarbrough’s house to hang out by the pool before all the wedding festivities. The wedding was in Blountsville, AL. On the way there we drove for around an 1 and then the bottom fell out. It stormed on us for only about 15 minutes though. I was getting really worried for them, due to it being an outside ceremony. Luckily as we got closer it had not rained a drop. It was probably to hottest wedding I have ever been to.  There was not a cloud in the sky and it was around 90 degrees.

            

It was in the middle of a field that backed up to a barn. We sat on hay bales covered with quilts. Definitely Mel and Wade style! 

After everyone was soaked from the wedding we hung out for a little while and ate barbeque. They had an ice cream machine, which was such a cute idea but unfortunately they couldn’t get it to work. I give them props for the idea though. They look so cute having there first dance as a married couple and with her dad.

                  

   

After we left the reception we headed to On Tap in Hoover with some people from the wedding. We stayed out pretty late for us but had a good time with friends. I am so happy for Wade and Melanie. They left today to go to Key West!! I wish them all the happiness  love can offer.

Hope everyone else had a great weekend!

4th of July Weekend

     On Friday Trevor and I were both off work.  We went to breakfast and ran a few errands because we had a showing at our house. That afternoon I studied some for boards and Trevor went golfing. After he got home we got packed up to go to the lake for the weekend. We went with our friends Devin and Mary to Steve and Susan’s lake house at Lake Martin.

This was Stanford’s first road trip. He did pretty good. We put all of our clothes and things in Devin’s truck so he would have more room in the back of the Jeep. Trevor took the back seat out so we could put Stanford’s bed back there. He really had it made. He could just lay on his fluffy bed the whole way, but no! He wanted to be between us the whole time. We got down there around dinner time, so after we ate we went on a night boat ride with the dogs. I love doing that there. It is so dark in the middle of the water and the only light is the little one on top of the boat. The sky looks so pretty out there. We, of course, had to take the I pad out there with the app where you can name all the stars!! Friday night was a late night. We didn’t go to bed until around two in the morning. That is really late for us old people that usually are in the bed at 10 every night.                                                                                  

     On Saturday morning we woke up ate a little breakfast and then headed outside for the day. They have three boats at the house; a massive pontoon boat, a Moomba ski boat, and a really nice fishing boat. Trevor and I rode around a lot on the jet ski too.

 

Steve, the master chef that he is, stayed inside all morning making homemade chicken soup and cornbread for us to eat for lunch. After we ate lunch we took the pontoon boat out to this little island and let the dogs play for a little bit.

I took a little nap on the way back, as you can see they took pictures.

 

It was the best sleep. Everyone was so tired that night. I am pretty sure everyone was is bed by 10, with an exception to me who went to bed at umm…around 8.

     On Sunday morning Steve made us sweet eggs, biscuits, bacon, and sausage for breakfast. After we got finished eating we started cleaning some outside to get ready for there party that night. Trevor and I helped some with that, played with the dogs in the water, and rode around on the jet ski a couple more times before we headed home. Trevor was ready to get home so we didn’t stay around for the party. I have never seen so many fireworks in my life at the house. They bought them early and were planning on shooting them that night. I am sure it was loud.

On the way home Stanford didn’t do as well. It was in the heat of the day and he wasn’t getting the air he needed or something. We had to stop and get him some water and let him rest a little over half way home. Poor thing, after we got home he layed on the tile and didn’t move for a couple of hours. He was so tired from the car ride home and all the swimming.  Sunday night we grilled out over at Catherine’s house with her and HB. We made steaks and corn on the cobb. It was so yummy.

On Monday the 4th….we weren’t very patriotic! For lunch we went to Margareta Grill with Marcie and Morris. We were planning on going to bowl afterwards but that plan did not work. We went up to the bowling ally in Pelham and they were closed. So then Trevor thought he called Vestavia to see if they were open and they were, so we drove to Vestavia. It turns out they were closed and he really called the one on 280 by mistake. We didn’t really feel like driving up there so we went to Buy Buy Baby instead. What fun we had there…We looked at bedding, gliders, and every other thing in the store.

The boys were cracking us up. After we left there we went to their new house to see the progress they had made on building. It is very nice and I can’t wait to see it finished. As soon as we pulled up to the house it started storming really bad and it continued to do that for the rest of the day.  We had planned on going to Jackson’s in Homewood for dinner and then to watch the fireworks. With it being so nasty outside we just decided to stay home and order in Chinese. We grilled out a lot over the weekend but for a recap…on the actual 4th we had Mexican for lunch and Chinese for dinner.