It's Your Day!

Happy 23rd birthday Mike!  I'm so thankful to have you in my life.  I love you more and more every day!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my mom's birthday! She's now...oh, wait you're not supposed to tell a woman's age! ;) We were able to celebrate with the whole family on Sunday. She was pretty excited, can you tell?

Happy birthday Mom! I love you!

Happy Birthday Mike!

Happy birthday to my husband! I'm so blessed to have you in my life! This past year has been a whirlwind, but I wouldn't change a single moment of it! We've experienced many changes, most notibly you going from my boyfriend, to fiance, to husband!
We've completely remodeled a house and made it our own.
We've been busy and every moment of it has made me fall more in love with you and realize how blessed I am!

I love your serious side!

I love your romantic side!

I love your goofy side!

And I love the "deal-with-it-when-my-wife-takes-pictures-of-our-feet" side!

I LOVE YOU!

Mom's Birthday

The holidays have been extremely busy and I've been slacking on posting. My goal is to catch up in the next couple weeks so that I can get back to posting as usual...let the catch-up begin!

December 1st was Mom's birthday. Here are some pictures from the day:

Mom with her birthday cake
Walking into her room and seeing her birthday present from Mike and I
This is what she saw. Philippians 4:13 is Mom's favorite Bible verse and she has been looking for a nice picture with that verse for a long time. She hasn't found one, so I decided to have one made for her. The lady who I got my word block from custom made this window for me!

We also celebrated Mike's birthday because his was on Thanksgiving and my Mom was gone. He was excited to open up "Flywheel"!

The Big 5-0!!!

Last Tuesday was my Dad's 50th birthday! Mike and I fixed a steak and potato dinner and a birthday cake.

We decided to get Dad a new grill for his birthday. He wasn't expecting it at all, and you can see the surprise on his face!
Of course, the guys had to open it up and check out the goods! Happy 50th birthday Dad!

Pictures

Here are some pictures from yesterday




This is the cake that Jeremy, Alyx, and I made








And this is the cake that my mom made for me. Funny thing was that both cakes were "funfetti", my favorite.






Gift time! I just opened the newest CD from Thousand Foot Krutch.








Horrible picture, but oh well. I'm very excited with the Spanish thing. I went straight up to my room to try it out. It's a full immersion Spanish course and it's easy to use and I already have learned a lot!

On this date in 1988....

...another baby entered the world. That baby was me... Melissa Jane. At the time we lived in New Mexico, as my parents were missionaries on an Indian Reservation. The day was very similar to today. Right now it is snowing like crazy. When I was born, my parents had to drive through the snow up the mountains to the hospital! But I arrived safely, at 4:14 in the morning.
This morning, I received breakfast in bed. It's a tradition we've done for as long as I can remember. We get to choose the meals for the day. So I had cinnamon rolls for breakfast. I expected the Pillsbury ones, but my mom made them!!! Yummy... Then I went out with my friends Alyx and Jeremy, we went to Panera Bread. Then back to Jeremy's house where we baked a cake. We got a call that a friend was stuck in the median by BK, so we drove down there, but she was stuck pretty good, we needed a tow truck. Now I'm home, supposedly cleaning my room, but actually checking blogs. :) For supper we will have Chicken and Rice casserole and yeast rolls. Alecia is coming over after dinner, and we'll probably watch a movie (hmm....Remember the Titans?) and hang out for a while. I'll try to update later with some pictures.

What a weekend!

Wow! What a weekend!
My mom turned 50 on Saturday. Unknown to her, her friend and I had been planning a surprise party for her since we had my graduation open house last June!
On Friday night, the doorbell rang, and I told mom to get the door. She did, and there was her mom, dad, sister, nephew, and niece. She was so surprised! Then half an hour later, the bell rang again. I told her it was for her, and there was her brother, sister-in-law, and two nephews! She had no clue that they were coming down from Canada for the weekend! And she thought that was the whole surprise, little did she know....


Saturday morning, we had a big breakfast of homemade cinnamon rolls and cheesy eggs. Then I went to church for the craft sale. I had to tell a few little white lies to cover up for the party. I told mom that I had to work at 1:30. So at 1:15, I left for "work".





Instead, I went to her friend's house. I had been there for a while on Friday to prepare food, so most of it was ready. We had to make a few things and decorate on Saturday afternoon. Everyone arrived at Tracy's around 6:15. We all hid in the dining room/kitchen area.




Mom and Dad showed up at 6:45, just to pickup a fondue pot on the way out to dinner, or so Mom thought! So Tracy invited her in for a minute and they came into the living room. Mom looked into the dining room and there were about 25 people in there who shouted "Surprise!" The look on her face was absolutely priceless!!!!





Some of the food! There was a ton, and it was all amazing!!!










Opening gifts....


















Mom and Tracy