Birthday Celebrations

Happy Wednesday!!! I thought today would be fun to share a few pictures of our "birthday weekend," which really started last Tuesday with Pierce's birthday and continued through the weekend with family, friends and lots of celebrations!! 

    

I love having a birthday three days away from this guy - it's always makes the month of May so special and fun!

For Pierce's birthday, his two big requests were biscuits for breakfast and carrot cake for dessert... I've made Joanna Gaines' biscuit recipe too many times to count, so that was a fun one for breakfast, but I had never tried my hand at carrot cake... 

So I asked Audrey for her best recipe, ran some errands with Jane to gather all that we needed and then spent the afternoon working on this sweet cake. It turned out so much better than I expected and was such a fun way to celebrate Pierce!!

Jane loved on him after work! 

And then we made the cover of our Half Baked Harvest cookbook for his birthday dinner. It was just as good as it looked!

We have a new favorite around here! 

We lit some candles to end that sweet May 9th!! 

Then fast forward three days and we had another birthday biscuit breakfast to celebrate May 12th! Pierce put out our birthday table cloth, had gifts, a note and a cup of tea on table that morning which was so sweet. 

Pierce worked for a bit, and we hung out with this cutie after lunch. 

Then we packed up and went to pick up Pierce's brother, sister-in-law, and Jane's sweet cousin Lucy!

I think Jane might have been the most excited - I think she gave Lucy about 200 hugs over the weekend hahaha She was so excited for a friend staying with her!! 

Then we had my sweet sister over too, Pierce whipped up Half Baked Harvest birthday meal #2 and we celebrated with a little dinner around our table.

    

Love this guy! 

We added candles to the second half of the carrot cake hahaha

And celebrated x2 with that sweet cake. 

And it wouldn't be a birthday night without staying up late playing some games. Logan and Jessy gifted us with Ticket to Ride, which we were so excited to play! 

The next morning, Logan and Jessy picked up some sweet balloons and helped set up, and we welcomed some of our favorite friends over for some burgers and fellowship. 

It was such a sweet afternoon just hanging with kiddos and family and friends - celebrating all that the Lord has done in these past 29 and 30 years!! 

These little ones might have had the most fun of all though! This cooler turned sensory water table became a big hit hahaha

We're so grateful for this sweet fam and all that we learn from them in so many aspects of life! We loved having them there on Saturday! 

We're also so grateful for this sweet fam and wishing they lived next door instead of in Birmingham!! Julie and I lived next door to each other freshman year of college and have been close friends ever since!! Trying not to plan an arranged marriage too early hahaha 

And of course we are so grateful for these three and that they flew in to celebrate for the weekend! 

Jane could not get enough hugs in for her sweet little cousin!!! 😭

And we snuck in one last date night out to end the weekend thanks to my sweet sister watching the girls! 

It was a weekend for the books, and we are so grateful for all of our sweet friends and family who celebrated us, near and far! Thanks for loving us so well!! That's a wrap on these Birthdays of 2023...it's been a fun and full last month! It's so fun to celebrate the big things, but you know that I love soaking in the small moments too! We are so looking forward to all of our small summer joys coming soon!! 

Thanks for following along in this little journey! 

I'll plan on seeing you back here tomorrow!!

Love of love,
Tab