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As you know from Iris’ CVS birthday party, we LOVE a good theme. So when Iris (who still loves CVS, but is now way into Stranger Things) turned ELEVEN, we had only one choice. I made a fun little Reel to recap the party & have a ton of photos following. Now, the count down to season five (and age 12) is on!
On October 15, 2012 Iris turned a big ONE year old! We kept it simple by celebrating in our backyard with cupcakes, cold drinks, hot dogs, and lots of friends and family.
This was the year.
The year that I crossed over.
To the dark side.
And into my thirties.
I must admit,
I had been dreading it
all through my 29th year.
Now that I’ve made the leap
and joined the club,
I have to say
that the countdown
was the hard part
and now I’m actually
excited about 30.
I seriously celebrated
all week.
But here are some photos
from just Friday night.
We went to the
Ozark Corn Maze
and then out on the town.
Thank you to everyone
for such a warm welcome
to the big 3-0!
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GL(who’s a high school teacher)
had her class make me this poster.
So cute!
And quite hilarious
when you read it up close.
The maze!
This sign was already set up
for a little girl’s party.
Haha.
Yeah, we got lost.
The Cow Train!
Now this was fun.
It was so freakin bumpy,
I’m surprised it doesn’t scare the kids.
I’m a cheap date.
$1.50 hot dog birthday dinner.
And it was sooo good.
Drinks at Kingfish.
GL & Brains got me a Hobo clutch
& a sparkly headband.
Love!
Being surprised by cake!
You can see it way in the back.
A pedi-cab ride on Dickson.
My very first time
at Roger’s Rec.
Lots of fun
for my lots of years.
Thanks, friends & family!
For the gifts that I haven’t mentioned here,
the phone calls,
the Tweets
and the Facebooks.
You guys are the best.
Thank you.
We spent the weekend
in one of my favorite towns, Kansas City.
Just three and a half hours aways,
we couldn’t pass up spending a couple days
celebrating our friend Seth’s birthday.
Once we arrived, we met Seth and Ashlee’s
new kitten Mike McNugget.
Sadie was a bit unsure of Mr. McNugget.
We enjoyed drinks with friends
and played with iPads.
We got late night greasy take out
from Town-Topic.
And when we got home
mine looked like this.
Boo.
We went on a field trip to Costco.
We tailgated outside of the
T-Bones game.
Thanks to Ashlee, everything was already set up
for our group to get into the baseball game.
(and with awesome seats)
There wasn’t much sports watching,
not by the girls at least.
Instead, we walked around the ballpark
convincing vendors to let us into their
beer huts & popcorn stands.
We even played some
basketball with strangers.
(and one of us in heels)
Good times.
You can donate five bucks
and request that they make an announcement.
We had fun with that.
“Welcome members and guests of Seth’s Dance Studio”
We threw done another fiver to add,
“Correction, Seth’s Pants Studio.”
Random, but funny to us.
Birthday boy goes
cray-zay.
I’m sad to report
that the T-Bones lost.
But this guy sure had fun…
And so did we.
On Saturday we celebrated
our beloved Dustin’s birthday.
He turned 31.
But from our party set-up…
you’d think he was turning 11.
Except for the buckets of beer.
We had an afternoon full of
summer fun.
Once the sun started to go down,
Birthday Boy still wanted to party.
He asked for an adventure,
so off to the casino we went.
We danced with strangers to a cheesy cover band.
And with each other.
I won 50 bucks on the dollar slots.
And then it was time to go home.
Other weekend treats included:
Spending time with a friend
who now lives in Austin.
Running into @jfarm
(Razorback basketball player)
outside of a bar.
And shuffleboard with my pal GL.
I was still feeling the fun
on Monday morning,
but it was all well worth it.