The month of birthdays

A couple weeks ago, my mom celebrated her birthday. We decided to do a fun "girls night in" this year at Michelle's house. We planned a light dinner, cake (of course), a craft and general hanging out. There were about 15 people there and we had a great time. We made a lemon sugar scrub from Pinterest (if you had any doubt) and it turned out really cute!)

I made a 4 layer chocolate cake with peanut butter icing, mostly because I thought the 2 layer cake looked too skinny. Soooo I made another cake and made it super high. Mmmm. 

Mom and her daughters and DIL

(Brad's birthday was in here too but I don't have any pics--whoops!! We celebrated at their house with burgers, wings, cake and homemade ice cream!)

This year was also my dad's 60th birthday. He didn't want anything big so we did a steak and seafood night at our house. We had steaks, grilled garlic and lemon shrimp, bacon wrapped scallops, and a baked potato bar. 

We opted for a birthday "pie" because we are all caked out from the previous birthdays! HA! 

After dinner we went to the driving range. Since my dad loves to golf, we thought this was a great option! Those poor other people at the driving range who were trying to focus and practice with 5 little kids running around. :)

Well, that summarizes the April birthdays, but we don't get too much down time. Carter's is just next week! :) :) 

Easter 2016

Well, I seemed to have forgotten to blog for a very long time. Let's chat Easter, shall we? You know, since it's almost summer. :) 

We had a fun small group Easter brunch this year which was super fun. Courtney made these adorable bunny pancakes for the kids, we ate too much food, the kids played games and we, of course, had an Easter egg hunt! 

Church was SO good on Easter Sunday too! After church, we came back to the house for a bit with my parents and Bradley (Ashley was working) before we headed to Haucks. The kids opened their Easter baskets. 

At Annette and Randy's -- pictures before lunch. Always a hit with the kids (sarcasm). :) 

Family pic -- not the best but we'll take it! 

Later in the afternoon, the kids got their Easter baskets from Gramma and Pa. To say there was mass excitement (and major chaos) is an understatement. 

We had a lot of fun and the kids hunted something like 200 eggs -- it was pretty crazy. We rounded out the day with rousing games like Password, Pictionary, etc. A good day!!