6 YEARS AGO TODAY......

WE WERE HERE

DOING THIS

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BABE!

I LOVE YOU!

Upper 20's what?

Where does the time go? It feels like just yesterday I was turning 21 and now I am definitely considered upper 20's! My birthday ended up being a weekend long celebration - it was tons of fun! It started off with dinner with our great friends at the Cheesecake Factory! Molly, Raquel, Sherri, Shayne, Chase and James

They had their seasonal blueberry cheescake and it was sooooo good! Look at all that whip cream doesn't it just look delectable?

Of course noone ever eats all that whip cream but the whole time we all kept daring each other to eat the whole lump of it. Molly finally caved, what a good sport. Thanks for the pic Molly it's a classic!

Molly made this sign for me - so cute! The funny thing about this pic is that originally it was just Molly and I with this sign, Raquel jumped in to even it out for us! I also got some great card stuff from Raquel - thanks girls, you're the best! Since it was Memorial Day weekend we headed up to Michigan to visit Sherri's brother and his family. We ate at this really yummy Mexican restaurant. Funny side note: At the Cheesecake Factory everyone told them it was my bday so they would sing to me and then again here at dinner with my bro they did the same. Both times they "forgot". I wasn't complaining - guess I'm just not supposed to get older!

After dinner we went to a Tigers game. I felt like I was in highschool all over again. They kept playing Welcome to the Jungle and Eye of the Tiger - I loved it. All you Bengals will know exactly what I'm talking about!

Our niece Sarah - she is a girl after my own heart. All she could talk about before the game was eating a hot dog and popcorn. Look how happy she is to finally have it!!

Baby G, Granters or Grant. He is just too cute for words. We are working on him early with all the sports!

There was a firework show after the game. Sarah loves them but thinks they are too loud so Uncle Shayne hooked her up with some sweet headphones!

Sarah is obssessed with 1,2,3 whee! I was able to capture it here and thought it was too cute! The next day was Sunday, we had an awesome bbq and I even got cake! Sarah made sure to put the candles on for me. She was adamant that we have princess candles - she did a great job don't ya think!

They finally caught me. I was sung to twice on my actual birthday. Once here at the bbq and once at church in primary. Kasey leads the singing and when she was asking if there were any birthdays Sarah totally sold me out and announced it was mine. It was actually so precious to have the whole primary sing to me, not everyone gets so lucky on their birthday! The best part was that Sarah was front and center belting it out the loudest, she is such a sweetheart.

Sarah "cutting" Shayne's hair. She sure loves him and he is such a good sport to play with her like he does!

It wouldn't be a trip to Michigan with out Custees!

There is this really yummy (and cheap) frozen custard place that you can walk to from my bro's house. The kids call it custees and would go 10 times a day if their mom and dad would let them.

Priceless - I just love the ice cream all over the face look, do you think any made it into his tummy? So as you can see I had a wonderful birthday and it doesn't even end there - I know I am totally spoiled. For one of my presents my parents helped with a plane ticket for me to go on our annual Cali trip with them. So....pics of that to come very soon - stay tuned!

Sno Shack

Dear Mr. Sno Shak,

Oh how we miss your delicious goodness. Especially on these oh so hot days! Banana. Black Raspberry. Blue Cotton Candy. Blue Raspberry. Cheesecake. Cinnamon. Cola. Cream Soda. French Vanilla. Godzilla. Green Apple. Hawaiian Punch Honey Dew Melon. Kiwi. Lemon Zesty. Mai Tai. Margarita. Nectarine. Orange Pineapple. Peach. Pineapple. Pink Champagne. Pink Grapefruit. Pokemon. Popeye. Red Raspberry. Rock N Roll. Rum Butter. Sno Cream. Sour Grape. Strawberry. Swedish Berries. Tamarindo. Tiger's Blood. Watermelon. Wild Black Berry. Wild Strawberry. Black Cherry. Blue Bubblegum. Blue Hawaii. Blueberry. Cherry Cola. Coconut. Cranberry. Daquiri. Fuzzy Navel. Grape. Guava. Hawaiin Tropic. Horchata. Lemon Lime. Lucious Lime. Mango Madness. Maui Wowi. Orange. Passion Fruit. Pina Colada. Pink Bubble gum. Pink Cotton Candy. Pink Lemon Sour. Pomegranate. Red Hot. Rio Grande. Root Beer. Silver Fox. Sour Cherry. Sour Green Apple. Suicide. Sweet Cherry. Tequila Sunrise. Tutti Fruiti. Wedding Cake. Wild Cherry.

So cool and refreshing when it slides down your throat. And the cream, oh the cream!!! Need we say more?

WISH YOU WERE HERE! :(

RACE FOR THE CURE

Shout out to all you breast cancer survivors out there and those of you fighting it right now. I went with some friends to run in Race for the Cure on Saturday and it was so fun. There were 45,00 people there to support the cause all in pink: pink wigs, leggings, tattoos, capes... you name it - I just love it. I wish we would have taken some pics of everyone decked out.

Checking out all our free goodies - of course all things pink!

Shayne's Grandma (aka Pacer) is a breast cancer survivor and his Great Grandma Sandy just passed away from it last year so I was running in their honor.

Heather, Me, Annie and Allyson Thanks girls for going with me it was such a fun morning - let's do it again next year!

Allyson and I still haven't fully recouped from our 1/2 marathon. Her foot has been hurting ever since and my knee has been bugging me. We ran this anyway! What's 3 miles after you've done 13 right...wrong! We paid for it after - but it was all worth it anything to help fight for the cure! I think you can tell from the pic Ally is hurting a bit more than me - your poor foot, way to go for running anyway!

Capital City Half

If I would have told you I was going to run a half marathon before I did you probably would have all died laughing (for those of you that know me well), knowing that I am no runner. For a long time I couldn't even believe I had agreed to do it. Well, I did in fact run 13 miles on Saturday and here is the proof. Bright and early at 6:30 am on the way to the race.

Being crazy pre-race we were all pretty hyped up! The infamous O-H-I-O that everyone spells out here for games and just at random These are the 3 awesome girls out here that I decided to run it with. They were so motivating and pushed me even when I thought I couldn't do it - thanks guys!

Just some more great girls that ran as well

Between the 4 of us we didn't think we would really run together but rather wait for each other at the finish line. Taunya and I ended up keeping the same pace for about 10miles - thanks Taunya I couldn't have done it without you! Taunya's husband would ride his bike ahead and cheer us on and take pics it really kept us going. Not sure when this was but it has to be early on cause I'm still smiling

They gave us these medals at the end - even better I love having something to show for what I've done. Just for the record I was not doing this to "race" but just to say I had and could do it. I kept telling everyone I would probably never do it again. After actually being there and finishing I will eat my words - I would definitely do this again. Can't wait for the next one girls!

The tags on our shoes is how they clocked your time. My goal was to run it in 2 hours and 10min and I am proud to say I beat my goal and ran under that

I wasn't sure if Shayne was going to be able to get there with all the road blocks and traffic. I was soooo happy to see him waiting for me at the finish line - thanks babe for the support. If you can see behind us it was quite crazy they said there were 5,000 runners and 7,000 people there in total

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THE ICING ON THE CAKE

About an hour after I got home from the race this was delivered to my door. A few months ago I helped a lady whose car was on fire (posted a few posts ago if you don't know what I'm talking about). Now mind you that was in February and she just happened to send this to me on race day with a note that read "Thanks again for saving my life, hope you are well - Diane"! Soooo sweet and so unexpected. I kept telling Shayne how I just wanted to eat fruit and nothing else sounded good so this was perfect.

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I couldn't end this post without writing a quick blurb about DDS idol (thanks Ally for the pic :) Every year the dental school does this huge production where they make a total mockery of American Idol and it is absolutely hilarious. A lot of time and money goes into it and the winners even get paid. We went last year and had a blast so of course were not about to miss it again this year. Wish I had more pics. Anyway, quite a fun and eventful weekend at the Perry household - thanks for stopping by!