happy 25th and a HALF birthday TO ME!!!

this past weekend my MIL suprised me (yea, suprise me!?!?!? i know.) with a 25th and a half birthday party. back in my febuary (my actual birth month) we were sick and busy and everything else, so my birthday celebration kinda got postponed and postponed again. as a joke i decided i just wanted a 25th and a half birthday. i actually got a kinda sorta 25th birthday party in early march, but the idea of having a half birthday was pretty amusing to myself and my MIL too apparently because she assembled the family for a night of celebrating my 25-1/2 years on this planted. here are the photos from the night.

every party in our family has ballons. cupcake ballons for the win!!!

our little miss in her party dress. so cute. 

i had made my snoup (yes, i said snoup. not soup.) for husband's return to these united states and we ended up eating together. yummy.

BIL and one of his boys, strider. yes, like the lord of the rings. dorks. 

the boogerbear and our little lundon. the photo after this one is of the boogerbear making a growl like snarl and lundon SCREAMING his little head off. i mean, even in the photo, you can hear his squeal. it may show up for a WW one of these days...

hi. 

more little miss and an approving great grandma by her side. 

auntie KT's buddy Gus. nice guy. probably thinks i'm a loone though. in my defense, i was a little on the tipsy, thus chatty side. oops. 

a bubble bee cake!!!! look at that little bee's smile. perfection. 

whats better than a happy 25th and a half birthday party you ask? getting gifts for turning 25 and a half!!! among the very sweet gifts i received, i got this book. very cute. i think the primary reason i got it though was because my MIL wants me to make her cupcakes that look like penguins. so do i....

happy kinda sorta 25th birthday!

so, this past sunday my MIL and crew gave me a kinda sorta 25th bday party. perfect! i was hoping for a 25 & 1/2 bday party, but, who knows, august 18th hasnt looped around yet. anywho, you should have seen the banner this woman put up in her house! it was like a billion sheets of paper printed via printmaster circa 1962. here, look!



taking the time to assemble that banner was enough to tell me that my family loves me...

oh, and that they're a little kookie...

nathan and logan...

...were born this morning at 7:44am(nathan) and 7:47am(logan) the old fashioned way weighing in at 4lb14oz(nathan) and 4lb13oz(logan). there were no complications and erican had a short, (relatively) easy labor and all parties involved are doing great!

looks like i'll be heading to houston this sunday. time for hectic holly to kick in.

and now i will not be able to sleep tonight...

its 12:30am and i just got the call that erican has been having contractions for the past few hours and they're on their way to the hospital. i didnt know how i would feel when she hit this point, but now i know. I AM SO EXCITED! her husband is going to call me after they get her checked and know where she's at in the birthing process. i hope everytihng goes well. birthing twins vaginally is kinda rare from what i've read. it happens and her boys are lined up and ready to go according to her last sonogram, but there is still that looming possibility of a c-section (like with all pregnancies, but a little more thanks to babyX2.) i know a c-section is by no means the end of the world. i've had friends who had a c-section and they bounced right back. on the other hand, i've had friends who took over a month to get back to relative normality. i'm not really sure that erican is prepared for a c-section, which (i would think) would suck if faced she was faced with an emergency c-section NOW. regardless, i know they're ready to meet their babies by hook or scalpel!!! i hope all goes well and by this time tomorrow (or SOONER!!!) we have a couple new rascals to look after.

tonight was a good night.

so, i'm sitting up in bed, catching up on some blogs and the husband (who was dead asleep 3seconds before. snoring and all.) rolls over, looks at me and says "i love you" in probally the sweetest tone i've ever heard out of him. its not that we rarely tell one another that we love each other, infact i make it a point to tell him and the boogerbear that i love them as often as possible. it is uncommon for him to A) wake up in the middle of the night unless the boogerbear cries B) to be coherent if he speaks immediately after waking C) to wake up to tell me that he loves me.

it went back to sleep very shortly after this incident, but it was none the less sweet.

tonight was a good night.

we're back!

super busy getting life back to normal. i'll post more later tonight. for now i want to share a story (i wrote it in an email last night, so its mostly copy and paste) about a local chocolater, Richard Donnelly.


So, while i was out running errands [yesterday], the hubby suggested I do a package for his friend Sage that is off in basic training in OK. That's right up my alley and I know Sage is homesick. So I think about what I know about Sage. He likes good food. Too hard to ship Moreno's burritos. [a local taqueria we all love] He likes good wine. I'm guessing that's not allowed. CHOCOLATE! Definitely a care package necessity. So I head over to Donnelly's of course. [its the best in santa cruz for sure!] Anywho, so I go in and Richard Donnelly is there himself doing what it is he does [makes chocolaets, duh!] and asks what he can do for me.I tell him what I'm looking for. He asks if I want the pretty packaged chocolate or the bark one. I tell him whatever is easier to ship. He askswhere it's going and I tell him to sage who's doing time in basic. He nods. So he packs up this box with out asking me how much I want. Ties a bow on it and gets some ice packs out of his freezer. He then puts all of the above in a bag and tells me put my wallet away, to ship it Monday and to thank sage for what he's doing for our country. OMG! Hownice is that! I about cried as I left the building. Such a random actof kindness. That man has earned some major points in my book today. [yesterday]

xxoo!