conner's birthday party 4.7

Second party of the weekend, ya'll! Even though Conner turned 16 three weeks ago, Kaley and I and a couple others pressured him into having a 16th birthday party. It didn't work out until now, but it was so much fun! 
  

The volleyball net was out and it was ON. I watched because I had already been hit in the head with a ball that day.



Kaley sat with me on the bleachers and I was totally envy of her cowboy boots.

Totally envy worthy...so prettyyy.

Father and son.

I have some of the most good-looking friends, ya'll. And I'm not just talking about the girls...my guy friends are pretty dang handsome. They are a catch. Evidence below...

 

Erika! And Jack doing whatever in the background.

Erika and Grace BFFs.

Kaley.

Abbey and Bekah...sistahs!

Rachieee!

Grace.

It's ok to be jealous of my beatiful friends.


So many things about this picture...Dylan texting. Whatever Jack's doing. OK, only two things.



FUD! Photo by Grace.

Cutie! Photo by Grace.

Jack is a camera stealer...and a photo bomber from the above pictures. All photos by Grace...the camera stealing runs in the family ;)

Niceee.

We all piled around the iPod at one point wanting to choose the music.

Erika and Bekah. BFFs as well.

Sister secrets.

Abbey's Nikon was by her side as well!

The wicked knife contradicts the pink iPod. It's Hannah's BTW.

Quick break for presents!

After presents and cake we just hung around and enjoyed each others company until the end. Oh and compared purity rings...Hannah got to hold them all and I had to get a picture of the 10 rings.

Sam's back and Rachel.

The dude with glasses and the girl with the flower in her hair.

Conner brought his guitar and I love to hear him play and sing. He's great at it, ya'll. Serious talent right there.

 

Funny story: I look up from behind the bleachers and Jack & Clark have become best buds and were bird calling. In the Landmark gym. Hilarious. And then what Jack's looking at is Clark's handiwork...he got a ball stuck in the beam of the ceiling.

Feet.

We ended the night playing Ninja and watching the men be studs and right to carry more chairs than teh previous (we helped Conner set up for breakfast the next morning.

Thanks for inviting us Conner...I hope you felt loved by all who came!

happy birthday mama!

In honor of Mama's fifieth birthday, we threw a suprise party at the Coffee Shack. We invited people that have been Mama's friends for a looong time and new friends...all people that inpacted her life thus far. Some family came out too and it was just a great time of fellowship and caffiene because DUH it was at a coffee shop. Consumption of caffiene is mandatory.
We dove into the cake as soon as we all sang Happy Birthday and thanked everyone for coming out and helping us pull this off.

And the story behind the cake: Mama has walked around for the past two years saying "I'm almost 50 you guys...do this for me!" It got annoying after about the first year, and then we turned it into a joke on her cake. Kudos to Dad for thinking of that one!

Singing Happy Birthday.

The cake was the only thing that we had "scheduled", so we enjoyed each other's company for the next three hours. Lots of laughing and sharing stories of how long people knew each other.


Grandma & Grandaddy enjoyed meeting all of Mom's friends, I think...so glad they were able to come!



Miss Helen and Mama

Miss Helen's camera and Mama's water...both things that never leave their side.

The Furloughs, Caleb, and Andrew tagged along and they had a GREAT time.

Cards and presents...Mama is loved!

More socializing...

Mr. Billy (old family friend) and his precious cup of coffee.

Kaley and Miss Helen.

Mr. Billy

Miss Danielle and Mr. Lennie.

Going over plans for the new cottage.



Lots of laughter! Aunt Karen left and Miss Danielle & Furlough Five right.


One of the cool things about the Coffee Shack is that you don't have to pay anything to reserve the room for whatever you want...they just go on the fact that they'll get a lot of money for food and coffee. And boy did they ever...there was TONS of coffee cups sitting around.



Mama had a blast (as did we ALL) and thanks to everyone that came out and celebrate with us!