Happy Birthday Kevin!

Well, Kevin's birthday was everything but exciting this year. Let me give you the long, drawn out version of what happened:

Well, our friends Aaron and Kay Ellen Crawford have a baby due March 3. They were having a baby shower in Bedford (just outside of Ft. Worth) on Saturday, January 13th. This, of course, is Kevin's birthday. Well, this baby shower was a couples baby shower. I had never heard of that, but because it was being thrown by Aaron's mother for people that primarily knew Aaron when he was young it only seemed appropriate. Kevin had sworn up and down (long before this ever came up) that he would NEVER go to a couples shower. Showers were for women. I thought it was pretty funny that this was the first couples shower we had been invited to and it was on his birthday. Being that Aaron and Kay Ellen are some of our closest friends I knew he wouldn't miss it! Well, Aaron and Priscilla were also invited, but Aaron had already planned on going out of town. So, the plan was that Kevin, Priscilla, Ethan and I would head to Bedford for the shower. That was before the "dreadful" weather was headed our way. In Texas cold weather can be bad, but even if there is potential for severe cold the only thing on TV is weather. So, starting Friday evening there was only weather forcasts predicting an "Arctic Blast" to hit all of north Texas. We watched the news Saturday morning to determine whether we were going to brave the storm. It seemed to be moving in quickly, then stopped just before it reached us. We got a ton of rain, but no freezing rain that was expected. However, the storm seemed pretty unpredictible, so we chose to stay in the Dallas area. Ft. Worth already had frozen bridges and over passes, we didn't want to get out there and get stuck. Ethan and I baked some birthday cupcakes in the morning.We decided instead to go out to Salt Grass for lunch. We assumed that when the "Arctic Blast" came through we might get stuck inside in the evening and the next day. Did I tell you that Texas tends to over exaggerate it's winter storms? We got home and braced for the storm...that never came. Saturday morning Priscilla nad woke up with what we thoought were bad allergies. After lunch we were pretty wiped out. We sat on the couch and by 5pm we were sleeping, feeling like we had a cold and not just allergies. We opted to stay home from church, surely this huge storm would hit while we were at church, and we didn't feel good anyway. So after we ate some leftovers for dinner Kevin got to blow out all 34 candles on 34 cupcakes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN!