twenty-eight

How I am 28 years old?? I literally still feel like I'm 18! Too bad I'm almost 30 :( That seriously makes me want to cry! Despite the fact that I am somehow aging at a crazy rapid pace, my birthday this year was so much fun thanks to my cute hubby, family and friends! If you don't know, I looove holidays and like to make them special and a big deal so Al always likes to make sure my b-day is a fun day for me! 

The celebration started a few days before my birthday at Al's parents.  Me and Al have birthdays within the same week so Sunday's dinners are always a big party for us.  Al's fam knows me well - a big tub of Starlight Mint ice cream couldn't have been a more perfect birthday cake for me!

The day of my actual birthday I got up and got ready for work as usual, Al made me a green smoothie and I headed downstairs to leave when I saw this!! Isn't he the cutest?? Such a huge surprise! Each letter had funny names, words, drawings - and then 2 huge things of balloons AND flowers! He's a keeper! :)

Love these birthday Snap Chats from Meg and Kate!

 I took a long lunch break with my parents and Jack to go visit Ben and Rach in the hospital to see baby Russell who was born the day before. 

I am seriously obsessed with all of my nephews!!

 That night we went downtown to dinner at The Copper Onion

I can stuff my face full of food on my birthday, right?! So delish!

After dinner we went to see the gorgeous tulips at Temple Square and shop at City Creek

I'm pretty sure that when someone gives you a ton of balloons you have to go run around outside with them! :)

 It doesn't stop there! A few days later my friends took me out dessert at The Chocolate, my absolute favorite place!

Seriously love them all so much!!

Thanks to all of you for making my birthday so much fun!! Here's to another year!

Tulips!!

The last Saturday in April we decided to go to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point for a fun afternoon date for our bdays.  I had always wanted to go and I am so glad we did!  It was b.e.a.u.t.f.u.l.!! 

There were tulips everywhere, it was so amazing. 

It was the perfect Spring day, the weather could not have been better.

Tulips on Tulips on Tulips!

It was the perfect Spring, Saturday afternoon and such a fun little date! 

BYU Grad / Al's Bday!

April 26th was a big day around here this year - Al's birthday and Katie's graduation!

I skipped out on work early to meet Alan and a little birthday lunch, then I went down to Provo for the big graduation.

It's so crazy to think that my littlest baby sis is a college grad! I couldn't be more proud!

Love you Kates, Congrats!!

After the graduation Al met up with us for dinner to celebrate both events! 

Happy Birthday Al my love!!

Grandma's 80th!

On April 25th Grandma Lou turned 80!  To celebrate we had a huge party with the entire fam at The Huntsman's!

Purple crown for the Birthday Queen!

Grandma and her daughters

Everything was purple, of course!

SO much yummy food! :)

It was such a fun night that she deserved! Everyone in the family wrote letters/memories to her that we read aloud, made into a book and gave her gifts to go along with each memory.  She is so amazing, one of my best friends, and I am so glad to have her in my life.  Happy 80th Grandma!! Love you!

Random iPhone Dump

Seeing as how January and February are the most boring and depressing months of the year, we didn't have much going on. But here are some of the random snapshots from my phone!

Meeting my newest nephew, Spencer Bagley Iverson! Love him and can't wait to meet him next week!

Can't forgot about older brother Joshy - I just want to squish him!

Soo grateful for FaceTime!

Humungo icicle on our house

Jack loves Gramps and always want to copy him!

Dinner at Pop on Over Cafe with The Bagley's!

Craft night with the girls! Thanks Court for the fun night!

Went a little overboard with the Super Bowl treats!

My cousin Allison is getting married in March so my Grandma, mom and aunts threw her such a fun shower at The Lion House

I love Valentines decor this year for some reason, I went a little overboard as the month went one!

One night me and my friend, Megan, decided to randomly make these from Pinterest! They took for.ev.er but turned out really cute!

For Valentines we went to Takashi, City Creek and the Jazz game a few nights before, and then the night of we went to our FAV - Pizzeria Limone and got a Red Box, the perfect night if you ask me! I also came home to a deep cleaned house and flowers thanks to Al, he obviously knows the way to my OCD heart! :)

Jack turned 2!! 

I can't believe how big he is getting. 

I love him sooo much and his party was so fun. He just face-planted his cake for each bite, it was so funny.  And he loved the guitar that me and Al gave him! He loved blowing out his candles so we lit them up a few times for him to blow out!

At Sunday dinner Sawyer wanted Al to teach him all about Star Wars, it was so cute listening to Sawyer get so excited about all the characters names!

twenty-seven.

I can't believe I turned the big 2-7 this year! That is OLD!! Kinda makes me want to cry! But I'm getting used to the fact that I'm slowly and surely getting closer to the dirty thirty. Eeek!

My birthday, or should I say birthweek, was so much fun this year! It started out a few days before my b-day when my very best friends took me out to dinner to Trio and then to Red Mango. It was so much fun - we really could have stayed at Red Mango chatting (well actually yelling!) all night long! Especially once we got on the topic of Vampire Diaries and Revenge!Thanks friends, I dont know what Id do without you guys!

The morning of my birthday I woke up like normal, got ready for work and went downstairs to a million balloons and a huge sign with little messages and designs in each letter! It was so cute. Al did good! :)

 

I had a fun day at work with signs all over my cubicle, lunch with my fam and a gift from my boss!

After work I met Al at Fashion Place for shopping and CPK.

After dinner we had to go set up for Oh Sweet Sadie and I ran into my BFF Brina! I havent seen her in months so it was fun to catch up! And then we ended the night watching my favorite movie, New Years Eve! 

 

It was such a fun day - thanks for all your texts, calls, Facebook messages, etc! 

The next night all the Daybreak girls got together for Red Mango! We all live so close but don't see each other nearly enough so I loved getting together - I really do live in the best neighborhood in the world and am so grateful for all the friends Ive met!

The last party was Sunday dinner at my parents for Al and my birthdays.  We chose our fav meal, Hawaiian Haystacks and I requested my FAVORITE most delicious chocolate orange cake from Daniel's Fine Chocolates in Holladay - seriously people, it's to.die.for. Trust me. You must call him up and order one for your next event!!

Thanks friends and fam for making it such a fun birthday! Until next year.....! :)

April Catch Up

Ok really - I HATE the new blogger!!! 

Anyways - April came and gone, we were sooo busy (in a good way), that it just flew by. 

Again, all these pics are iPhone/Instagram  pics so sorry for you Instagram followers who have seen these already but I have yet to pull out my actual camera. 

April started out with April Fools Day of course! Alan's mom had assigned me dessert for Sunday dinner (which happened to be Sunday dinner for her birthday) and since it was April Fools Day we couldn't pass up the opportunity to play a joke on his fam! So we made the most disgusting cake there ever was - vinegar instead of water, salt instead of sugar, and so on.  The time came and his fam started eating it and acting so weird and me and Al were just watching and pretending to eat.  Since I'm the inlaw they didn't know what to do or how to react, it was so funny! But they got us back.  They all started acting sick and I totally believed them because the cake really was sooo disgusting, I was soo worried until they shout April Fools back. You probably had to be there but it was hilarious!

Way back at the very beginning of April we went to City Creek for the first time - it was love at first sight (for me)! I felt like we were on a mini vacay!

For Easter we went to my parents for dinner and egg dying! And of course using Whoppers as lipstick like we used to when we were little!

 One night Al and I went to the temple before a Jazz game to see the gorgeous tulips.

After months of applying to get Ellen tickets we finally got them!! I cant wait!

At my cousin Whitney's baby shower! The food was to die for! So excited for Whit!

AvenueLou went to the Utah Valley Women's Expo! It was a lot a fun, but I was sooo tired after 2 long days of standing on my feet talking to people! Thanks to my wonder sis, Katie, for helping me one day while Al was out of town!

My AMAZING mother spoke at BYU Women's Conference and she, of course, did SUCH a great job. And she got to speak with the hilarious Mary Ellen Edmunds!

 

Me, Meg and Katie did the Color Me Rad 5k a few weeks ago and it was SO FUN!! Basically you are each given a bag full of colorful chalk/cornstarch stuff and you throw it on each other while running! But not only that, there are 5 "color stations" throughout the race where they spray you with water and throw even more color on you! It was sooo funny and so much fun! We could barely see a thing but it was perfect weather and so fun to run around the UVU campus -  we will definitely be doing it again next year. 

Al turned the big 3-1 at the end of April! Our birthdays are only a few days apart so Al's fam had a birthday Sunday dinner for both of us.

On Al's actual birthday we met up after work to go downtown to dinner.  Right when we pulled on the freeway Al's tire went flat! We always have crazy stuff happen to us on holidays! I felt so bad for Al out there changing the tire on his birthday, especially when it started on raining him!

We finally made it to dinner and stuffed ourselves at Tucanos. I embarrassed Al big time when I told them it was his birthday and they all came and sang to him!

I decided to act like we were in middle school again and made Al a candy bar poster!