Steven's Birthday 2009

Steven turned 28 a couple weeks ago and since his birthday fell on a Saturday, we were able to celebrate all weekend long! The festivities started out with a family dinner at our house (I decided to make everything this year. It sure was a lot of work, but gave me a new appreciation for caterers and family members who offered to bring things)!

Steven getting ready to blow out the candles:

Mackenna and Hailey pretty much ate all of the cupcakes themselves:Mackenna and Dad opening presents:

The gifts:

The next day, Steven's brother, Jason and his wife Chrissi came with us to Ruth's Chris for dinner. The best part was that I had made plans for Steve's best friend, Brad and his wife Kirstie to come up from San Diego and surprise him at dinner. He was so shocked that I actually kept a secret from him and we all had the best time at dinner. Afterwards, we all went to our favorite bowling place in Anaheim and had a blast.

The boys (not fair that Brad took a bowling class in college)!!!

The girls:

Remember in a previous post where I said I'm a really good bowler?? Well, I guess it was beginner's luck because I did beyond bad this time!

For some reason, these drunk ladies that were bowling next to us, decided that they were our best friends. This one in the middle of Chrissi and Kirstie kept confiding all of her life's problems to us and then when she found out Brad and Kirstie had only been married 3 weeks, she called them "3 weeks" the rest of the night. It was pretty hilarious!! Oh, and by the way, that was ONLY her 6th Mai Tai of the night!!