Allen’s 30th B-day party

Allen, Jason's BFF4EVR (lol), turned 30th recently, and we helped with his surprise birthday party. He surprised his wife 2 years ago (I think it was 2 years ago) with a surprise birthday party, so it was her turn to surprise him. She pulled it off with out a hitch. Kate should be an Event Planner instead of her current day job. She had custom t-shirts made for all of us, temporary tattoos, and sugar cookies with the same logo. The party was truly a success and glad to see Allen ring in the big 3-0 in true fashion. Excuse the 'excessive' (for lack of a better word) use of the middle finger in the pictures below. It is just something our mature husbands/friends can't seem to grow out of. Me being the pregnant lady at the party didn't get to enjoy the adult beverages, but got to sit back and laugh at everyone else. By the end of the party (10:30...as we were nonchalantly being kicked out of the restaurant), a cracker fight ensued. Actually, the cracker fight ensued long before that and finally a few of us tried but failed at getting the crackers away from the boys' table. We had an upstairs party room at a restaurant and for some reason the guys (Allen and his nephew) decided it would be funny to start throwing packages of crackers at people (all who were in are party) who were walking down/up the stairs (to and from the bathroom). Our poor waitress. I will say she was definitely tipped VERY well from the party of about 35-40 people. Yes, we had ONE waitress for the 40 of us, but she ROCKED and was ever so efficient. We finally got everyone out of the restaurant and the party continued at Allen/Kate's neighbor's house who literally has a bar in his backyard/barn, complete with shuffleboard, darts, a keg, Wii, and who knows what else. It has been awhile since I've been over there. Once again, me being the pregnant lady, I went home and sent Jason on his way with Allen/Kate. I think the party finally wrapped up around 3am when Jason sent me a text.

SURPRISE!!!!

Allen (B-day boy), Jose, and Jason

Me, Liz, Kate & Stacy – the last girls standing

J and I

The crackers….there were more at one point.

Whirlwind weeks...

Well, the past 2 weeks have been a whirlwind with us adjusting back into a school routine. Tristen's football is going well and he has his first scrimmage on Tuesday. Colby's baseball games start back up this coming week, as well. Jason and I are enjoying a well-needed 3 day weekend without the boys. I don't remember the last time we had 3 days off with absolutely nothing on our agenda. No baseball games, no appts, no parties, etc. We aren't quite sure what to do with ourselves.

Our trip to Broken Bow, OK was amazing and loved every last minute of it. My camera was forgotten and so I'm waiting on Kate & Stacy to email me their pictures so I can get some uploaded to here.

This past weekend we had my birthday party here at the house. We had lots of friends over and we had a blast. I'm sad to report that the keg was not floated! HA! This is a sign that we are officially old. Here are a few pics from the party. (Tristen was the photographer for the night...and well, I had to delete 90% of the pictures. He took more pictures of objects (flower pots, wine bottles, balloons, etc. than he did of actual people. I guess he is a 'details' type of kid. HA!)

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Fun with my lovely ladies....

Lindsay, one of my old college roommates and ADPi pledge sister, had her housewarming party this past weekend. Jason and I went and had a great time. It was good to see so many sorority sisters that I hadn't seen in awhile. The one thing I love about these girls is that even though we may only see each other a couple times a year or even longer spans than that, we pick up right off where we left off. We were all in our sorority back in the day *cough* 7-8 years ago *cough*. Kori, Lindsay, and I were all pledge sisters in the Fall '98 at Tech and those were some of the best years of my life. Several of the other girls there were a year or two older than us, but we all spent 3-4 years together and made lifelong friends.

ADPi Ladies

Jason happily tagged along....he loves my girls!
Me & Linds
Old roomies - 2911 21st Street in the LBK!
The girls with our gift to Lindsay
Jason...giving me the stink eye since I was snapping pictures. He was soooo sweet to volunteer to put together Lindsay's fire pit.

The girls with the completed fire pit!

Krista, Kori, Lindsay and Me

Love these girls and I'm so lucky to have such great friends!

Random Pictures......

Here is a random assortment of pictures that have been on my camera. Most of these are from our pseudo nephew's 1st b-day party.

Colby & Tristen @ Alex's 1st b-day party

Birthday boy Alex - hanging with John

Momma Kate and Alex

Momma Kate and Daddy Allen with no so happy Alex
Mom.....get me out of here!!!!!!!

This is what happens when the adults get bored and little ones are running around. The little ones are bribed with candy and then we take advantage of them. Well, I just took the pictures. We sent him on his way to find mommy and daddy, but all daddy could say was, 'No more M&M's!!!'
Cutie Pie, Luke




Colby - at his belated b-day party

Colby's baseball team waiting for their game to start.

Little # 4.....

St. Patty's Day 2009

St. Patty's Day 2009.....Block Party on Greenville....a somewhat annual tradition of ours.

Me & Kate

The hubster and I

John....trying to hold the porta potty door shut so Stacey couldn't get out.
(Yes, these people were charging $1 to use the porta potty as it was in their front yard. We were leaving and Stacey didn't want to wait in the FOREVER long line that was inside the actual block party.)
Uh oh...Kate's battery died.

Back at Kate & Allen's house, Jack decided to take a seat and join us. I LOVE this dog!

Out with friends - Allen's 29th B-day

Saturday night we went out with friends to celebrate Allen's 29th B-day. We went to eat on the patio at Ozona's and then headed to Stan's Bluenote on Greenville. Below are a few snapshots from the night.

... The hubby and I...
Kate & Me
Maturity at is prime! This was an 'end of the night' picture.

Recent Happenings...(w/pictures..finally!)

Tristen - right before his Christmas band concert
(note to self- the fireplace, does not make a pleasant background for pictures)

Colby - at his 5th grade Christmas party. They had to wrap a package with one hand tied to their friend. It was quite comical.

My girlfriends and I at Pete's Piano Bar. Jolee and Beth were in town from Midland to see the Cowboys last game at Texas stadium. I loved having them in town and wish they lived closer. Our Friday night was fun filled at Pete's. Saturday, we headed out for a power shopping trip. (Side note: the malls in West Texas pale in comparison to even Vista Ridge Mall.) I tried to take them to Stonebriar or the Galleria, but a) we didn't have time and b) they were pretty much spent after our 2 hour power shopping trip.

Jolee, Beth, Me & Haylee (my sister-in-law)

Since it is has been awhile....last, but not least, a recent picture of the hubby and me.

A night out...

2 weekends ago, we were finally able to get a night out without kids. Our friends Chris and Stacy had a joint bachelor/bachelorette party. They rented a party limo bus for us all to ride on. My intentions were to have a drink or two and be done for the night. Yeah, that didn't happen. It is very rare that I have more than 2 drinks when we go out. I'm not sure what got into me, but I had a blast! Unfortunately, we weren't able to make it to their wedding, as they were having a destination wedding in Mexico. Below are just a few pics from the evening. (We are slowly approaching the end of our bachelor/bachelorette parties. We only have a handful of friends left that aren't hitched yet.)