Pay it Forward

Per Andrea's recommendation we are at a little place in Ames called, The Grove Cafe. It was a delicious and plentiful home style breakfast cafe on Main St. When our check arrived the waitress told us that Medicap Pharmacy was "paying it forward" and our breakfast was on them. What a great surprise! Now it's our turn to pay it forward! 

40th birthday

4 candles on 4 brownies for my 40th. 

Celebrating my 40th in the Fox Hole with family. The best gift of all. 

I had a great day celebrating. It started off mom and I going to exercise class, then did some shopping, out for lunch at Panera, then on to an afternoon at the spa. Afterwards, we came home to celebrate with everyone. I loved all the texts, phone calls and messages from family and friends. What a fantastic 40th!

Indoor playground

This morning we hit up the playground for a morning activity. First thing was she wanted to be up riding the caterpillar. 

This was by far her favorite thing to do. Go down the slide and say "weeee!" Most of our time there was spent doing this. 

Tonight Steve and I had a fun family filled night. Ev came home with me and when we got home Steve  was waiting for us. Everlee was so excited to see him she ran to him and gave him a big hug. It was just adorable. 

Then grandma showed up and was surprised to be greeted by Everlee. 

Cousins reunited!

Then Rich and Dan showed up with a chair/ottoman and dinner for all of us! What a fun birthday eve:)

Super Saturday

Saturday we spent the day in Ft. Dodge with the Krier's. We watched Anthony play two basketball games, ate lunch ate a great local place to watch the ISU game, shopped(I picked out a few birthday gifts) and capped off the birthday night celebration with some drinks at Applebee's. What a great day filled with so many laughs:)

Curls

After nap Ev said "watch cartoon." So while we waited for the smith clan to arrive she chilled in her chair eating a snack watching Julius jr. 

I love everything about her hair: the color, the thickness and especially those curls! 

No nap Everlee

After lunch Everlee asked me, "more walking Paul Ginny's?" I told her we couldn't because it was cold and snowy outside today. (We love to walk next door and sit on their bench.) Since we couldn't go out I decided to bring the outside in. I filled up a bowl with snow and she loved playing in it! After play time I thought she would be ready for her usual nap....

.....but she wasn't! After 90 minutes of doing everything in her room but nap I went in to get her. She went right to her pink chair, tipped it over, climber up the back and slid down at least a dozen times. This cutie sure keeps things interesting;)

5k snow scamper 2015 weekend

Mom and I toughed out the muddy, icy, and hilly course at hillview to finish in 41min 21 sec. All while Steve and dad enjoyed their guy time at the motorcycle shop. 

I loved being able to see my sweet neice Emelia before and after the race. I also won a $10 gift card to Fareway in the raffle drawing. 

Then Saturday after the ISU victory we headed to Aurelia to spend the night with our best friends the Krier's and Ohlson's. We enjoyed a great supper of smoked meat and all the sides at the local tavern. Afterwards we played Battle of the Sexes. The men's team won but we all enjoyed the many laughs. 

My first birthday gift to start out birthday month from my best friend, Rachel. 

Good family, good friends definitely equals good times:)