We celebrated Rob's big day in a few ways.
- We almost bought a house. The process went like this: We put in an offer, negotiations happened, an agreement was reached, sellers backed out. Repeat 3 or 4 times. We walk away and decide just to keep renting Rob's parent's home. (AND WE'RE SO HAPPY WE DIDN'T BUY THAT HOUSE NOW!!!)
- With the weight of being almost-home owners off our our shoulders, we felt footloose and fancy free. We spent some extra time in MN, visited Rob's family in Kansas, and Rob got a few extras for his camera to play with before he started back up at the firm.
- And for Rob's ACTUAL big day, we had chocolate chip banana pancakes (arranged into an artistic portrait of the birthday boy) and then went to see Joy, Darrell, and Co. in Austin.
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| Birthday Pancakes on the "You Are Special" plate. |
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| Chocolate Birthday Cookie a la Joy. 30 candles...I was worried we'd set the house on fire! |
Before we left Austin we got to cheer Joy and Darrel on during their 3rd Annual Triathlon.
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| Darrell rocking the purple swim cap |
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| Joy is feeling good |
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| Ready to ride |
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| Still smiling even though it was BLAZING hot out on the road |
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| Finished! |
Rob is such a wonderful, hardworking, handsome, fun man. He is a great father--every night when he gets home from work the girls start squealing and RACE to climb into his arms. He is a great husband--he supports me and loves me unconditionally. And he is my best friend who can always make me laugh. I'm SO GLAD we get to spend all of our crazy lives together!
2 comments:
Wow I feel like I have missed out on so much going on in your lives. I didn't know you guys had been trying to buy a house. That happened to us in Iowa quite a few times before we moved up there and every day we are so glad that it never worked out. Even when we got here, we thought we would try but never liked a place enough to put an offer in. And now we are split. I'm glad we aren't tied down yet but Mark goes back and forth :) So Kansas and Austin were stops, when's Arizona on your stop list :) Can't wait to see you guys in 3 weeks!!!
Can't believe that Rob is 30! Joy and Darrell are so cool. I didn't know they ran an annual triathlon. Catching up on you! Sending you love from Southern California.
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