Food, Family and Birthday Fun...

Food, family and fun...all summer long!

Looking over my camera roll validates the notion...kids eat all day long in the summer!!!

The new Wendy's for a lunch treat, while running birthday errands.

We visited the cute coffee shop in Old Town Helotes called The Cracked Mug, just because.

We celebrated two terrific daddies, John and my dad, Papa.

Of course, we celebrated with food, homemade chicken fingers and hand cut fries.

And then the birthday fun began...

We went swimming for Brieley's birthday.

Savannah turned 14!!

The only thing she wanted for her birthday was her bedroom re-done. All of her gifts were room decor.

She wanted to get her free birthday treat from Starbucks for breakfast.

More food...birthday dinner! One of everyone's favorites, flautas!

Nana's helping feed this crew too.

Birthday buddies! My sister's birthday is the same week.

Brownies are better than cake.

The next day was like a HGTV show! Can you really make over a room in just one day!?! Why yes you can!

Here's some before...I forgot to take pictures of the room set up normally.

Her mural...

We had lots of girl power working on this room.

And the after...Bye bye little girl room, Hello high school room!

We still need a few more details. She wants to put photos of friends and family all around the "S" and we need a few things for the shelf over the bed. I like it...it's a very cool and calming room. She's very pleased and proud.

For my sister's birthday we headed to Grimaldi's for food of course!

Being goofy...

There's me...I snap a selfie from time to time, just to remind myself I was actually there too!

Although the birthdays are done until October, I'm sure the summer will continue to be filled with food, family and fun!

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