Turning 27!

Even though I had to work on my Birthday, I had a great day! It started the night before when Josh came home with roses, a box of Cadbury Eggs, and a Starbucks gift card (all my favorites!). Then, I was showered with love from friends and family all throughout the day via sweet texts and voice-mails. My manager even made the day special with a yummy cake and announcing my Birthday in our morning meeting. I prayed that everything would go smoothly at work that day so I could make it home on time to spend quality time with my family and even that wish came true!

My piece of amazing cake at work!

I was so tired when I got home, but my energy level instantly perked up when I saw all the flowers, balloons, gifts/treats left from neighborhood friends, and three happy faces excited to see me!! Austin ran into my arms and gave me a big Birthday hug and spent the rest of the night running around with all my balloons yelling, "birfday!" We ate Cafe Rio for dinner (Yayy for not having to cook!) and had mint chocolate chip ice cream for my Birthday dessert (my favorite)! It was the perfect meal! Thank you Josh, Mom, and Austin for making my day so special!

I had already received my birthday gift from Josh the week before when Art was here to babysit. I had the whole day to myself and spent it relaxing at Starbucks, shopping for a dress that actually fits me at this point in the pregnancy for Josh's work dinner, getting a facial and manicure, and I even snuck in a quick trip to the car wash to get my whole car interior detailed! I know that sounds weird but I get so tired of seeing Austin's mess in the back seat and yet I don't have the energy or ability to bend over and deep clean everything.

It was amazing to have so much freedom!!

Once the weekend rolled around, the party continued in Logandale with my family!

Off to Grandma's house! Austin was so excited!! He loves my parent's dogs and couldn't stop saying "Buddy, Buddy!"

We had a great time eating the yummy chicken fettuccine alfredo my Mom had made and sang Happy Birthday with strawberry shortcake! Austin helped me blow out the candles :).

The pretty table :).

Blowing out the candles!

The gang... Briana was taking the picture and Sadie came the next day after work.

My favorite part of spending the weekend in the country is letting Austin run around wild! He is totally in his element barefoot and digging in the dirt. He and Buddy were out there for hours digging side by side..... it was the cutest thing ever! Then Austin discovered he could throw the dirt in the air and Buddy would attempt to jump in the air and catch it! That little game went on for a good long time. They were out there together all day long and only came inside for food and water and then it was off to play again!

Grandpa even helped dig for a while :).

And then Austin discovered the wheelbarrow.....

We played Yahtzee later that night and had a great time! Austin loved sitting on Grandma's lap and rolling the dice for her :).

Suckers and game faces....

Can you guess who won? Grandma claims it's because she rubbed Austin's belly each time for good luck ;).

The next morning Sadie showed up! We all went out to breakfast at Sugar's and amazingly Austin did pretty good! The last time we attempted to go out to eat for breakfast was a miserable enough experience to make us swear off eating out completely. So this was a pleasant surprise.

Riding in the back seat with Auntie Sadie is always a good time :).

Eating lemons..... We did anything we could to keep him entertained!

We were quite entertained ourselves.... gotta love that face!

Next we came home and took advantage of the beautiful day by having a water balloon war! It was so much fun! Austin was just as fascinated with the process of filling up the balloons as he was throwing them and jumping on them to make them pop!

Aunt Sadie showing Austin how to pop the balloon in your hands. That was a big hit!

There are certain moments in life that I wish could be bottled up and kept forever. This was definitely one of them!

filling up the balloons with Momma.

Making Grandma our next target.....

The bigger I get with this baby, the less I want to be in photos.... but this was such a happy moment and I want to remember it!

We drove home later that day all worn out from playing so hard and in the best of moods from all that sunshine and fresh country air! I needed that weekend and realized it is something we need to do more often before it gets too dang hot to go outside! Thank you everyone for the fantastic birthday! 27 is already looking pretty awesome!