Baby Eli's here!

the sweet Gwinn family of 3!

Jason and Andrea welcomed their sweet little boy into the world today! Eli Joseph Gwinn weighed 7lbs 8oz, was 22 inches long and is such a cutie!! Yay, we have a nephew and the kids have a cousin! how fun!

sweet lil eli and his sweet lil mamma!

picture day

matt's mom and i took the kids to get there pictures made today. we wanted some nice pictures of them in their outfits from John and Ashley's wedding. we got it! our blog header is one of the pictures taken and here are a few more! enjoy! :)

i had to share this one because it's such a perfect picture of claire,
she is always doing the splits!! :)

surprise, matt's 30!!

matt didn't want anything big for his 30th birthday, but i just had to do a little something! we had a little surprise party with his college roommates and their families! he thought that we were going to go to dinner with our friends ben, carmen and their boys, so he was surprised to see them. they arrived first and matt, ben and the kids were in the living room as soon after, one by one the others arrived and would casually walk into the living room to surprise him! :) it was great! he kept looking at me with this "i'll get you my pretty" look, but he was really glad to see everyone and later told me thank you! :) what a fun day!

cake courtesy of carmen, she had connections and
had the super cool NC State wolf cake made for matt!

matt and a few of his guests, jimmy, ben, claire and bryan.

wyatt and oliver enjoying the pizza.
cool side note about the pizza:i ordered, payed AND tipped the driver online,
2 days before the party!! the delivery guy just dropped it off and took off!!
it was so nice! go Papa Johns!

a different view of the cake, you can see the "30" better at this angle!

me holding the cake so that matt can blow out the candles...thank goodness there
were only 2 and not 30...that could have been dangerous!