Fun filled weekend!

My weekend started off with a fabulous date with my husband! He told me earlier in the week to get a baby-sitter so we could go out to celebrate by B-day. I was excited, thinking we would do dinner and a movie, which is great! While we were sitting in P.F. Chang's happy hour (which is the BEST!) I asked Kent what time the movie started. He let me know that we weren't going to a movie, we were going to do something else downtown. I was shocked and amazed. Granted, Kent is the best secret keeper that I know. (He didn't even tell his mom or best friends that he was going to propose to me.) BUT, he does not like surprises. After me playing a game of 20 questions I finally figured out he bought tickets to the Jason Naldean/ Brooks and Dunn concert! It was great! It was so nice to sit there and listen to the music and know every single song, and just be able to enjoy it! Thanks Kent, I love you! After some errands and a short nap on Sunday, we had a "party" at our house. It's always a party when the Phillips' fam gets together. Thank you to everyone, it was a great day!

Me and all of my helpers, Owen is watching with Kelly.

Another fabulous surprise! I am going to be RICH! Sandy and G & G Petrousek got me an espresso machine! Can you believe it? I am beyond ecstatic, I am going to save so much money and be soooo happy with all that caffeine at my disposal! Thank you, thank you!

(This uploaded out of order)

Sunday morning we got up (on my actual B-day) and headed to Bloomsday. This is a 7.4 mile race in Spokane that people come to from all over. It's a little bit crazy. It starts at 9am. and when we were finally able to cross the start line at 9:20, 16,000 people were already in front of us. This may surprise you, but we did not win the race. But as I told our kids, we won the race because we finished it! It was a beautiful day and we were able to jog/walk the whole way and just take in all the people around us. This is the place to people watch; kinda amazing, yet scary. The funniest thing I saw was a cute-petite girl's T-shirt that said on the back: 'I am regretting the Taco Bell that I ate last night.' I saw many things that just made me laugh out loud. (Besides just the normal Spokane peeps).

This is quite a lovely shot that my MIL took, (she stayed with the kids, Thanks Sandy)! I think I had been awake for approx. 10 minutes. Kent usually wakes me up when he is done showering, but for some reason that didn't happen and I slept in. Lookin' Good! Ready to run!

5 more days until we board the ship for our cruise! Megan, our fabulous baby-sitter gave me this idea. I went to the dollar store and got gifts for each of the kids for each night that we're gone. Most of it is arts and crafts and stuff they can do with my sister while we're gone. There will be little notes too, so they know we're thinking of them. I am excited to hear how it goes with this fun idea!