Birthdays and Dedications

As we get ready to RISE UP tonight to cheer on the Falcons in the Superbowl, I realize I have not posted about the festivities we enjoyed last weekend.

I've begun attending Stroller Strides with Karlee and Brighton.

It's an awesome workout that the kids and moms enjoy

It was a big weekend for our Florida family, with Brighton's dedication into the church and then Adam's birthday.

We were honored to be invited to attend Karlee and Jonathan's church last Sunday and to witness their beautiful daughter, Brighton, being dedicated into their church family.

It was wonderful to experience a different service, and I can see myself joining Karlee at this church in the coming months when we will be attending church without the guys.

Later that afternoon, Leaha and Jesse took on Potatoes duty (thank you!) while a group of us took on Escape Zone 60 in Destin, to celebrate Adam's birthday.

I have done one of these previously with my work team, but it was nothing like this.  This group was so in sync!  We were so fast, the Game Master stopped our progress to tell us he was officially impressed.

We broke the all time record by a full two minutes, completing the challenge in just 23 minutes!

Afterwards, we enjoyed chicken n' dumplings at Adam's request, and even got him a smash cake!  He had looked longingly at Potatoes's smash cake back in December, and now that his birthday came around, we felt it was the perfect surprise.  Unfortunately, Potatoes did not understand that this aprty was not about him and immediately began the most forceful sign language for 'eat' I have ever seen, furiously pointing to the smash cake and then smashing his hand into his own face to show us exactly what he thought the cake was for.

Luckily, Uncle Adam graciously shared.

This weekend, we celebrated another birthday (a bit early), as our sweet friend Harper gets ready to turn one.  Ashley and I leaned on each other greatly throughout our pregnancies and it has been so wonderful watching our kiddos grow this year.  Their family will be moving shortly, so they had a combined going away and birthday party.

Potatoes was fascinated by the balloons, and was talking up a storm about them!

He even left Harper alone with her smash cake (well, I may have had him playing outside during this part, but at least he wasn't around to interfere!).

Now, fruit tray in hand, we are heading to Uncle Bryan and Uncle Adam's house to watch the big game on Bryan's new 75 inch tv.

RISE UP!