Photo Friday!!

Lots of photo collages in this post! :)

This first pic is Malori with her mini cookie-cake + the fun Celebrate card I got her + hot chocolate from Cafe Evoke + Malori toasting with her Grey Goose Martini (easy dirty with extra olives) + the cute neon owl sack I put the cookie-cake in + "30 gifts for 30 years to open over 30 days" so it will be a Happy Birth-month! =)  Yay!

Malori with Sarah, Kelsey, Jennifer, and Missy - the girls from the NorthChurch "Young Professionals" group she leads!  (Standing outside Othello's Italian, where we had dinner.)

Malori and I... and Justin Bieber!  Caitlin and Patty got her those balloons just bc they thought it'd be funny.  It was. =)

(I met Malori at her house to give her her presents, then we had dinner at Othello's, then dessert/wine/coffee/etc. at Cafe Evoke... fun!!)

Celebrating the 4th of July with Dad's fam at the Peavlers' house.  The front of their house + Nancy posing with the "judges" of our patriotic coloring contest!  We also did a patriotic words search and word jumble. lol  I didn't win any of them. :(

When we got back, Josh and Rach and Agim and Ariel came over with their kids to watch the fireworks from Mom and Dad's driveway.  So of course, I got mom's fancy camera out and took some pics!  I think they turned out really cute!

Dad's colorful shirt stands out in these pics since everyone else is pretty much red, white, and blue! :)

Family pic + Jace and his Grandma + sister pic + fun fireworks!!

The guys & the girls!

Agim is just hilarious and fun!  I can see how he'd be a fantastic personal trainer.  Also hilarious was seeing everyone run when the neighbor's sprinklers came on. Kaden (their 6-year-old) was running away while taking off his shirt so he could run right back into it. lol  

Sidenote:  This is Jasmine's "kissy face" - and it is pretty fantastic!! :)

Jasmine clinging to her daddy on her first 4th of July!

And finally, a fun sister pic that turned out pretty good with the fireworks behind us! =)

It's been a fun week celebrating the BFF's birthday and July 4th, and being off work Wednesday through Friday.  I slept till noon yesterday, then went to see White House Down (awesomeness) with the fam, then we went to Nancy's.  Today, I slept in again and I'm about to go "help" Mom take care of Jace and Carter for a few hours.  I'm also gonna spend some time this weekend looking at doctoral programs at different colleges... so wish me luck with that!  Anyway, I wish you all a happy long weekend!! =)