I hope you all had a great weekend! Most of my time was spent designing blogs. We’re going to be putting up some new pre-made templates on Etsy this week. I’m so excited! We’re going to try to put 1 or 2 new pre-made templates up every month from now on. I even managed to quickly whip up a new design for my blog and decided to go with a 3 column theme.

I’d love to have sponsors on my blog now that I have a 3 column theme. I don’t have all the details yet but I just wanted to see if anyone would be interested in being a sponsor on my blog first before I proceed with this so please email me or leave a comment and let me know.

My sister’s first day at work was this weekend. She works as a bagging chick at the grocery store. My mom texted me telling me she saw her at the store and I just knew I had to go see for myself. I never go to this grocery store anymore since I like Fry’s better than Safeway. So I went inside and spotted my blond sister bagging groceries. She was so into it so I couldn’t get her attention. I tried thinking of things I needed at the store and ended up buying ground turkey and finally caught my sister’s attention when I was checking out. She looked at me like she was not enjoying it at all. I felt bad for her but it’s a job and she will definitely enjoy her first paycheck.

I just love my parents so much! I really do think they’re awesome and I love it when people tell me that they think my parents are so cool and fun to be with. So the other night after we left my parents’ house I just had to text my mom and tell her.

Every time I came home from college or a trip, my family was always there at the airport standing there waving their hands the minute they saw me and plant wet kisses on my face.

Every time I came home from camp when I was a teenager, they always surprised me with a small gift or it was just rearranging my bedroom.

So my parents knew my sister wasn’t having a great weekend with having to work 2 days and longer hours. While my sister was at work today, they cleaned up her room and finally hung up the frames that I got her for her Birthday and graduation. They also brought her dinner to work. Can we say awww? Okay, I admit it…they have spoiled us rotten but we’re so lucky to have them as parents and we do appreciate them. When I’m rich someday, I’ll pay it back to them. For now, they have already gotten the best 50th & 60th Birthday party.

Consider this “Parents Appreciative Week”! :)

After sending Tyler’s mom flowers on Friday afternoon for Mother’s Day, I received a text message from my sister asking if we could have a sleepover. I couldn’t believe she was asking me this because we’re 8 years apart. I’ve gotten a few “you’re too old to hang out with” comments from her before. So as you can see, we we don’t hang out with each other. We do see and talk with each other at family gatherings. I just know that she would choose to hang out with other friends or her boyfriend over me. So when I got the text message from her, I knew I couldn’t say no because when was she going to want to do this again?

We watched movies and had a great time. Now I think I’m officially cool to hang out with! ;)

Saturday I spent the majority of the day working on websites. I wish there were more hours in the day so I could get a lot more done! A friend of mine who lives only 5 minutes away is now working with me coding templates so I can get a lot more done now. It’s nice and as you can see I have more time to play with iPhone photo apps!

I love this picture of us from my wedding day.

On Mother’s Day we went on a family bike ride around the neighborhood (5.49 miles, woohoo). I got a sunburn…of course. My mom always make dinner for us and we never get the chance to make her dinner so I found the recipe for Sour Cream Noodle Bake from The Pioneer Woman’s website. It was quick & easy to make and best of all…it was delicious!

Earlier that day, Tyler and I made flower pot desserts also found from The Pioneer Woman’s website. My Grandma created a big dirt cake out of a huge pot years ago and I remember how much fun it was so I thought this was perfect to create small pot desserts for each one of us. It was a nice cool dessert to enjoy after dinner since it was really hot that day.

I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day weekend!

[Read Part #1 about the surprise Birthday party we threw for both of my parents]

My sister texted me when they were close to arriving and I got all the guests into the living room for the surprise. It felt like a really long wait! AND finally they rang the doorbell!

They were shocked and definitely surprised when I opened the door! My dad later said he thought he saw a ghost when he saw his best friend, Craig, standing there. Craig had been lying to my dad all day while on the road. Dad thought he was arriving the next day on Sunday from Seattle but he came earlier for the party. It was such a nice feeling to know how many people love my parents and were able to come and be part of the celebration!

The 2nd surprise was the arrival of my aunt, uncle (mom’s brother), cousin and her husband. They walked right in the middle of the party. Supposedly the surprises were too much for my mom and she had to leave in the middle of the surprise to go to the bathroom, haha!

Cousin Dana, Aunt Lee, and Mom

Mom with her inflatable cane & Uncle Don (her brother)

There were tons of finger foods, margaritas, wine & a keg! We gathered around outside for my parents to open their cards & gifts. Later on in the night, somehow a “keg stand” came up in the conversation. My parents had no clue what a keg stand was. After we explained it to them…. you can guess what they wanted to do!

Now how many people can say they did their first keg stand at their own 50th & 60th Birthday party?! This was PRICELESS!

The other awesome thing we had at the party was a photo booth that didn’t cost us a dime! I contacted two of my parents’ friends who are photographers and asked if we could borrow their camera to set up on a tripod. They were awesome and even brought a satin sheet to use as the backdrop. We had the photo booth set up in the garage. Haley and I made the sign so people knew where the photo booth was. In the garage there was a table with all these silly props that my sister and I had bought from Party City and we used some other things we found in the garage as props too. It was fantastic and so much fun! Over 200 photos were taken and I uploaded them to my computer before returning the camera back to the photographers.

I selected a few photos to show you all below in this post… be sure to click on them to view as a slideshow.

The party was just the beginning…. we continued to have more parties throughout the week! It was by far the best week of 2010!