birthday and belmonts

Mike and Lizzie's lil man is already 1!!
and I needed an excuse to get to Utah :)

Apparently so did Valecia and Minor, and Mike’s Mom and his brother. We ALL also needed a place to stay. FULL HOUSE. Grandma Pat and Asher slept in his room. Doug on the couch, Mike and Lizzie on a blowup mattress in the dining room, and Valecia, Minor and I in the master bedroom.
We pulled late nights met with early mornings…. But the more time the merrier. We had a party to plan. What an exhausting adventure, but it was well worth it. We went for the Curious George theme but not sure if anyone noticed.  Lizzie is quite the little Martha Stewart - she even made Asher's shirt. 

and she may or may not have planned the entire family's outfits for the day... ;)

Asher didn’t really seem to get what was happening with the whole cake thing, present thing, people clapping, singing thing. He wouldn’t even dip into the cake until Lizzie cut out a piece and handed it to him. Maybe he is just going to be that well behaved and not ever make a mess…

And then there was Minor…. What a smart, little, wild man.. Singing at the top of his lungs, telling us stories, blowing bubbles, eating sweets galore, peeing on the playground..... Always keeping V on her toes while the rest of us laughed.

I love little humans.

Justin and his boy, Riot were in attendance.

And there was the quality time with two of my favorite people on this planet. The Belmonts, while we seem to be growing up.... our relationship stays amazingly the same.

home sweet home...