Minnicks On Their Road To Ever After: Birthday Girl & A Weekend With Family!

I do recognize it’s almost March and I am just not posting about Mom’s birthday in January HOWEVER, little miss did not get back from cruising and make it to her party until almost Mid- February- Note I refuse to take full responsibility for this slacking behavior!

Anyway, I was counting down the days until their arrival and finally it came… the best part of any week..Friday afternoon! I was so excited to drive home and greet them and to my surprise I essentially found a party for myself!

Mom had spoiled me galore- Bacardi Rum from their cruise, flowers from daddy, a matching serving platter to match my bird cookie jar she bought for me back in October as a house warming gift and to top it off, she re-filled my candy dish!

This woman, I swear!

Oh and there’s more not pictured; multiple pairs of earrings, bracelets, a ring, a scarf, a “Lou’s Bar” shot glass from he cruise, a pantry full of groceries and my favorite- stinky cheese straight from Philadelphia!

Who’s birthday was it again?

Then again I can’t say I’m surprised, this is the same woman who sent her mother flowers on her own birthday!

Anyway, Friday night we got ready, waited for Tara’s arrival (from working in Lawrenceville that week) and headed to Red Sky, my favorite Piano Bar and mom’s first time at a dueling piano bar!

Tara and I soon decided “we need to request a song for mom”…

What a sweet intention right… Well mom is as bad as Alex and I at knowing the name and artist of songs but eventually mom picked the perfect song-

Your Song- by Elton John!

I swear this was not our intention, completely… I mean we knew it could happen but it was early in the night so i thought they would just play the song for us.. no such luck! They called her right up there but she was such a good sport!

On to the stage she went, even after my attempts of hiding her and non-verbally expressing to them the “heck no, finger slicing across throat motion”… Alex’s first words were “ohhhh you better go up there with her”!

So I ran close to the stage to take her pictures and videos, I partly joined her up there, right :)

Minimum for a song request is $5 but I figured they owed us one for the next song we picked!

The next day we took mom and Tara to one of Alex and I’s favorite lunch spots in the square… Willie Rae’s!

Tara is quite the social media guru believe it or not, especially for someone who deleted their Facebook account!

She taught Lou and I all about Twitter and follows some pretty clever celebrities, from what I hear at least, mom and I didn’t “get” over half of the jokes… This would have been super cute if Tara hadn’t refused to be in our pic-that girl!

Mom and I were ready to hit up the many ADORABLE, but mostly over-priced boutiques at the square but we gave in and let Tara spend all of ten minutes in a coffee Shop she spotted around the corner first! I was filled with jitters the whole 10 minutes waiting… we had to get Lou home and hop on some serious shopping!

We shopped until we dropped and Milly was thrilled for us to finally come home and so she could spend time with her best friend… Aunt Tara!

Ii swear those two have their own language when they get together… Milly as usual wants nothing to do with her mama when Tara is around!

That night we had Andy and Rachel over.. Notice; I called Rachel before they came over and kindly informed her it was “vest” day so that she didn’t feel out of place by Mom, Tara and I’s complete coincidence of all wearing vests’ that day…

She fell in line quite nicely… minus her typical weirdness!

Bless her.

OHHH and NEWS BREAK!

Luther came over for his first visit at the new house, which i was terrified about… mostly because this was Tuckers first time seeing Luther since he has been full grown and I was scared Tucker would… well you know, be Tuck.

Surprisingly, Tucker did REALLY well (YAY TUCK) and mill was as expected, out of the picture (literally) and too good for those boy’s…she’s so stuck up!

None the less we were very proud, relieved, parents!

Other news, Alex has literally been working weekend after weekend for over a month on our basement, bless him (more of that to come) but one morning while he was getting to it we found this surprise come out of the hose!

Little cylinders of ice!

The weather here has been awful, which I hear isn’t much different than anywhere else but I did snap a few pictures of the “not AS bad” days!

My busy little bee’s!

I don’t think it will ever get old to take pics of our backyard.. I’m still in love with every view!

One last thing I am very proud of lately…

Lou and I have decided to start eating out somewhere NEW once a week which as most of you know is quite a challenge for us seeing as “we know what we like and we like what we like”! However, so far we have absolutely loved it and it feels MUCH more like a “real date” for some reason!

I love it!