Best Friends

Last Friday Ella invited her best friend Dakota to the park. She is so lucky to have such a great best friend. We love Dakota Lynn!

Here they are a year ago... Best Friends Forever or at least till they have a choice of it all!

30-1

A couple days after my birthday is Mark's special day. (Only one more year to the BIG 30!)  I love having our birthdays so close, it makes the party last even longer! On Thursday, we went to a very busy Red Robin with Mark's family to celebrate not only Mark's birthday but his brother Kyle's too. They have the same birthday.

Mark's Uncle and Mom. Can you see the family resemblance??

  The girls-me, Ella and Megan

 Kyle just left before the camera came out:(

Mark's Dad, Joyce, Keven and Miranda

 

On his actual birthday, Mark spent the entire day working in the yard. We are in the huge process of  redoing the entire backyard. Yay!!

That night we had a little party with our friends and family.

Check out that concentration on those cupcakes.

Give me that!

Yummmmy!

Ella is going to be so let down next week when we don't have a birthday to celebrate and cake and ice-cream to eat.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

30+1

Darn it, it happened again. My birthday came and I had to turn another year older. As of right now, I'm 3 years older then my husband... He had to remind me of that this morning.
He has his turn on Saturday!

I got the party started early on Friday with a dinner date with some of my favorite ladies...

Katie and Sara came over to be my chauffeur and we met Maria.
Thanks GGs for a fun little celebration
and the best lobster bisque ever!

On my actual birthday, we went to the new Red Lobster in town. 

All I have to say is that I checked that off my list,
I won't be back anytime soon.

We did get seated in the "Captain's Room".

That was great because Ella could run around the table 

and not get into too much trouble.

This is all I could do to keep Ella Boo still.

Here are my lovely parents, can you believe their baby is 31??

Dave P and Debra Kay-
Thank you for the beautiful hanging basket!

Miss Sara was the photographer
and I didn't get any pics of her at dinner.

 

It's going to be hard to top my 30th year

with Mark, Ella and our new house..

but I'm excited to see what 31 brings.

Oh, one other exciting thing....  

No longer will you see this

We said goodbye to the beloved Binky.

She only is allowed to use it at naptime and bedtime. 

She has done great, especially for a girl who LOVED her Binky!

(Notice how she is hoarding another binky in this photo)

We are so proud of our Boo!

Rock On!

Our Little Rock Star at the last Man Room Party!

Another Photo Overload..

I've been driving past this little field of daisies at our park  for weeks, thinking that it would make a great photo spot.

Finally, we got a sunny day and walked down to the park.
Here are my favorites. I want to make this daisy
photo shoot a yearly tradition.