Weekend Update: Miami Edition

Ohhhh, buddy, what a weekend! A long time ago, when we were discussing a friend's upcoming (big) birthday, someone jokingly said "we should celebrate in Miami!" And then next thing I know I am on an airplane down to Miami for the weekend!

I dropped the boys off at school Friday morning and then ran a few quick errands before heading over to meet the group.  First I had to pack my carry on bag:

We all met  at a house and waited on the birthday girl to arrive....

...and cheered like crazy when she showed up...

Then it was off to the airport where I got to sit next to Sally on our flight!

We grabbed a cab once we landed and headed to the hotel.

Pretty much as soon as we checked in, we headed down to the pool bar for a quick pre-dinner cocktail. 

My two roomies.... it is comical how awful I was at mirror selfies....

Some of the girls before dinner...

a toast at dinner!

It was a fun night with a VERY fun group!

Saturday we woke up and sorted out which cabana we wanted and then promptly ordered our bottles!

The sun was shining and it was nice and warm-- we were all happy girls!

Quite possibly my favorite picture of the day trip... there was a bachelor party taking a group shot with some of our girls...Shelia decided she wanted in.... she is down there in the bottom corner.... makes me laugh so so so hard....

We cleaned up Saturday night and headed out to dinner!

My sweet loves....

I drank half a red bull at dinner-- something an already hyper person just shouldn't do-- and I was WIRED for several hours after dinner.  We ended up going to LIV for a little bit and then going to bed-- so much fun.

We woke up Sunday morning with one of these....

 ...and then headed home!

 It was SUCH a fun trip  with wonderful friends...and it was really nice to come home to my sweet husband and boys.  I missed this wild crew!!!!


 

Cheers to 40 years!

My sweet AMAZING parents celebrated 40 years of marriage on December 28th.  I am SO proud of them and their commitment to each other.  Talk about setting a good example for their children!

We celebrated with a dinner at the country club this week.  It was a great night celebrating a HUGE accomplishment!

I made a video of my parents with pictures and toasts friends made for them... Eddie caught a picture of dad tearing up....

And, I asked some of my parents good friends if they would be interested in making the trip down from Michigan to surprise my parents...and they did!!! This was my dad's best man, so after the video, I said "I want to make a quick toast..." and he walked in the room and said, "wait wait wait...I did the toast 40 years ago and I want to do it again tonight!" It was pretty awesome...

Then we moved in to the kitchen for dinner!

AMAZING food.... we all ate too much!

I am trying to upload the video, but I am sure it won't work....

Cheers to 40 years, mom and dad!!!!!

 

NYE 2014

We had a reallllly fun New Year's Eve! I used to not care much about NYE, and was fine with going to bed at a normal hour and waking up the next day to see it was a new year- yay! But the past few years, some good friends of our have had a FABULOUS party and it is now one we look forward to all year long!

We went to a cocktail party at a friend's house before going over to the party at another friend's house.

My little stud muffin

The party was fully catered and had yummy food....and lots and lots of drinks.  

I had a blast with my sweet friends-- definitely thankful for my friends in the New Year!

MY SALLY:

This next picture sums up the rest of the night...all a little blurry....

But I do know I loved on my friends...

 ....the boys had a big time...

....and there was a selfie stick....

And 2015 started with a trip to Sunrise... which didn't help me. At all.