October Birthdays

We celebrated 3 birthdays in October. Carla turned 15 on the 8th. One more year of people being safe on the roads and sidewalks! ;)

David turned 26 on the 19th. Not sure what we did for that...maybe sent something in the mail, send a text saying Happy Birthday. No pictures of this one. :)

Mom turned 48 on the 30th. Mom and Dad went out to dinner that night, so Carla and I went to the grocery store and bought an ice cream cake and a balloon. We also bought this cute birthday hat for her to wear. :)

We used these leftover pieces of crepe paper from another birthday and taped them to the light over the table.

I found a kid's Happy Birthday song on a cd we have, so we put that on repeat and really loud. When Mom walked in, Carla and I sang along with song. Very loudly and just a little off tune :)

As another little surprise for Mom, I got David on Skype so she/we could talk to him.

He even got to help us sing!

Valentine's Day & VT

For Valentine's Day, Dad picked up a heart shaped Carvel cake. Mom loves to peek so we had Carla cover her eyes when Dad brought it out :)

The weekend of February 28th, we went up to VT to visit our Uncle & Aunt. Friday night, their son and his wife and daughters came over for dinner.

Can't forget the goofy one :)

Mom's Birthday

Just a few pictures from Mom's birthday.

I stopped at Carvel on my way home and picked up a cake.

We had to constrain Mom cause she kept peeking

Singing away!

:)

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my Mom's birthday! We won't mention her age (mostly cause I don't remember how old she is!) Hope you have an awesome day!

:)

Mothers Day and Carla's Chorus Concert

Since David and I were in IL for Mother's Day, we decided to order flowers to be delivered for Mom. The price of delivery for flowers is outrageous! Especially on Mothers Day! We had them delivered on Saturday instead of Sunday.

It wasn't exactly what the picture showed on the website, but it still looked nice

Evan is taking a floral design class in school and came home with this on Friday

Carla's chorus concert was May 21st

Vocal Ensemble

8th grader playing the song that won the piano competition

The whole chorus

The chorus group

Happy 25th!

Today marks the day that my parents have been married for 25 years!

Dad got Mom 25 red roses

Here they are 25 years ago! Aren't they cute? :)

Happy 25th Anniversary Mom & Dad!

Love, Me :)

Andy, Mom, & Tom

In 2007, my brother had gotten t-shirts at the 4-Town Fair for my two cousins that said:

"If you think I'm cute you should see my Aunt Lynne"

Shortly after that, my Uncle and Aunt had a tractor pull at their house for the younger boys. Andy and Tom changed into them part way through the day. After Andy put the shirt on, he went on the tractor and pulled towards us.

Pretty much everyone knew about it except my Mom. 

As Andy was coming towards us, my Mom could see the part of the shirt that says "If you think I"m cute". She said to me, "I have to see what the rest of Andy's shirt says." 

And now my Mom will type the next part :)

As Andy got closer I could see that the rest said  "you should see my Aunt Lynne". I couldn't believe it. But the thing is everyone else knew about these t-shirts except me. So they were all watching me to see my reaction.

Now I will take over the typing again :)

A couple weekends ago, my other brother had the brothers over for a wiener roast. Andy and Tom came and they had the shirts on. While we were at the table getting our toppings for our hot dogs  Andy unbuttoned is outer shirt a little so you could see the shirt. Once again Mom was surprised! I think we were all surprised that they still fit!

 2007

2012

Tom and Andy grew a little bit :)