Derek's 30th Birthday!

On June 4th, Derek turned the big 3-0! The girls & I surprised Derek at work with Tatonut :)

Can you tell Shelby was excited?!

Then, we had another little birthday celebration for Derek at one of our neighborhood playgrounds that evening after he got home from work. The plans were totally last minute {I hadn't time to think about birthday plans while we were dealing with the move earlier that week!}. I'm talking maybe an hour before we met at the playground, I was texting a few of our closest friends that live on base with us to see if they wanted to join us for pizza, beer, and cupcakes. And this just goes to show how amazing our friends are--every last one of them showed up on a mere 60 minute (or less!) notice including a family that had two boys to round up & another family with a one week old. That's when you know you've found good friends! ;)  The Goins, Gallimore, & Deans families all joined us, and it was such a fun night!

Becuase the evening was planned on super short notice, I sent Derek out to pick up pizza, beer, & cupcakes while I was texting our friends. Much to Shelby's delight, Derek came home with Frozen cupcaes in hand. What a good Daddy!! ;)

Nothing like pink Frozen cupcakes on your 30th birthday! ;)

Hadley playing in the dirt with the big kids!

We took lots of playground pictures of the kids that evening b/c we realized this was the kids' last chance to play together at Keesler! :(  For the past 3 years, these friends have grown to be like our family at Keesler. Several afternoons a week, Angela & I would text one another after the kids' afternoon naps to see where we wanted to meet up to play. We spent many an afternoon & evening on the Bayridge playgrounds watching our kids play & grow up together! It was so sad to think that this was their last time! So many fun memories!

This is what Hadley looks like every.single.time. after she plays on the playground....it takes forever for me to scrub the dirt out of her pants, but it's so worth it! She always has a blast playing like a big kid!

We had such a fun day celebrating Derek on his 30th birthday...we love you!!!!!