Darrell's 30th Birthday Bash

Darrell turned 30 on July 5th.  We had a big party at our house on the 10th to celebrate.  Several of our closest family and friends came over to help celebrate.  Darrell woke up at five in the morning to smoke two briskets.  They ended up taking a lot longer to cook than he liked, but we eventually were able to eat them and they turned out great...even though he was disappointed in them. 

Our good friends Jacob and Rachel came to stay with us for the weekend and we loved having them here.  We were so happy they were able to make it.  Ryan and Ethan came over to hang out for the day.  Cade and Ethan had a blast hanging out and playing with ALL of Cade's toys.  At one point you couldn't even see the floor in his room.

Everyone else began showing up around five and we all hung out and visited.  There were washers set up in the backyard and margaritas were being made in the kitchen.  Once the sun went down, the mosquitoes got crazy.  They were horrible outside, so everyone made their way inside (for the next few days we were killing mosquitoes all throughout our house). 

At the end of the night, the kids, Ethan, Luke, and Cade decided to have a boxing match.  Then they got my dad (Pa Cade) and Jacob to wrestle with them.  Needless to say, Cade didn't have any trouble getting to sleep that night. 

We had a great time and really enjoyed hanging out with all of our family and friends.

This was the cake I had made for Darrell's birthday.  It had his favorite beer and favorite koozie.  I really wanted Lindsey to make it, but all of her baking things had been packed for Saudi.  So, I did the next best thing and ordered it from our favorite bakery, Jenny's.