Brooke's Birthday

We gave Brooke her birthday present when Mike came home for lunch. She absolutely loved it!! I thought she would be a little hesitant about riding it, considering her reaction when she couldn't quite make the pedals work on her cousins bike a few days before. But she didn't want to get off of it all day. Or for the next few days!





We had a family bbq for Brooke's bday on Saturday. That was a day!!! Mike and I started the morning by mowing the lawn. While weed eating (or trimming as most people call it) Mike hit a stick that was then thrown into the window on our sliding glass doors. And yes it broke again!! Now last summer Mike did the same thing to the same window only with the lawn mower and a rock... breaking the first window panel. Well he busted the second window panel. We spent the rest of the morning cleaning up the glass!!! By the time that was finished my siblings arrived from Aurora. And of course it was about to rain so we hurried to Cedar for a new sliding glass door. We were hoping to put french doors in, because they would look a lot better and make moving easier as well and more postive points. But our landlords wanted sliding doors for their dogs. So the good chunk of money we had started to save for a vacation in the late summer/early fall is gone now. Which we were so thrilled about. Lucky that is just extra he earned not what he had really planned.
Anyway so we spent the rest of the afternoon taking out the old and putting in the new. Hence my house wasn't that clean, the cake was made late and dinner was over an hour late. It was definitely one of those days!!! But everyone enjoyed dinner and the fire pit.


This is BrookeLynn riding her bike and yes she is in dress ups. It's hard to get her to stay OUT of them. lol!






I missed this... Mike likes to use the easy way when he can, put gas etc. on the wood. This he says wasn't the high point, it was apparently about twice as high. Everyone teased him about having to roll away or something like that, so he did and Amy snapped the picture. I thought it was hilarious!!




This is her cake. Now I know that I am really not that great of a cake designer. But I was hoping this would have turned out a lot better but then I put it together in like 45 minutes maybe less. (remember the day I had...) However Brooke loved it so that's all that really matters!