birthdays!

I was struggling to find anything to blog about these last couple of months…but now ideas are popping up everywhere and I feel like I have no time to write any of it down. Funny how that always seems to happen.

We have celebrated two birthdays recently. Jana’s was on the 30th of March so we went over to my parent’s house for the usual dinner and games. Mom and Dad bought these enormous steaks that were DELICIOUS! I felt like John was on Man vs Food (yes the steaks seemed that big!) and he conquered the challenge! I on the other hand only ate maybe a third of one in addition to the grilled shrimp, potatoes and dessert. YUM! It was a beautiful day outside so we kicked around the soccer ball, threw the Frisbee and played some Bocce while the food was grilling. It was so nice!







Mom mentioned that Jana had been wanting a recipe book to have a place to keep all the new recipes she is learning. I don’t know what made me decide to make one rather than buy one, but I took on a new project. I only had a week to make it, so I spent every night that week working on the book piece by piece and am so happy with how it turned out!

I made it so she could add her own recipes and she can add more pages if she needs to in the future. I drew the logo on the front and pretty much just scrapbooked the rest of it with modge podge and paper. It was fun and pretty easy to do!







We also celebrated Bethany’s birthday last weekend with a surprise party. It’s always so fun when the person has NO idea what is going on and complains that no one is doing anything special for them. Little did she know, she even decorated for her own party. We got her pretty good!!