30th Birthday Weekend!

Josh surprised me this weekend. The first stop was a hotel in Atlantic City...at Harrah's Casino. Josh got a free room, so all we had to pay was $11. We went out to dinner, played $5 in slots and watched a movie; I was too uncomfortable to really do anything else. It was fun!

The next morning we got up early to go to the next stop. I had no idea what we were doing, and then I realized we were almost to Philly. ANYTHING could be going on in Philly so I had no clue. Then we pull into the airport parking lot! I asked Josh, "Are we FLYING somewhere?!" I thought and was hoping we might be flying to Indiana and sure enough we were! I was so excited. He said he thought I'd want to spend my 30th birthday with family.

When we landed we were greeted with this adorable sign, homemade by my awesome neices, Mia & Marisa (with a little help from Andi). Notice the Cinderella stickers, Mia went through all her stickers and picked them out just for me because she remember that I love Cinderella. Isn't that cute?

Here's the cute little munchkins.

We got to see Andi & Marc's new house (actually they've lived there about a year, I just hadn't been there yet) and go through Andi's maternity clothes that I am borrowing. The girls thought it was a fun game to try them on and run around. Yes, these are maternity shorts, not potato sacks.

Trying on maternity bras. (the old fashined way)

Marisa with Grandma



Birthday Breakfast! Ever since we were kids we always have birthday breakfast. It started out with donuts, then we had birthday rolls (those pillsbury awesome ones) and this year we had Belly Stickers AND Birthday Rolls. Mmmmmmm. We also get to open presents.



I got the diaper bag I wanted!!! I've always wanted a Vera Bradley Diaper Bag. I actually called my mom to see when the sale was and I was too late; turns out it is in May, not June. I told her I was upset now because I wanted to get a Vera Bradly diaper bag at the sale and give somebody money. (cause they're like $100 normal price.) (By the way, Vera Bradley is from Fort Wayne and there's a huge sale every year, I think at least half price, maybe more.)
She said to maybe put it on my Christmas list and I was all bummed because I didn't want anybody to have to pay full price for it. Turns out, she REMEMBERED from like 3 years ago that I said I wanted one, and had a friend go to the sale and get one, this was even before she knew I was pregnant! I guess it was a "just in case" present because she knew we were trying. She is so sneaky! I also can't believe she remembered that I wanted one! It's exactly what I would have picked out, too. My Mom is the BEST!

My sisters and Mom put together a "This is your life" game. They blindfolded me and took me to different stops that were important while growing up.



This is Mrs. Boone, my piano teacher. This was a big surprise, I think it's been about 10 or 11 years since I've seen her!
They made me do little "challenges" at every stop in order to move on. I had to play something and she had to approve. I sightread this music that was on the piano. It was bad, but she said it was good because that meant I could still sightread.



This was my elementary school!



I had to climb over this in order to move on. I did better and hung from it. I did this every day during recess.



The Ashley girls



Walking to North Side Park where we had band practice.

I had to play a scale? Or Chief Mac? I forget. My clarinet was all nasty it tasted and smelled like mildew.



The Ashley girls at Highland Bethel Church.

The Beans came down and we all went out to dinner. This is all of us!



The Ashleys & The Beans



James, Josh & Adeline



Erin, Betsey & Charity



Adeline & Charity



All the Bean Kids



Adeline kissing us good-bye. It was precious.



Mia showing off all her lightning bugs.



Marisa catching herself?

I think Marisa was jealous of all the attention I was getting so she was pretending to be pregnant, too. I especially love the binky along with it.



Sisters!



Dad, Mom & Me

Thanks for a great weekend, everyone! It was so great to be back and get to spend my birthday with you!