First Comes Love...

Today is Kevin's birthday and there is more than one reason to celebrate. A couple weeks ago he was offered a job at Amazon as a Senior Project Manager in the AWS division (Amazon Web Services).  I am so proud of the time and dedication he has made to his career in order to get to this place. Add to that a freshly minted 36 year old, and I feel brimming with reasons to celebrate! Since he worked today we joined him for lunch at the new digs.  The kids and I parked at Pacific Place and took a roundtrip monorail ride as well - a highlight for them!

It seems impossible, right?  But it's true!  Our baby is now a caring, thoughtful, and kind little six year old girl.

The kids celebrated my birthday this morning with breakfast in bed, and I'm off to Leavenworth with Steph and Kristin this weekend to celebrate. Thank you all for the kind Instagram messages and texts / calls so far today!

This year we celebrated Abigail's birthday with a pool party! (I seriously cannot get over how adorable this picture is) We are forunte to have two pools here in our community, so we decided that with a summer birthday (plus a little girl who learned how to swim this summer!) it'd be fun to celebrate there. Abigail invited all her friends and family (for the most part, I left the invite list up to her!) and we spent the afternoon playing in the pool, eating Jimmy John's and cake (a watermelon cake made by Mamie!), and opening presents.