Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Birthday SURPRISE!!!!

So..... we had these grand ol' plans of going to Albuquerque for the 4th of July. But some little "squirt" decided he needed to get the hand/foot/mouth virus - and since Noah has been the epitome of health in all of his short 18 months, we decided it was best not to go and risk him getting it too. BIG bummer. =(

Plan B: go down for Nathan's birthday and surprise the heck out of Jon & Erynn!!

It worked. They were TOTALLY surprised - and seeing the look on Erynn's face when she opened the door was priceless. =)

So Nathan had a pool party for his first birthday bash. It turned out SO cute and everyone had such a good time. Erynn did an awesome job decorating and planning.















After all of the hype from the party, we finally got to spend some quality time together - just our families. Very much needed. We missed each other a LOT. It's crazy how fast 4 days can fly!







As you can tell, we all spent a lot of time in the water and playing with the water. It was hard to get pictures of everything, but we sure tried!



Sunday (late) morning, all of the girls got to spend some quality time together and went shopping and out to lunch. After they got home, the boys handed over "baby duty" and headed out to go play baseball! After all that excitement, the 4 of us (Greg, Jen, Jon and Erynn) went out on our traditional double date - no pictures from that..... BUT..... we did meet up with the rest of the fam afterwards at Menchie's and got fro yo - it was pretty darn good!

Noah finally warmed up and slowly became bff's with "Uncle Caleb," "Uncle Bryant" and "Gammy." Of course that was towards the end of the visit - so basically that means we'll just need to see each other again sooner! ;)

Our last day there, before heading home, we went and had lunch at Johnny Rockets and saw "Aunt Cayce" hard at work.


We hated leaving because we ALWAYS have an awesome time when we're there. That's the worst part about going - having to come home!! It was fun planning and scheming the surprise though. Might just have to try that again! ;)

4 comments:

Clare said...

Kind of wishing we had a pool around here, lately.:)Looks like fun!

Gammy Mangum said...

It was SO very much fun!! It just went by way too fast. It's always sad to say goodbye...

We love y'all so much! Thanks for making the trip down and surprising the heck out of Jon and Erynn!! Haha!

See you real soon!! YAY!! :)

Mom Walker said...

What a GREAT weekend! It was SO fun being with our ALBQ fam and watching our babies play. I can't believe we actually surprised Erynn & Jon - that was priceless. I'm glad we could be there to celebrate Nathan's very first birthday - it was such a fun party. Love you all!

Erynn said...

Love, love, love, love, LOVE this post!!! :) I was SO shocked! I'm SO glad you guys came for his party - like Mom said, it went by WAY too fast! Can't wait to see you again soon! Love you!