15th Birthday!!

I just don't know how I am the mother of a 15 year old!!!  Where has the time gone?

My kids get a party every other year.  They know on party years they don't get as many presents.

Because she had alot of people that normally come (I mean our Ohana alone is 10 kids! Then we have to add in her team at dance which is 13 kids - but I knew being the only day this month we didn't have dance on a saturday most of the team would have already had plans - which was true...)

So we choose bowling since that seemed the most cost effective.

 

Her with her friend that doesn't go to her school anymore.  They are so cute together!

 

She didn't know HOW the heck she got a spare!

 Opening presents. 

 She really loves those oreo candy bars!

 Her friend got her a really nice bracelet and earring set!

 Can't go wrong with art supplies!

 

 The theme was mason jars - but really the only part of the theme was on her invitations and the goody bags!  But since we didn't really have decorations we spent a little more on the goody bags and put the good candy in it.  All of her favorites!

 On her actual birthday yesterday!!  We just got this new pair of LuLaRoe's and she was excited to wear cup cake leggings to school!

 These glasses!  She's had them since she was 7.  She used to wear them to school.  Now she just wears them for a picture and leaves them at home.

Back when she was 7!!! My how time has passed!

 I have an album on Facebook of every Jan 28th and her in her birthday hat for that year.  My husband asked how long I was going to keep making the birthday hats for the kids and I told him - "originally I planned to stop at 18, but I can't totally see me keeping it going longer!!"

 Her OWN rain jacket.  Now she can stop stealing mine!

Can't go wrong with chocolate!

 She found a pair of glasses in her room and we have no idea who they belonged to.  But they are mens sunglasses.  She's been wearing them because she feels "cool" in them.  SO I made sure to get her a pair of her own girl sunglasses! :) her face.  Kills me.  She knew EXACTLY why I got her them.  To replace the ones I didn't like! :p

 This is the only gift she actually asked for.  She was no help in the present department this year. 

My husbands 40th #merica birthday party!

My Ohana loves a good theme party!  The last two times my husband has had a birthday party the theme was Redneck Games (he wanted to make it an annual thing - but moving after the 2nd year right after (like two days after) made that hard for the 3rd year.).  This year he decided to go with #merica!  

His actual birthday is the first few days of January so we celebrated with Pizza and cake on his actual birthday and then celebrated in a big way on Saturday!

 This was at dinner on his actual birthday.

 Not 40 candles but we made due! :)

 These two guys flew in friday morning to surprise Tim for his birthday.  We have known them and their wives for 17 years!  They were stationed together in Alaska all at the same time for each of their first duty stations. They all married Alaska girls.  We are spread out across 3 different states but we get together as often as we can.  (they are who we vacationed with in Cancun a year ago!)

 We got his outfit from Amazon.  I LOVED it.  I love that at Christmas he can wear great pants and reuse it!!

 

 My little family!  It was so warm on Saturday.  70 degrees!!!

 Ya'll his shoes were the best!  I said if you are going to wear a hipster suit, you have to have boat shoes with it!

 We held the party at a brewery about an hour from our house.  You pay by the ounce.  They give you a card that you can either pre-load with money (which is what we did and everyone just shared two cards to get what they wanted) or you can open a tab.  This way you aren't paying for beer you may not like. So you pay for a little test and then decide what you actually want based on that sip.

 The facility is really nice, they had wifi which was a plus for our kids.

 West Point is a cute little town.

 What the beer dispenser looked like.

 

 Our friends started showing up and of course they started "lei'ing" him.  This one was so pretty!!!

 

  Kids playing the switch.

 My ladies and me.  I'm telling you, we don't back down or shy away from a theme!

 We hired Korey Rose to play.

  All the guys.  Tim's dad was wearing the same outfit because the first outfit we bought was WAY too small for Tim, so his dad wore it.  He didn't take us seriously about the theme.

 My Ohana!!! Love them!

 This is the outside the the brewery.  The kids played out here alot, thankfully it was gated on both sides so we didn't have to worry too much.

 At the end of the night, kids were playing go fish.

This picture was from when he was opening presents.  I'm not sure what was said or what was being opened but the sheer joy on my husbands face just warms my heart.  He had such a blast and our friends are just the best to have come out and celebrated his 40 years on this earth!