Birthday Wishes and Hometown Dreams

Well, it's been a week since my last post! Strange, I know. I've had a little setback with a terrible sinus infection and vertigo. I'm off work today to recover, and I thought this was a great time to update everyone on the week.

Russ and I went home last weekend as one last visit before Russ starts the dreaded "House Medicine Rotation." It just so happened that we celebrated Lee's 23rd birthday too! Russ and I informed him that he is officially "getting old." We reassured him that we were certainly older by our comments beginning with, "I remember when I was 23..." Oh dear! Anyway, we cooked out Saturday night on Daddy's new grill in honor of Leeroy. Lee's mom came in town with cake to celebrate with us.

Daddy and Dude enjoying the pleasant weather and "supervising" the cook!

Look at those monstrous steaks! They were HUGE...and DELISH! Great job Russ!

The birthday boy had the honor of carrying those ginormous steaks inside.

We had a lovely steak dinner complete with Rhonda's yummy green beans, and Mama's sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, and salad. Then it was time for....

The cake!

A gigantic strawberry cake! Woo hoo!

Kristin cutting the cake as we all hold out our plates.

The pieces were already scored and they were huge! That didn't bother me one bit!

However, Mama and Kristin are now on this "wedding diet" and enjoyed their sugar free Jello cup. I was just appalled! Until I learned that Mama had lost 20 pounds this month.

Yummy puddin'!

Lee opened his gifts, which mainly contained gift cards to various places. What do you get a 23 year old who has everything?

My card sang Brad Paisley's Mud on the Tires. I thought it appropriate since Lee has taken us TWICE to see Brad Paisley.

I forgot to mention that Saturday afternoon while the boys watched TV, napped, studied, and whatever else, the girls went on a shopping spree at Kirkland's. Their fall decor is just too cute. Mama bought several things, at mine and Kristin's insistence, to decorate her home. Mama and I put some up Sunday before we left town.

Cute pumpkins - the light up one is Mama's favorite. She picked that out herself!

I just thought this was a cute way to decorate her new table.

Kristin put together her adorable centerpiece.

And, this is everyone's favorite! There was only one left and Mama snatched it!

We had a great weekend, and we are salivating over this coming up weekend when college football begins! Yay!