Pictures from Kelly's Party

Ok... So 3 weeks later... Here are the pictures I have from Kelly's 40th Birthday Bash. As I was looking at all the pictures, I noticed there is not a single one of Kelly... hmmm... I think he was camera shy that day... Or the girls just wanted to have our picture taken and we didn't care about the men...

The Ladies

Me, Melissa, Megan and Jamie

Me and Melissa

Me and Megan

The ladies again

Me and Carsten.. I look so short

40 cupcakes.. 1 for each year.

It took a while for us to light them all

Megan and I drinking from

our hummingbird feeders

Victoria is giving this guy a drink... He is Jackson's

Baseball coach Rick.

Jamie and Carsten

Me and Jamie

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.

May Update in June

It has been too long since I posted a blog. Sorry. The end of May was SUPER busy for me.

3 really exciting things happened.

First... I adopted a dog!! YAY!! Her name is Madison (Maddy) Skywalker Davis. She is a blue heeler (Australian Cattle dog) with SOOO much energy. I got her from PAWS in Lynnwood, WA. They were so good to work with and I am so happy with my baby girl. Maddy and her energy have been challenging but I am working on her. We plan on enrolling her in obedience school as soon as we can. We got her on 05/20 and took her camping with us to Winthrop over Memorial Day with the family. We all had a good time. She learned her name (always important), and that is where we picked her middle name. It was a toss up between Skywalker and Kain. My nephew, Kain, really wanted her to be named after him, but Kelly vetoed. Maddy LOVES Kain and thinks that she is his lap dog.




Maddy smiling while she relaxes at the campground.
Buster and Maddy on the ride to Winthrop. She has a cone on because she was just spayed.
Kelly insisted we stop at a waterfall so we could take our picture. This is on the side of the road at the top of Washington Pass on HWY-20
Jackson and Mia at Sunridge Mtn in Winthrop.

Second.. Kelly got a new job! YAY!!!!!!!!! I am so happy about that! I liked working with him for the last year, but he hasn't been happy. Insurance is what he loves, so customer service for cell phones wasn't a good fit. I am happy to say that on June 2ND, he started at PEMCO insurance. He is an adjuster there. It was a HUGE raise too (more shopping for me!!). Work has been different without him, but I know he is happy so that is what matters.

Third... Kelly and I moved to Lynnwood. Kelly REALLY loved our place in Seattle, but a 500 sq. ft Studio with 2 people, a dog and a cat is just too crammed. Plus there was a lot of construction, and more coming, so there wasn't a lot of parking. We moved into the same complex as Megan, Tali & Jackson. We really like the 1200 sq. ft. here. Plus we have a fenced in backyard so the dogs have room to play around. My commute to work is a lot longer, but on the plus side... Kelly now works about a mile from our new place. In the fall they will move their office to the office complex behind us. His walk to work should be about 5 minutes. We love living closer to our friends and family. I see Megan & kids almost everyday now which is nice.

I do have to thank my friend Jamie for all of her help with out move. We could not have done it with out her. Kelly & Sal spend one day moving all of the big stuff from the old place and my storage, but all the other stuff needed to be done. Jamie spend a whole day there packing by herself while we were working. Then she came back on our last day and helped pack the rest and cleaned the whole place. She also helped me unpack some in the new place. She is a sweetie and I am so thankful for all of her help.

Good Things

A few good things have happened since the last week of April.

Lets see.... After spending the weekend in Pullman with my friends (see previous post), I started thinking about my future and what I wanted to do with it. I know I need to go back to school. I have known this since I left school (which I shouldn't have done). But, I also want to go to Beauty School. It has been a dream of mine since I was about 15 or 16. My work will pay $8,000 a year for me to go to school to get a degree that is relevant to my job (communications, business, etc). And they pay up front... So I don't even have to come up with the money. So... I had a choice to make. Do I follow my dream, or get an education from an university? Well, I decided to go to university while it is still free... Besides, you are never to old to learn how to make other people look good so I can always go to beauty school later. So I applied to WSU. I am really hoping I get in. It has been a LONG time since I was in school, but I am hoping they accept most of my credits. I will keep you posted.

Last Monday, I bought a new car. I bought a 2008 Pontiac Vibe. It is SO CUTE!! It is silver (and for the record, I wasn't trying to be like Melissa, Kelly picked out the color). I took my dad shopping with me and we were able to get it about $6,000 below invoice (YAY DAD!!!). We took Buster in it yesterday. He really likes the extra room. I like that it can hold 4 adults and they all have leg room. Something my Focus did not have.

On Friday, I was again reminded that I have the best friend in the whole world. Melissa and I are HUGE Dierks Bentley fans. We have booth seen him in concert 3 times and have each met him once. She is a member of his fan club, and won 2 tickets to a private acoustic concert for 100 people. Being the wonderful person she is, she decided to take me (YAHHH WHOOO!!). I am so excited for it!! We went out shopping on Saturday and bought our outfits to wear. They are super cute.

We went to our friend's house today, Jamie and Carsten. They have been doing updates to their house and Kelly and I went out to help. I think Kelly may have helped, but Jamie and I mostly talked the whole time. But she did help me with a project. It was a lot of fun out there. Jamie and Carsten are awesome and I love hanging out with them.

After we left there, we picked up Kain, Talia and Jackson and went and saw Iron Man. I normally don't like super hero movies, but this one was really good. Jackson said it was better than Superman (GASP!). We are going to see it again on Friday at the drive-in with Team Wright, Sal & Danielle & kids, and Megan & kids. It should be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to it.

This next week should be pretty slow, but then Kelly and I have to start packing for our big move. Good thing Sal is going to help us.