M3 Birthday Party!!!

Paul and I returned home from Grammy's late Friday evening, unpacked, and went to bed, after, that is we slathered ourselves down with Aloe Vera Gel to treat the sunburns we received at the lake.

Saturday we did our normal household chores and then attended my cousin's wedding in the afternoon. We made a brief appearance at the reception because we had major plans that evening:

We met the M3 crew for dinner at Dave and Busters, has a great time playing games after dinner and then all returned to Kelley and Chuck's for a birthday celebration.

Dinner was fabulous and the company was even better. After stuffing ourselves we made our way down to the midway where we proceeded to play games and challenge each other. I learned a very important lesson: Valerie is not above banging her hips on the machines to make more coins drop out. She totally cracks me up and I was so afraid we were going to get kicked out. Paul and I wound up racking up 1200 tickets to spend in the "prize store" but after looking things over we decided to save them for a future playdate.

We all headed back to Kelley's where she had made us a fabulous birthday cake. Chuck, Valerie, Gary, and I all share July birthdays so it was a major celebration. We fired up the margarator and had a great time with each other. Anton decided to take on the daunting task of teaching the girls to play poker. Bless his heart, he was trying to be so serious and precise and we were just not having that at all. We wound up wrapping up the evening of fun around 1am!!

Sunday, Paul and I attended church and then came back home to rest from our full week/weekend.

So that was our week in a nutshell!!! Hope everyone else had a fun-filled weekend with family and friends.