.happy birthday Amy!.

I got to celebrate Amy Kleinbach’s 40th birthday with her tonight at Anthony’s! I missed out on the afternoon wine tasting tour, but joined the group for dinner. Always a delicious dinner there and fun to celebrate Amy with friends – Pam, Jessica, Kinuyo, Bonnie, Keri, Stacey, Kara, & Martha. We even got to enjoy the Lighted Boat Parade as it went past!

Amy gets to turn 40 on 12/12/12 – what could be so bad about that?! Even though we didn’t get to celebrate in Vegas like she’s originally talked about – we had a great time anyway. Love you Amy!

.surprise!.

I wanted to do something special for my Mom for her birthday, so I invited a bunch of her friends and our family to surprise her for lunch at Tagaris Winery in Richland. I’ve been there a few times now and it always seems like a chic, classy place – like you’re not even in the Tri-Cities anymore!

I think she was pretty surprised! We had a fantastic lunch with some really special friends. Karen was gracious enough to take some pictures of everyone in front of this really awesome extra-large frame that was on the wall!

 

Mom with two of her dearest friends from high school – Brenda & Jerelyn.

 

Bonnie – a wonderful friend to our whole family and Mom’s co-worker.

 

The beautiful Baumann/Johnson gals – Kate, Kamryn, & Karen.

Kate & I – love her!

 

Kamryn kept us giggling the whole time, as usual! She loved to twirl around, climb on the chairs, and tease us! She wasn’t totally sure about everyone, but warmed up to us before too long. I think whenever she sees Mom & I, she thinks we’re going to take her or Kate is going to leave her with us!

Mom & Grandma – Grandma was so thrilled to help surprise Mom. So cute!

 

I love this picture of Mom & I!

 

Kate, me, Amber, & Kim

 

Kamryn LOVED Amber…adored her! It was so cute!

 

Happy 60th Birthday Mom – so glad to get to celebrate with you for two weeks! I’m glad some of your dearest friends could come help us celebrate today too! Love you!

.mom’s birthday weekend.

For Mom’s birthday, she wanted to go to the Northern Quest Resort & Casino. We headed to Spokane on Saturday morning…Mom & I got our nails done while Dad got his first ever pedicure! WOW! We made a few other stops and then met up with Melissa & Ryan and went out to Northern Quest. We got settled into our rooms – beautiful – and Melissa gave Mom her first gift!

A *60* birthday tiara – perfect for the casino! Hope it brings us good luck!

 

We played a few slots and then had dinner at the buffet.

 

We went back to the slots after dinner and ran into Mom’s friend Brenda! How fun!

We found the Sex and the City machines and played there for about 2 1/2 hours! I won my money back that I’d lost earlier and then some!

 

Up $90! YEAH!

 

I went to bed in the black…

unlike these two.

 

 

My Mom was up A LOT!

 

On Sunday morning, we hit the buffet again and then tried the slots one more time. We went back to the Sex and the City ones and I lost what I’d made plus some. :’( Boo.

Mom ended up winning about $500! AWESOME!
I think she enjoyed the weekend there – it was a fun little getaway to celebrate her birthday! Happy Birthday Mom! 60 looks good on you!

.go mariners!.

Melissa and Ryan gave Dad Mariner’s tickets for his birthday! It had been a few years since I’d been to Safeco Field, so it was fun to see a game. Baseball isn’t my most favorite thing, but I’m a fan of people watching, so…

I ended up standing up at the top of our section and taking a lot of pictures…and people watched. :)

Melissa and I were soooo excited for Shishkaberries!

 

I loved getting to play with my camera and lens…I don’t get many opportunities to play!

        

King Felix’s section (the pitcher)

      

Ichiro!

     

They got great seats! We went with Ryan’s parents, Michelle & Steve.

 

Shishkaberries!

more Ichiro…it ended up being one of his last games as a Mariner!

 

      

They won! It was by a lot –- but I don’t remember the score! Obviously I was too busy people watching!

The Mariner Moose!

 

      

   

Fun evening and a fun way to celebrate Dad’s birthday!

.happy 70th birthday Dad!.

My Dad turned 70 yesterday! It seems impossible!
We went to Tacoma to spend the weekend with Melissa & Ryan. We surprised Dad by going to a favorite restaurant on the Tacoma waterfront: Harbor Lights.

    

I was excited to go to Harbor Lights too, since I’d never been, but had heard my parents talk about it for my whole life! About 15+ years ago, my Mom, Dad, Grandma, & I were going to Tacoma for something and had reservations at Harbor Lights. Melissa had stayed home to go to a birthday party and stay with friends. When we were between Othello & Royal, we got a call that Melissa broke her collarbone while playing softball at the birthday party. We had to turn around and never made it to Harbor Lights.

We met Melissa and Ryan there and had a great seafood dinner!

The Tacoma waterfront was so pretty (who would’ve ever thought I’d say Tacoma was pretty??!), so we tried to take some pictures.

        

Happy Birthday Dad – 70 looks pretty good on you!