Big Party Weekend!

Yup, my baby girl- JADE turned 19 years old Saturday... officially at 6:46pm.

But first, Friday, Jade was invited by her friend Eli and his mom and another friend to go to Sol Duc Hot Springs. She had a great time! She did get a little sunburned on her white skin!!!! Bad Jade! She remembered to put sunblock on her face... just not the rest of her! I was smothering Aloe on her all evening! Even sunburnt she's adorable- LOVE THAT FACE!!! OOOOUUUCHHHHH!!!

Anyway, here's a couple pictures Eli's mom, Jane, had taken. Jane also said I could go with her sometime.... I'm thinking Sept 2nd..... :o) Jade, Eli and Josh...Also, Friday night, we had been meaning to pop open Kent's bottle of champagne he was given as a gift from his home stay family in Europe! Of course, we don't condone underage drinking, but this was a gift! Anyway, I told Kent we would open it and have a few small drinks then dump the rest out. Jade, Kent and I all toasted his trip to Europe than had a few drinks in a glass. Kent also used his fancy glass he bought in Europe (it's actually a set of 2, with real gold plated leaves on the blue glass).

Ok, one more funny thing about Kent before we get to Jade's party. All you out there who are in your 30's or you who have kids in their 30's- how many of you remember the Monchichi cartoons? I do, it was one of my favorites! Well, Kent reminds me of them. I call him my little monchichi sometimes. The kids just look at me funny when I do, cause THEY don't know what I'm talking about or what a darn monchichi is. I was trying to explain it was a cute little monkey thing with crazy hair like Kent has. They still weren't getting it, then it dawned on my I could probably find a picture of one on the Internet. And I did! It was so funny cause I had the kids watch and old cartoon episode... funny! Ok, for those of you who don't know what a monchichi looks like here you go... (then scroll back to the picture of him holding his champagne bottle- identical I tell ya! Bushy hair over the ears, see it???)Then Saturday we were having a party for Jade. Even tho she's all grown up, she's still my baby and I love throwing parties for my kids! We had Aurora this weekend so she was able to help me do the shopping! Here she is helping Jeromy with the decorating...

Aurora and Jade frosting the cupcakes- love all this help!!!It's not a party without balloons...

I asked Jade what kind of food she wanted for her party and she said: strawberries, cherries, BBQ potato chips, regular potato chips, carrots, red and orange peppers WITH ranch, chocolate and dark chocolate. Oh and sushi.... I got everything but the sushi (yuck!) so I'll get that for her later this week at Costco! But for the most part it was great healthy food! Oh and she wanted yellow cupcakes with vanilla and chocolate frosting, oh and vanilla ice-cream. Gotta love a girl who knows exactly what she wants!!

Grandma and Grandpa and Jade...

Aurora and Kent...

Jeromy and Hannah...

Love these boys: Kent and Kyle...

Sweet girls: Hannah, Alyssa and Kelsey...

More cute girls: Camille and Phoebe...

My cousin Laura and her mom Mary...

Me and my mom...

And myself, cousin Laura and my sister Misty...

Party goers...

Phillip, Eli and Kent...

Jeromy wrasselin' with Shane and Max... poor defenseless kids...

Eli and Jade...

Just love all these teenagers... Phillip, Kyle, Kent, Jade and Hannah...

HAPPY 19TH

JADE LORRAINE!!!!

So today, after church, our friend Jane had invited us to dinner! She BBQed flank steak- yum! We had a great time eating and visiting. Thanks Jane for a great afternoon!

Afterwards, we headed over to Jeromy's parents house to drop off some stuff and visit real quick.

Then we dropped Aurora off, then headed home. A long day people!

Actually a long weekend! I'm glad I had 3 days off! It was awesome!

Good night!