Birthdays!

Well the 26th of March I celebrated the big 3-0 birthday! It was a fabulous day on Thursday and Matt took the day off to be with me. My good friend Ora watched Jameson and he was thrilled to get to play with Sara and the other Averett kiddos. Matt and I went to Bread Company for breakfast and then to an early movie. It was so relaxing. On Thursday night we went to Jeff and Theresa's (Matt's parents) for my birthday dinner. It was a my favorite meal complete with Shrimp Alfredo and Key Lime Pies. Yummy!!! On Friday night we had a Family Movie Night. The plan was to rent Bolt, but it was totally sold out so we settled on Beverly Hills Chihuahua. It was a very cute movie and we all enjoyed that. Jaden also opened his gifts from us, which he was thrilled about.

On Saturday we traveled over to Missouri to spend the day with my family. My mom had set up a wonderful luncheon at Miss Aimee B's Tea House in Old St. Charles. It was such good food and awesome friends that joined us. That evening we grilled out for Jaden's birthday. Uncle Jim prepared some awesome food and we topped the evening off with an Ice Cream cake that was to die for!

Finally, Sunday the 29th came and this is Jaden's actual birthday! We went to church this morning and had a meal with our church family. Then we went and watched Jakob and Alysha get baptized which was totally a wonderful moment. Back to Nana and Papaw's house to have Jaden's birthday dinner complete with Hamburgers/Hotdogs, Mac n' Cheese, Watergate Salad and Ice Cream Sunday's. This was all Jaden's planning!!! It was a very fun weekend of celebration. Jaden is thrilled to be 7 and I am handling my new number 30!!! Thank you to everyone for all the Birthday Wishes. It has been a great weekend.

I've been tagged

Stop what you are doing right now and take a picture of yourself. No prep work allowed. You must take the picture exactly as you are right now...you may not go put on makeup or brush your hair or change your clothes. After you are done tag 5 more people. Esther, Michelle, Neri, Tammy, Betsy and anyone else who would like to play along you are tagged!!!

This is me...ready to go to sleep!

Stellan needs our prayers

Pray for Stellan

I am asking that anyone who reads my blog to get on their knees in prayer for this precious little baby boy, Stellan. You can click on the button (My Charming Kids) and get all the updates, but basically Stellan was diagnosed with SVT in utero and seemed to be completely healed. 4 months have gone by and he is now in the hospital fighting for his life. I have been following this family's blog for over a year now and feel like I know them personally. Please pray for Stellan and his family. We know that the Lord is hearing our prayers and will answer them according to his will.

Bittersweet Celebration

Well, Jaden doesn't actually turn 7 until Sunday the 29th of March, but we sort of sped up the party b/c his best friend is moving. I had to break the news to Jaden last week that Grayson's family was moving back to Springfield, IL after only being here since August. His family had lived in Springfield for 10 years and just didn't adjust well here and saw an opportunity to move back "home" and jumped on it. Jaden, however, was heartbroken!!! He had decided quite a while back that instead of having a traditional birthday party he would rather do something fun with just Grayson. So we picked Grayson up on Saturday afternoon and headed to the theater to see Race to Witch Mountain. After the movie, they were able to play games before we left which was a real treat because that rarely happens. After that they were anxious to get to our house for play time!!! They broke out their Nintendo DS' and played games, jumped on the trampoline, built some really awesome Lego Star Wars ships, and just all around enjoyed each others company. Grayson slept over and they camped out in the living room. The boys wanted to savor every last moment so Grayson joined us for church on Sunday morning and then we met up with his family for lunch before they headed out of town!!! It was sad to say goodbye, but they are only a couple hours away so we plan to get the boys together again soon.

Monkey Joe's

We met our cousins, Kate and Kyle for a fun evening at Monkey Joe's. The kids always have a blast when we get them together, which is not nearly often enough. We only live about 15 minutes away from each other, but life gets in the way and we rarely see them. Mary and I are hoping to change that! It was fun catching up and seeing the kids run and play together. Jameson had a hard time because he was struggling to keep up with the big kids. It's amazing what a difference a year makes. Kyle turned 3 in October and he was doing a great job getting around. Kate was very helpful with Jameson and was guiding him around so he felt included too. Thanks for the fun time guys!

Happy St. Patrick's Day