A Celebration (or Two or Three)

Callie turned 29 on January 25th. We celebrated a few days early to accommodate work & school schedules. We were happy to have the Hardings and Petersbergers over for the impromptu party! (I'm always looking for a reason to have friends over & Spencer loves having a reason to use his charcoal grill so it was a win-win for both of us.) After a fabulous dinner of "bring your own meat + something to share with everyone", we sang Happy Birthday to Callie & ate cupcakes. Plural. Mike decided to see if he could fit an entire cupcake in his mouth. Then Spencer tried. The girls couldn't be outdone! Can you even imagine the noise level at this point? Ya, IT WAS AWESOME!!! We finished the night by taking some HORRIBLE pictures that I will not include on this blog. I will just say that if you try to take a picture when someone is blowing out their lips to make a horse sound, they end up incredibly hilarious but horrible!




Now to change gears just a bit...my Grandma Marie was best friends with her sisters. They began a tradition of going to lunch to celebrate each other's birthdays. This tradition was passed on to my mom & her sisters (including sisters-in-law). So on Callie's actual birthday, Emily & Miley, Callie, Madison, Harrison, & I went to lunch to celebrate. We went to Olive Garden for their Soup, Salad, & Breadsticks lunch and it was wonderful. Madi & Miley wore their "I heart My Aunt" shirts in Callie's honor. Harrison slept through the entire meal. LOVE MY BABIES!!! And my SISTERS!!!



And as if that wasn't enough celebrating, we got together later in the week with our cousins who live in Utah to have dinner for Callie, Hugh, Candace, and Spence McArthur's birthdays too. Good times, good memories.