Happy Birthday to ME!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to each of you!

In honor of my birthday, I've decided to post something (amazing, huh?).

I've already had so many fun things I've done for my birthday. I've gone for a pedicure (love them!), went to dinner at 5 guys burgers and fries (yum!), and went to see a movie. I also have enjoyed having Jeff's sister Aileen and her family in town this weekend, along with Jeff's aunt Marilyn and cousin Jenny in town.
Jane, Susan, Aileen, Aunt Marilyn, Jenny, and Aunt Carol and I had a day out. We had so much fun shopping, eating, and laughing yesterday. Read more about Marilyn here. Went to Tai Pan and found some treasures, then to Gardner Village for more shopping and lunch. It was great.

Then I hosted dinner last night and had Jeff's family over. We put the trampoline cover back on (took it down for the winter) and the kids had a blast bouncing all over the place. Here's the 11 cousins that were all together. We missed you Katie & Jack! They had a ball. I made "Herbed Chicken in Puff Pastry" for dinner. I'll post it on my recipe blog soon. It was yummy!

Looking forward to lunch with my girlfriends today - I'll post more soon!

We Love GE!

Jeff works for GE Healthcare {General Electric}. Tonight was an Open House for their facility. They had tours of the different buildings and factory. It may not sound that exciting - but it was great! Since Aileen has been in town, and we've been not only trying to feed all 18 of us, but entertain {the hardest part} 11 little ones! So our huge crew descended upon Jeff's office!
They had a huge tent set up with all different kinds of carnival games for the kids with prizes galore. All the churros, cotton candy and sno cones you could eat as well. The kids thought they'd died and gone to heaven!

Then we went inside Jeff's building and they had tons of sandwiches and a tour of the different kinds of X-ray machines they make at this facility. A great dinner!






We went to another building and they had fabulous face painting and cheese and cracker trays. The kids had a ball picking their designs. Sofie refused to have hers painted, but everyone else did - including Reed {football}.
We didn't even make it to the last building that had brownies, cookies, and balloon animals! Definitely next year. We love that GE is so good to their employees and their families. They do activities that involve the families {and are typically free} 3-4 times a year, and even more for just the employees.
Believe it or not, somewhere in my archives of photos I have one of my friend Amy and me with our faces painted. Amy was a turtle {we still don't know why} and I had a rainbow on my face. Mine wasn't sparkly or nearly as fabulous as Bella's :(