Friday we spent downtown at the Get!Downtown Festival. The event shuts down part of Mainstreet and fills it with fun. I took the girls with my dad and family and we had a good night. Tony Camm opened the ceremonies with his Get!Downtown song and I was MORE then happy to sing along!

Balancing Act

Meatball Eating Contest

Saturday most of the day was spent cleaning madison’s room! I am happy to finally be getting that organized. While we organized my dad came and got Allie and took her for her very first bike ride Down Town! She did awesome. She rode 10 miles on a trail we have here. They rode under a bridge. Checked out a part of the James River. Stopped and had lunch at the Depot Grille. About 100 feet from the car on their return back from the 10 mile bike ride Allie fell.  Learning from the last time she hit the ground she didn’t put her hands down Thankfully it wasn’t too bad. It just scared her more than anything. She does have one knee that is pretty banged up and will probably take a couple weeks to heal but once she was home and calmed down she was back up and ready to hit the trail again!! That makes me excited.

Saturday evening was another drive to Greensboro, NC to see Tyler Hilton. It has been like a year since I last saw him!!! Plus I love going to shows and seeing people I have just recently met! Makes the show so much more enjoyable :) Tyler played a looong solo show and it was fabulous.  Love seeing/hearing me some Tyler. Thank you Tyler!!

With a 3:30am home arrival time Saturday/Sunday morning there was not much happening on Sunday. I did get up and go to church. We had dinner with some friends and other than that I was tired so we took it easy. Jason had to work which he does a lot of recently so the girls and I just sat around and watched some 9-11 shows on tv. We had a great weekend. Oh and we saw this really cool bug too on the outside of the door. A praying mantis.

This my buddy. We have been friends for about 6.5 years now. Today is her birthday and I hope she has the best one ever!

Stay Young Friend! Stay Young

1. I held my very FIRST party at my house.
2. You guys remember one my fav artists - Todd Carey…Yes? Well I had him come to the party.
   No big deal

We had the best time! Just. the. best. time.
I had an original head count of 23 and I think we ended up with a few more which was fantastic. With the help of my parents across the board, sister, and friends we had PLENTY of food, chairs, tables, tents!!  and for music…. we had it live right in the backyard. What more could a girl want? or maybe this girl!

The kids had a blast. We had the trampoline up so lots of jumping was done. Not only by the kids but also by the adults!! We put up the slip-n-slide  and with a little soap added to it the kids went a slippin (my stepbrother Shawn’s idea).

As for Todd he was great. He won the kids over the moment he stepped out of the car.  And he jumped on the tramp with them! Yep in their book that makes him one of the coolest!

We did some hanging out.  We did some eating. We did some jumping. And we had two great times where I got to sit and just listen to music that I so much love!!! Todd Thank You!!

Some food prep

Some Bounce Time (Shawn, Todd, Me, Allie, on the tramp Maddie is in there too somewhere)

Cool down in front of fan while Todd gets some 5 year old advice

Swing Time which most took advantage of at some point! (Lara and Shawn swinging)

Slip-n-Slide, gotta love the facial expressions!!

Girls and Rein chillin

Some Todd playing pictures

My dad listening – I throw this in because I took the picture and there was not much he could do about it

Maddie had to get a picture but she was still on the shy side.  Does that surprise anybody? She has a smile though.

Since Todd has left Madison has been non stop with questions and has decided I should have another party because this one was so much fun.  She adds to the end of that statement that yes Todd would need to come back. I just smiled. Allie agrees.

There are so many that I want to thank for helping me get all this together. My mom has been with me through out the week. All my family and friends brought food dishes which was awesome and I want to thank all for coming. I do believe my first party was successful!

I am really glad that I did this It was a beautiful Memorial Weekend and I don’t think I would have want to spend it any other way. Super cool and I love you all!