birthdays

This has been such a busy month for birthday's in my family. Three kids, one aunt, one uncle, two cousins, and a few friends in-between makes for a month of parties, cards, too much cake, and lots of presents!

To start off the month in our family, Leif turned 20! I guess his idea of "last-night-as-a-kid" fun included a TP raid on his own house. Why you say? We're still trying to figure that out. However, we foiled his plan and ended up shooting him and his friends with airsoft guns around the block before he did any damage. And this year he seems to have morphed into a Chandler Bing look-alike.

Bubba was more than thrilled to be a year older. Less than a week later, we decided to turn the TP tables on him for his birthday. Saran wrap and TP were wrapped all over his bed. Under the saran wrap....his presents. No way to get to them without "cleaning up"! This special day marked the new Utler countdown: 20, 19, 18, 17........10.

Striking a pose in all of his 17-year-old glory. And because he loves his hair.

That lovely bed of his signed with love from the TP-ers.

Along came my lovely day. I finally turned 20. Seems like yesterday I was thinkin' just how cool it would be to no longer be a teenager. Now I am 20 and I suddenly don't feel so big (or cool for that matter) anymore. Weird. I guess I'll just have to grow into it.

Anyway, it seems every year my birthday gets better. I got everything I wanted because I have the best family and friends in the world! I came home from work with a phone full of birthday messages and homemade soul food! Fried chicken..mmmm.

This bag was so huge...with the funniest card ever. I love how much people know me!

I got a new emergency kit since someone stole my last one.
I was so excited...this kit was better than my first one (as my sister Jeri is pointing out!)

My "cakes"...ginormous chocolate chip cookies in the shape of a heart, covered in vanilla ice cream and topped with whipping cream.

And these days no birthday is complete without airsoft guns. Kanoa actually shot her after that...it hurt!

I needed a new one of these because someone decided to steal my other one. Now that I have an empty trunk it seemed like a perfectly good excuse to take a picture.

Birthday cake done family style....grab a spoon and dig in!

What a better way to top off dessert than by watching American Idol? (By the way, did anyone else find it AWESOME to hear Bebe and Cece on the Wednesday night show?) And to finish the night off I got to see Spiderman 3 in an empty theater for free...sweet! I actually really liked the movie too. Since we had nothing better to do for 30 minutes before the movie, me and Jess decided to run around the lobby taking pictures with the movie displays and in the arcade. Here's a small snapshot of our photo shoot. I laughed so hard!

Yeah, if you look really hard you can see that I'm trying to shoot her.

It looks like I'm kissing him...I'm not!

Birthday spankings with a candy bar on top

I love my life!