This past month we celebrated my mom's 54th birthday!! Whoo hoo! doesn't she look fabulous?? I think so. I love my mom so much. I love that she has always been patient with her kids, esp Danny. (not pictured in any of this). To celebrate, we went to dinner at Texas Road House. Kole was unable to attend due to the fact that he was somewhere else (at this time I do not remember where that is ). Last time we went to TRH my mom got on the saddle! It was hilarious. She didn't do it this year though she claimed that is what she wanted. Apparently the waiters/waitresses there have to do some lame-o line dance during a certain song. I should have taken a picture because these people looked like they could give a Rat's you know what. It was hilarious, and quite dumb. I wouldn't want to do that, that's for sure. Oh and I swear, if you don't want to wait 2 hours for a table at TRH, then you need to do the call ahead sitting or be there at 5 for dinner, cause when we left, oh my hell was it busy outside!! that place is always ridiculously busy!! It was nice having my older sister, Kristin there with us. She has been in Tennessee for the past few months and just recently came back home (oh but now she's moved to Utah...) but for the past 3 or 4 weeks, I have enjoyed spending time with her. Kody sure missed her too. Kody loves Kristin so much.
Kody so happy to take pictures with her aunt. She actually requested having her pics taken!! (kody, not kristin, though Kristin was happy too)
Kelli, and I. I know you all love the arm in these self photo's ;) (for you kathleen)
Sis, babe, and dad. I love kody's expression here. She is so super excited. I am so glad that she has family around her that love her so much and show that love for her. I feel bad for those little babies who don't get the love they deserve.
This is what kelli does... She hoards the bread!! It was so funny I had to take a picture of it. yes they have good bread and cinnamon butter, but c'mon! Too funny. I guess the food would have gone to waste regardless, so at least she's not wasting what was already ours.
A couple weekends ago, Kole and I went out with a couple different friends of ours on a triple date. It was so much fun!! We went to Costa Vida for dinner. I usually don't care for Costa Vida. I didn't understand what the hype was all about. Last time I had it, it was only alright, but I got the shredded chicken salad this time and it was actually quite tasty! Too many people there for sure, and I still don't see the super hype about it, but it was good for the time being. After that we walked around the shopping complex there, got ocean blue frozen yogurt (well Kole didn't cause he's a weirdo like that) Who doesn't like frozen yogurt?? or ice cream?! Anyway, we even walked around in a toy shop for a while. After all that, we were trying to figure out something fun to do. It was only 730 for crying out loud!! We needed to do something fun. Well turns out, Craig knows an individual who happens to be the caretaker of a house that I have been dying to go into for 13-14 years!! This house is supposedly haunted. As we're walking around the house, the guys of course are going in room to room without any sense of fear and us girls were little squeak boxes! Every little noise or crunch of glass or anything freaked us out!! We made our way upstairs and as we were about to enter the master bedroom, the doors looked a little too perfectly set up! Craig and jason were in front by the door, i was behind them, Kathleen behind us, kole off to the side, and Jeannie somewhere in the back. I didn't see her, so I don't actually know where she was. Well as Craig and Jason opened the doors, out comes this man dressed up in a warewolf mask! Kathleen and I start screaming, she's holding on to me for dear life hiding behind me while pushing me toward the guy, and Jeannie is half way down the stairs. She was out of that area so quick! It was hilarious. Turns out, the warewolf guy is the man Craig knows. Oh they thought that was hilarious! And looking back on it, and really during it, it was dang funny!! After we were done looking in the rest of the house, we all went outside. Us girls decided to go walk around in the groves. We tried to scare the guys by sneaking up on them, but we failed miserably. They ended up scaring us again, because they saw us sneaking up on the, decided to hide (well Kole did while the others walked away "looking" for us). I had such a great time!! I love getting together with good friends/neighbors!
Birthday dinner for my mom. I love celebrating birthdays! I celebrate mine for about a week!! With going out to lunch or dinner with friends, family parties, and sunday dinner parties! Gotta love it
I made the cake with the candles. My mom made the peach pie dish with a fancy crust that i don't remember what was in it. I'm sure it was good. I don't eat the crust on any pie. It grosses me out (weird, I know)
I loved having my sister home. I missed her so much and I'm sad that she's already gone. At least St. George is much closer than Tennessee.
I guess I have a lot to update on. Not too long ago, I was out on one of my ladies night occasions with my BFF. I had to bring Kody along this time because Kole was again doing something that I can't remember (i'm on a roll). After we had a little drink (jamba juice for Lauren, coffee-free pumpkin spice drink for me from starbucks- LOVE), we went to the park over by my old elementary school. Kody had a great time and I had fun watching her and we all had fun going down the slides that are 10x too small for adults.
I love how much static those slides produce on her hair! She thought it was hilarious too. She says "take a picture momma!" I already have my little one trained to love pics
Here is my BFF. I love her so much!! We have so much fun together!! I love that we can laugh about so many things from the past and they are still so gosh darn funny!! Being at this park reminded me of when we used to rollerblade over there and go to the church that is behind the park. We would do that almost every single day after school back in Jr. High. Good times!!
Here is a random picture of my little Kody and I. We were at my mother-in-law's and Kody pulled out these masks and wanted pictures taken! We're extra match match cause of the purple attire! I love her sweet smile! she warms my heart every day and I am grateful everyday that she is my child!!
Last saturday, My sister broke her foot at the end of her marching band competition. She turned around on her podium and she lost her balance and made the decision to jump. Well she happened to land on one of the wheels and broke her right foot. I had to go pick her and my mom up at the urgent care in awatukee. She was pretty bummed... considering she twisted her left ankle last year around this same time doing something... and yes, Homecoming is coming up this saturday. She had a brace on last year and now she'll have a fancy boot for this year! what are the odds?? So with this being her right foot, she can't drive right now. total bummer. She has to be in a wheelchair at school. Doc said to keep off of it for 3 weeks, then maybe crutch walk for the next 3-4 weeks.
The bruising that is now taking place. Taken 5 days after the injury. You can see how swollen her ankle still is. I think the bruising looks pretty cool.
