Out For A Cruise

Some days you just want to go cruisin'.  

And today was one of those days.  

It was a top down and let your hair blow in the wind type of day.

Too Cute Tuesday

Too cute Tuesday... at least this Tuesday we'll call it that.

Thirty!

This Guy.

Yep this guy.

It's his birthday.

Today.

He's Thirty.

The big 3-0!

It's a big one.

A friend said it best.

It's the new 21.

The time to get stuff done.

To become accomplished.

But what is being accomplished?

To me Steve already is.

He has figured out at a young age how to keep his priorities right.

He's a Godly man and growing stronger every single day.

He might quite possibly be the best husband a wife could ask for.

And I know for certain that these two munchkins have the best daddy in the world.

He's a loyal friend, a leader, a hard worker, provides more than enough for his family financially,

 and just quite simply rocks at life.

So, It's okay Steven...

...be proud.

B/c by the age of 30, 

you have figured out  and accomplished more than most people do in a life time.  

Know that we feel beyond blessed to have you as our cornerstone.

Happy birthday.

From your proud family.

Whoa... A Frog!

Rylee was with her cousins a couple weekends ago and they found a tree frog one morning and went on a hunt the rest of the weekend to find more. They were all so excited.  Forget the beach and jet ski... forget the boat or even the 4-wheeler...

It's frog time!

So when Rylee found her very own frog after nap time yesterday, she was beyond ecstatic. 

We had to show it off.

Only problem was that she left the lid off so we just told her he needed to go sleep with his mommy and daddy.  And she was okay with that.

Fourth of July Highlight

On a normal day after a holiday weekend, I usually put some tubing adventure pictures up like this...

  Or like this...

 But not this time. It wasn't my highlight.

My highlight was this.

A tubing we used to make fun of.  But now that I'm old... It's my kind of tubing.  

I could actually care less about tubing but it's the experience I had with my sisters.  

I don't think I've ever laughed so hard for so long in my life.  

In fact, I bust out every time I look at these pictures.  Actually laugh out loud.  I mean look at our faces. 

 And not just all of our faces but my older sister's face.  

The one on the left side of the photo.

You would have though we were on the Wild Thing at Valleyfair with no seatbelts!

 Between her reactions.

Her death grip.

Her bloody murder screams.

You might have thought we were in a horror film.

But to her defense she did just have a baby.

3 weeks ago!

Which made it all the more hilarious.

The things that were coming out of her mouth...

priceless.

And they can't be repeated.

In fact, I think we had to take second glances...

"What?!!"

But our laughter was usually short lived and interrupted by one her of,

"DAADDDDD!"

"THIS IS WAY TOO FAST!!!"

"AHHHH.... STOP!!!"

Meanwhile, he's just laughing and scheming out his next turn to try and throw us off.

Which he nearly succeeded but never did.

Thanks for the memories, laughs and extremely effective ab workout to the best friends a girl could ask for.