February Birthday Fun

And just like that, we are another year older...
Chris celebrated his 42nd birthday with 3 of his favorite things:
Friends, Cornhole, and Beer :)

The birthday boy and his biggest fans

Emma and Thea playing inside

Let the  backyard cornhole tournament begin!

Moving ahead to the following weekend, it was my turn to celebrate my 38th birthday.
Birthday Bunco Luau at the Zimmermann's

 

 Mel and Emma

Casey, Madds, Jenna, and Mel

 

Cheers to a happy birthday and great friends!

 

Bunco time

Look who the big winner was!

Making a wish 

60+ degrees on my birthday! The perfect day to enjoy some vino outside in my new birthday wine glass. :)

MLK Weekend Girls' Trip to Bruges

The theme of my 4th Annual MLK Weekend Girls' Trip was: Huge in Bruges

The weekend definitely lived up to that!  :)

Here are 7 of my lovely friends ready to board our plane to Brussels 

 What do you to while waiting for a train to Bruges? 

Play Heads Up!

The silliness was in full force on our train ride north

 Casey and I enjoying our first Bruges Zot of the weekend

 AMAZING seafood dinner at a Michelin Star restaurant

 Jenna, Mel, and me

 Berri, Madds, & Sherri

 The 8 of us!

 Berri & Jenna shopping for chocolate

 Sherri, Casey, & Berri posing in the Market Square

 Casey's Auntie Christine, who lives near Bruges, was the best tour guide around the city Saturday morning!

 Beer and fries stop for lunch

The Halve Maan Brewery was the perfect place to spend a rainy afternoon

 Berri, our talented waitress

 Mel, Casey, Maria, and I are ready for dinner

 MUSSELS!

 After dinner in the Market Square

 Artsy group pic on Sunday morning

 Beautiful Bruges Bridge

 Casey, Sherri, Jenna, and I on our carriage tour

 More fries!

We met up with some more NES friends for Sunday afternoon drinks at Bourgogne des Flandres

 The view of our (awesome) hotel from my Sunday afternoon seat

 A very fitting sign outside Bourgogne des Flandres

Emma's 12th Birthday

Emma Louise kicked off her 12th birthday with a slumber party with some of her friends. The girls played games, ate, and laughed a lot!

 

 All cuddled up in Emma's room to watch a movie

 On Wednesday she was sound asleep when we woke her up for her birthday donut

Some of Emma's pals decorated her locker

 Birthday selfie :)

 Opening presents at Miss Mel's house

Birthday dinner at Dom's 

Cheers to the birthday girl who we love to pieces!

 

MCT Jungle Book

Winter Break included another Missoula Children's Theater performance.  Exactly 5 years ago to the day, Emma was a monkey in The Jungle Book. This year she was part of the Wolf Pack.

 Camden was cast as the Master of the Jungle, Hathi

 Both kids did a fabulous job and had a blast!