Birthday weekend

I turned 31 on friday! I am not sure why 31 was harder for me than 30, but it was. It just SOUNDS so much older. I mean, 30 still sounds young and cool. 31, sounds blah and old. Ha!

The day started out great. I woke up to Brent bringing in breakfast tacos and Shipley's doughnuts before he headed to work. YUMMY! (I also got some LuLu Lemon workout gear!) As he was headed out the door, my friend, Ashleigh was walking up with a starbucks and scone! 5 of my good good friends, and I, have this birthday tradition for each birthday. We grab a coffee, some sort of yummy breakfast treat and our birthday gift, knock on the birthday girl's door and RUN. You never know who delivered the treats (we always take turns) but you know you are loved. It is so fun. Well, Ashleigh was trying to do just that, when Brent walked out the door to go to work. So, she ended up coming in with the treats and we got to talk for a few minutes. That was a fun treat in itself!

The rest of the day was your normal, mom of 3 kids kind of day. I forgot it was even my birthday. The day ended great, though. We packed our bags and headed to Canyon Lake for the weekend. My dad and his wife got rooms right off the lake in a cove off Canyon Lake. It was such a GREAT weekend. When we got there, it was around 530. We pulled up and saw a handful of deer standing in the parking lot of the lodge with people HAND FEEDING them! It was so cool. The kids got out of the car right away and jumped right in. It was so fun and crazy that we were feeding 10 point bucks and does! Brent, I am pretty sure, was in HEAVEN. The deer were so friendly. We ended the evening with good food, water activies, birthday cake, homemade ice cream and singing "Happy Birthday".

feeding the buck celery with his mouth!

pretty sure this might be what Heaven is like, for Brent!

Saturday morning, we woke up to find out that my dad had to go to the Hospital at 3'o clock in the morning. He has Chrone's and had a flare up, so him and his wife had to spend the weekned in the hospital. NOT COOL! It was sad because my sister came down with her new baby boy, Townes, that my dad and his wife hadn't met yet. My sister and Townes got in Friday night around 10:30 and I almost didn't text my dad that she made it (even though they asked me too). I ended up texting him, which I am glad I did, because they came down to help her unload her car and say hi. They were able to visit for a little bit and hold sweet baby Townes. If they hadn't come down to help unload her car, they wouldn't have seen her or the baby all weekend.


So, even with that bad news, they still wanted everyone to have a great weekend and play hard. That, we did. We wake boarded, tubed, knee boarded, drove the sea doo's, swam, relaxed ate, and did it all again! It was such a GREAT day.

view from our balcony 

My sister and nephew, Townes

Sweet baby Townes

Ezra riding the knee board into shore

This was the only thing he would "ride". He did ride the sea doo, eventually. 

The inflatables 

Some of the tubers being pulled

By Sunday, we were tired and SORE! This 31 year old has not wake boarded, tubed or knee boarded in a LONG time. It was all worth it. Such a great weekend of fun, fellowship, food and family time. The perfect birthday weekend! Sunday, some of us went back out in the water and had fun, others relaxed and read (me!). By Sunday afternoon, we packed up and headed back home. Everyone was in bed early on Sunday. I can't wait to go there again! It was such a great spot and less than an hour away!