Whirlwind Weekend

I know I need to post more cruise stuff but this last weekend was too much fun not to include in one huge post. Here we go...

Emery Elizabeth Carlson was born July 7th at 6:39 a.m. 6 pounds, 1 ounce, 18 inches long and DARLING!

Some of her first visitors that Thursday morning: her real Aunt Sara, "Aunt" Caysie, and "Aunt" Kala

Only Kenny would hold his daughter like the Heisman pose!

The beautiful Carlson family

How amazing does Jess look?!? Seriously. She gave birth 3 hours before this and looked incredible. I know I'm gonna be one huge, hot, sweaty mess. Can't wait... ;)

We all agreed she looked just like her mommy! Still a little mad at Emery though... we were supposed to be birthday buddies on the 10th but she decided to come on the 7th and share her birthday with her daddy and Fritzy. Poor Kenny will never have a birthday again... it's all about this little lady now!

I know the only people who care about these next 3 closet pictures will be Lora and Ashley so everyone else can keep scrolling past them...

On Friday I hit up the Target dollar section to see what teacher goodies they have set out so far. (Teachers love the dollar section of Target in July and August!) To my joy and excitement they had lots of cute organizing things for way cheap so I stocked up for a linen closet makeover.

Here's the before. I know it's not terrible but it just wasn't doing it for me.

And the after!!! LOVE IT.

Everything got sorted, purged, organized, then labeled. Here's a close up of the labels I used... just cheapy ring tags I've had forever from Office Max.

Friday I surprised Trent for our monthly surprise date. He was convinced I was taking him to the balloon festival at the Great Mall in Olathe. He even told people that we'd see them out there. But I had other plans for us- date night at the drive-in movie theater! The drive-in is down by the Paola/Osawatomie area and is SUPER cheap. For 7 bucks a person you get two movies in one night.

Since I was at Target earlier that day I stocked us up on movie candy!!

I also packed a cooler full of beverages for us.
My parents used to bring me and my brother here all the time as kids. It was just how I remembered it. We saw Green Lantern and X Men First Class. We really liked them both but we're suckers for comic book/super hero movies.

Movie popcorn is only $1.80. How could you not love this place?! This was Trent's first experience at the drive in and he was sold! I'm sure we'll be back quite often this summer.

After getting home from the drive-in at 2:30 a.m. we headed straight to bed because we had to be up first thing Saturday morning to head to Emporia. I had Kim's baby shower and Trent was going to hang at the motorcycle shop.

Kim and her shower hostesses

Kim with her mother-in-law and her mom

Baby McNeese got lots of cute things! Can't wait till he arrives in September!

We left Emporia that afternoon to head back to KC for a wedding of a long time family friend. We went with my parents but left after a few hours because the reception venue was HOT and with KC's heat wave we were dying! We headed home for a quick change of clothes and to grab the fur babies so we could go to the balloon festival Trent thought we were doing the night before ;)

Harlee barked hellos to everyone around us.

Bentley just sat and looked handsome like always ;) As long as he is getting petted he's a happy boy.

We are also suckers for hot air balloons since we celebrated our first anniversary with a ride.

They had really unique balloons- a pig that said "When Pigs Fly" haha.

Upside down Humpty-Dumpty

HUGE daisy
Panda bear

What we came to see- the night glow. At this they don't actually fly- they just all burn at the same time and it looks cool in the night sky. Picture is doing it no justice- it's way cooler in person.

Sunday morning we got up at 5:30 and headed back to the Great Mall with Jerad, Ashley, and Jeryn to see the balloons launch. Sadly it got cancelled cause of wind :( Didn't they know it was me and Ashley's birthday?! So this birthday girl went back home and went straight to bed since I'd had 10 hours of sleep in the last 3 days. Believe me- I needed that beauty sleep!

Trent gave me my present that afternoon and then surprised me with something I've been looking forward to for over a year and couldn't see when the day it came out cause we were on the cruise....

Transformers 3!!!! In 3D!!!! Transformers is my favorite movie. I watch it ALL THE TIME. It's always the first movie I pop in when I have a scrapbooking day. I don't know why I love it so much. I'm normally a Kate Hudson/Reese Witherspoon movie type of gal but there's just something about those Autobots and Shia that I love.

After the movie we met Ashley, Jerad, Jeryn, my mom and dad, my brother, and his girlfriend at Cheddar's for our birthday dinner.

Trent borrowed Ashley's huge cupcake cake pan to make our cake. And since we only had 20 candles at the house it looks like me and Ashley are only 20 this year. Next year's 21 should be fun then ;)

The birthday girls celebrating 26 and 31. I always wanted a twin sister to co-celebrate my birthday with. This is what it would be like if my twin sister was cuter, taller, and way more athletic than me ;)

What I wished for has already came true... can't tell you yet though... that's for another blog post. And NO I'm not pregnant- just wanted to make sure no one got their hopes up! Mom.

And no blog post is complete without a little picture of my favorite girl. She really liked Tio's cake and even told us "happy birthday" :) Being an aunt is the best!