Happy Birthday Kelly!

**NOTE**
I wanted to do this post separate because Kelly is special and deserves his own post.

On June 4th Kelly turned 40. We celebrated that night with a nice dinner. Kelli & Shane came down from Custer and took us, and Jamie out to dinner at Bucca di Beppo. It was super good. I love Kelli & Shane, but we don't see them much because they live far away. It was nice to be able to spend a few hours with them and relax. It was a really good time filled with good food, good friends and lots of laughter.

Since 40 is a big birthday I wanted to do some thing special. I decided (after months of begging him to let me) to throw Kelly a party. I like to go to parties, and I can plan a fun time (just ask Melissa... Her Bridal Shower rocked), but I decided to enlist some help with this one. Jamie is like Martha Stewart and her parties are always fun, so I asked her to help me. She was more than willing and went above and beyond what she needed to. She made this party awesome.

Anyone who has every been to a party with me (besides the Shower mentioned above) knows they are laid back. Basically we have drinks, finger foods, maybe pizza, and we have a blast. Thanks 100% to Jaime this party was full of GREAT food. Kelly made some BBQ pulled pork, Jamie made Jerk Chicken, potato-corn salad, baked beans, and chocolate covered strawberries. Plus we had 40 huge cupcakes from Costco. Everything was super tasty.

Kelly is a bug fan of Red Hook beer so I got a Pony Keg (60 pints) of ESB. We didn't finish it, but everyone had a lot of beer... Well someone did anyways. Meg and I stuck to Malibu (of course). We had these drink dispensers that look like Humming Bird feeders. They were a great idea.

Since Megan's is across the parking lot, everyone who had kids dropped them off at her house, and Talia babysat. The kids came over a few time but mostly hung out over there. We did have one special appearance from Jackson. He sang Happy Birthday to Kelly and accompanied himself with armpit farts. It was so funny.

The party started at 5pm and the last guest (Megan) left at midnight... Well unless you count Jamie, who left at 8 o'clock this morning. All-in-all it was a great time. It was nice to see everyone over having a good time. I think I am going to have more parties here. I was especially happy that Melissa and Jamie got along so well. They are the 2 ladies I spend the most time with and now I can hang out with them together because they like each other. I think they already have a party idea in mind.. Something about Pimps and Hoes I think. Melissa & I have tons of matching clothes, and Jamie and I have matching shirts and pants... I wonder if the 3 of us will start dressing a like.. hmmm.... I'll let you know.

FYI.. I didn't take too many pictures but I may post them once I feel like uploading them off my camera.