weekend madness

headed to braxton's first basketball game tonight.

going to norm and michelle's afterwards to book our CRUISE to the BAHAMAS!!!!

jared and i are getting away tomorrow night.

we are going to columbia to the stoney creek inn.

going swimming,

out to eat,

and shop!

have a great weekend everyone!

1000 Word Thursday!!

Here is a picture of my dad and Bronson. they were out biking yesterday. my dad and my boys have the closest bond you could ever ask for. he does so much with them, he will pick up bronson everyday after preschool, and sometimes he gets braylon too. he is getting him more and more. he also gets braxton every day after school. i hope that my boys remember every moment that they spend with my dad b/c someday they will be the greatest memories!

our new purchase

last year jared and i talked about getting a new tv. but then kept putting it off. well when we seen how awesome vance and andrea's was, it made us want to go ahead and do it. we were going to get one, we weren't, were, weren't.... but now we have it! our old tv wasn't going to make the dtv transition and one speaker was completley blown, so here is our new purchase! we are still waiting on our surround sound, which should be in by thursday or friday! i am super excited about it:) the tv has an awesome picture and i can't believe the huge difference between HD and Normal! we still have a lot of learning to do before we ever master it. so andrea, you will be getting lots of questions about the DVR and stuff. i am excited to be able to pause shows and tape shows when we are not home.

thanks

i don't want to leave anyone out so i am thanking you ALL for all that you did to help my party be a hit! you know who you are...... andrea, amanda, heather, amee, michelle, jenn and whoever else was involved! i am a lucky person! you guys are all great friends and cousins:) i love you all!

SURPRISE!!

and that i was!

if you can't read what that cakes says this is what it says: CURVY, PURDY and TURNIN 30!

saturday night andrea threw me a surprise 30th birthday party. all along i thought it was suppose to be vance's 30th birthday party. so you can imagine my surprise when all of my family showed up! and i even had to help decorate my own party:)

andrea did a great job planning and getting me there. she knew i would know something was up if she didn't have me help her ahead of time. so i got there at 5:00 and helped a little bit. at 6:30 she had me go downstairs and help her move some trim..... well jared was suppose to get everyone from outside to inside. but somehow he didn't. so once i was back upstairs they had bronson tell me he needed to show me something downstairs. so i go down there and he says "daddy wanted me to show you something but i don't know what he wants me to show you". hmmmm, this is when i got really suspicious! so as i went back upstairs there was alllll these people there, FOR ME!! i think counting kids and all, there were 49 people there! wow, all just for me! so thank you to everyone that helped andrea pull this one off! i am a very inquisitive person, so to pull it off was a lot of work:) there was lots of good food, lots of friends and family and presents:)

andrea~ thank you from the bottom of my heart! you don't have any idea how much that meant to me! you did an awesome job and i know that it was really tough since how i asked lots of questions:) so thank you for being the best friend anyone could ask for!

Ramon Noodle Salad

1 head of BOK Cabbage (i use romaine lettuce)
1 bunch of green onions
Use any other salad ingredient you want to. I always just use green onions.

Brown in 1/4 cup oleo: 2 pkgs of ramon noodles, crushed and 1 pkg of slivered almonds.

Dressing:
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c oil
2 T soy sauce
1/4 c white vinegar.
Boil for one minute. Let cool before putting on salad.

I usually do the ramon noodles and almonds and the dressing before hand and put in separate containers until right before we eat the salad. If you put the dressing on too soon the noodles and almonds will get soggy. They say you can mix the seasoning packages from the noodles with the salad, but I don't.

My day

well i feel like my big "30" birthday is finally here. we have been celebrating off and on for a week now! last night my mom and dad got me a trifle bowl and a digital scale. today dolores got me a candle and a picture album AND made me some awesome cookies, fruit pizza and a blt dip. my mom and dad sent me some beautiful purple flowers and my in laws sent me the beautiful roses and a canle. check out the color of the one rose.... isn't it different?!!

THEN......... my friend michelle came in to my office and said my van looked pretty. i said "my van?". and this is what i found!! i am not sure who the culprit is, but they did get me!!!

so all in all it has been a great day! tonight i am going out to eat with andrea (and colby and vance too, maybe), then we are headed to the woman's retreat at the church. tomorrow night is vance's party. another full weekend! so have a great weekend everyone!

thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday!