Happy 25 Buttons

Buttons turned 25 years old on May 21st! I hope she had the best day ever.

We had her Birthday Dinner on Wednesday a few days before. Here she is with the love of her life, Joe.

Rodgie and I with little Sarah Poo.

The rest of the gang.
Us girls having our "girl time" while the boys were out playing basketball.

Sarah was listening so intently to Ashley reading to her. She really is such a doll. Look at those eyes. I'm pretty sure Sar was Chelsea's best Birthday gift.

My first gift to Buttons. A Gifty Card to her favorite store, Target. Notice the "Button."

And my second gift. Thanks to Angela who saw this idea on a painting and I incorporated it into my own crafty work. I'm very pleased with the results.

Don't ask me when or why or how we started calling each other Buttons and Butts. No certain name is set on who is called what, we use both names and have for many many years and it still sticks today.

She says it was one of her most favorite gifts. That makes a sister proud:)

On Chels' actual Bday we went to lunch at Cafe Rio. Later she got a break from Sarah, thanks to my mom, and went out with Joe.

I hope you had a great day! I love you.

Birthday's All Around

Isaac's Birthday was Monday May 17th. He celebrated with a Birthday Party at South Davis Rec Center on Saturday. He had lots of family and friends to help celebrate. He is such a sweet boy. He turned the big 8 years old!

Ashley (she ran a 1/2 marathon that morning! Yay to her!), Lindsey, My Mother, Chels, Myself, and Little Sar Sar. Sarah is even smiling so cutely in the picture.
The Birthday Boy with his friends!

May 19th is Jamie's Birthday! Rodger and I had the idea to do a little activity with her this year. We took her to The Gateway to her favorite store, Justice, where she picked out an outfit.

She got these cute golfer shorts with a light blue shirt to match. Adorable pick Jamie!

We then took her to a Bee's Game Monday Night! She loves her big brother so much! And her big brother loves her even more.

It was the perfect night, a little overcast, and not too sunny.

She will be turning 9 years old!

I sure do love my husband.

We had such a fun time. We even saw Lindsey and Ike there! Lindsay was such a good Aunt and took him there for his birthday.

Happy Birthday you 2 kids! We love you.

A Visit To CA

We thought it would be a very nice surprise to go visit Cindy and Randy for a long weekend over Mother's Day. They live in Discovery Bay, California. It is about an hour from San Francisco. It reminds me of Eden, Utah. You go through a valley of hills to get to the cozy little place. They have what is called The Delta (a lake) with homes that back up to it. It really is quite dreamy. I can see why they love it there. We left on Wednesday May 5th and came home Mother's Day night. If you remember, we were here last year after Jeff and Amber's Wedding. At this time, they were living in his Yacht. That was a pretty neat experience.

Check out their palace. They live on hole #10 of a Golf Course. You can only imagine what we did most of the weekend.

Here is their lovely pool that I enjoyed a number of times by myself. The first day we got there, I wasn't feeling well at all. I woke up with a bad stomach ache, I thought I was going to die. I hate flying and I get pretty motion sick and so you can only imagine how awful the flight there was. I wanted to die. At least I have a very caring husband who rubbed my back to soothe me into sleep.

When we first arrived at their home, golf was first on the list. I stayed home and made friends with their toilet and new dog, Jaxon. Don't worry, the next day I was feeling well enough to move around, although the tummy ache lasted pretty much all weekend.

Here is little Jaxon. He warmed up to me right away. It took him until the end of the trip to like Rodger.

After their first 9 holes, with many more to come!

On Thursday we went to the San Francisco Zoo. It was windy in Discovery Bay, so this made a perfect day in the City. We were lucky enough to have nice weather here.

Myself, Rodg, Justin, RJ (Randy's boys), and Randy.

The monkey's were my favorite.

Stop looking at me, Swan.

I enjoyed this "be quiet" sign:)

I love it when they call me Big Papa. He was huge!!

...And she's just pondering...

hahaha

Their train ride was awful. You went around a very small circle 3 times in a row. They obviously think we'll see something different the 2nd or 3rd time....nope. It was a big waste of $4 each.

Cute little thing.

The rest of our vacation consisted of golf! I didn't mind at all. I actually enjoyed it. I would walk most of the course (I was trying to get in my steps for my work contest). Walking made it much more enjoyable.

We also went to a few parties with their friends, ate yummy food, and played lots of Yahtzee.

Randy

Cindy loves to golf. Rodger is lucky to have a mother who loves it as much as he does.

I even took a few whacks at it. I think I want to sign up for lessons. I believe I would really enjoy it. I mean, I am my Father's Daughter.

I'm soooo soooo sorry babe. I had to do it. This is Rodger's "Pomegranate Berry Face". It gets me every time.

My husband's so hot right now.

The weather was so lovely. High 70's everyday.

Except for Sunday, it was a little chilly. This is what I do when my feeties are cold. They are the covers for drivers:)

We had such a good time! Thank you, thank you, and thank you Randy & Cindy! Happy Mother's Day to Cindy, My Mom, and Holly. We love you all so very much!

Favorites of each:

Cindy-Oh so caring

My Mom-Her cooking

Holly-Her laugh

We had a very special surprise when we got home Sunday night. While we were gone, our kitchen was getting a makeover. We walked into the house with our backs towards our kitchen. These are our faces moments before we turned around. We were soooo nervous and excited to see how it turned out.

You just wait until you see the pictures. Night and day. I am in love.