You Say It's Your Birthday...nah nah nah nah nah

Somebody in our family had a birthday. Can you guess who??



Yep. College Daughter has left her teens in the dust. She is officially twenty. Which is starting to get a little awkward since I am twenty-nine, but no reason to dwell on that.

We had a great time celebrating at the old stomping grounds surrounded by friends and family.

First up, swimming with the whole family, and when I say whole family I mean it. The blog world has not been formally introduced to our other children because we don't get to see them very often. Blog world, let me introduce Matt and Valorie.

Please ignore the fact that this is a Wedding picture. There were NO pictures taken at the pool, and the pictures from Easter are a little inappropriate. No Matt, Eggs do NOT come from there.

Anywho, Cool Dad worked on a "Dig", because that is what Archaeologists do. This particular dig lasted 10 months. There were many college students working on this dig, and they would randomly come and go for Sunday dinners at our house. Well, Val just kind of stuck. She fit in with our family, so we decided to keep her. We love being her family in "the West". Matt, well he comes with Val now, so we are stuck. Just kidding we love them both, and we had an awesome time swimming as a family for College Daughter's birthday. I think it will be hard to forget all of my "children" jumping off the diving board screaming, "Mom, mom, mom. Look at this one!!!!" I do think the lifeguards were ready to kick us off the hydrotube, we might have all screamed the whole way down, a time or two.

Next up, movie time. The girls went to Monte Carlo, which was predictable, but fun for girls of all ages. The boys went to The Zookeeper. Rumor has it, they will never get that hour and a half back. Oh, and if you are wondering, we rarely go to movies together. We discovered that everyone is happier if we each go to our own.

Now, I don't know that I can really say the water balloon fight was for College Daughter's birthday. In reality it was for Bubba. I knew if he didn't get some water fighting cousin time in he might actually die. However, since they all did soak College Daughter we will include it as a birthday activity.

On Saturday night Grandma made Hawaiian Haystacks and Cream Cheese pie which is one of College Daughter's favorite dinners. We had quite a crowd there, and it got a little loud, even though we kept it under thirty guests. College Daughter made a pretty good haul, and seemed quite pleased with her birthday weekend.

We love you College Daughter! We think you are beautiful, kind, a lifesaver, sweet, smart, genuine, caring, loving, flirty, sassy, tough, a fast swimmer, a good big sister, an awesome friend, talented, responsible, hard working, clean (a little OCD actually), a snazzy dresser, and a Daughter of God.