I forgot to post these...in SEPTEMBER!!

Well, I always thought I would get around to posting these pictures and writing about my AWESOME birthday weekend (in September), but here it is three months later and I haven't, so I thought I might as well share the pictures and a little background on them. I know one of them Kristi has been waiting to see for a long time! It seems silly to talk about my birthday now since it was so long ago, but it really was the best birthday I have had in a really long time. Scott and Kristi took extra effort to make sure it was extra special...even if we did have to dodge a few tornadoes on Friday night! After the tornadoes cleared we all celebrated and I would have been plenty happy if it all stopped there! When we said goodbye Friday night Kristi told me they were headed to Warrensburg the next morning which is totally normal since they were only home like two weekends this whole summer. So you can imagine the look on my face when I walked down the stairs Saturday morning getting ready to go to Panera and run some errands with Scott and the girls when I saw Kristi standing on my front porch. They had stayed in town and arranged a fun morning for me including breakfast at Panera (my favorite) and a surprise pedicure! It was great! I am so lucky to have Scott and Kristi in my life!

Kristi and I have joked ever since that even though we would like to keep pedicures as part of our birthday traditions (we went for her birthday in June too), we would like to do away with the tornadoes since we just barely got home from her celebration in time for the sirens to go off. What is the deal with tornadoes on our birthdays? TOES - TORNADOES = PERFECT BIRTHDAY!

So, here is the background on these pics. We had planned on taking the girls somewhere fun to celebrate on Friday night, but the tornadoes put a kink in our plans and we ended up at the mall after dinner. Our ever cautious and timid Hadley surprised us and wanted to try the new trampolines in the mall, while Alyson the always outgoing one wanted nothing to do with them. Go figure! We let Hadley try it and figured she would want off after the first few jumps...much to our surprise that was not the case at all! She LOVED it and after her turn was over asked to do it again! I guess I should have gone since it was my birthday, but it was so fun watching her!

Ready to go!

Listening to instructions!
And she's off...

higher...

higher...

coming down...

"Mommy, Daddy...can I go again!!!!!"

Here is the picture Kristi has been waiting for. The weekend after my birthday we had Alyson over to spend the night and I thought it would be fun for the girls to sleep in a tent. They loved it and stayed in there all night!

We just set it up on the bed in our guest bedroom with the TV in clear view out the "front door"! They had so much fun watching movies, eating popcorn/candy and of course sleeping in the tent! Actually, Hadley had so much fun she slept there for the next week or so!