Cakes Ablaze and Shiny Rocks!

So I reached a little milestone in my life on March 24th. I turned 30. I dreaded it coming for a few years and I kept thinking it was because I was getting "old". Well, it isn't that. It is that it is an end of an era. As long as I was twenty - something I could goof off and screw up and people would just say "well, she IS only twenty (something)." Now I can't rely on that anymore, I have to GROW UP! Besides my twenties were a blast and so many wonderful things happened in that decade that I am not sure if I can really top it. I became a mother two wonderful times, I met and married my soul mate, I graduated from college, and I had a lot of tough times that built...character. I had a stiff upper lip the whole day, I never shed a tear - unlike my 25th birthday when I sat in a snow bank bawling my head off because I was SO OLD! I made it through with dignity and grace, I guess that comes from being older and wiser!


Now to the exciting part - my present from Kent. For almost four year now I have only had an engagement ring. We were always planning on getting a wedding band, but life happened and before we know it, we are four years with no wedding band. Anyway Kent got me the lower band for my birthday!!! It is so beautiful all put together, the picture does not do it justice. Ya, I'm spoiled, I will never deny that!!

At the Park

The water slide park was where we spent most of our time and we had a blast! Mia was a little unsure about the slides at first but once she went down them a few times she kept wanting to go. They had three of the smaller slides to go on and then they had two big slides that you slide down without tubes and one big one that you go down in either a double or a single tube.

Winter Vacation

Okay, so it has been a long time since I put in a new post, but the truth is, is nothing has really been going on. The winter is a slow time and we kind of get stuck into the winter rut. This year we decided to shake things up a bit and go on a mini winter vacation. We went to Arrowwood Resort just about 100 miles from home and spent some time at the indoor water slide park, antiquing, and of course eating out. These are pictures of us eating at Buggaboo Bay, our favorite place to eat when we are in Alexandria. While there, we had an appetizer of alligator. It was very different tasting. I thought it kind of tasted like goat and had a very rubbery texture - so, not my favorite thing I ever ate. Mia seemed to enjoy it as you can see in the picture! Kent had a burger that was so pack with garbage, we had to take a picture (nerds, I know!). He called it a heart attack on a bun. The other picture is the "kids" watching cartoons and eating breakfast in the hotel room before heading out for the day.