My baby is 25!

Happy Birthday to Nick! He had a fun day yesterday! He was awakened with breakfast in bed, his FAVORITE Blueburry pancakes, bacon and strawburries and of course APPLE JUICE! He then opened his presents. I got him a new bag of golf tees, an egg slicer, CHOCOLATE ( that was a present we could both benefit from!), and his new Orange golf shirt he has been wanting! Doesn't he look so handsome in it? We decided since our birthdays are so close, we would go to Arizona Biltmore in Scottsdale to celebrate instead of getting presents. I just couldn't help myself! You have to have Something to open on your birthday right? So then I worked on his GOLF cake for 4 hours....yes....4 hours! I didn't get a picture of it finished. It was really cute! Too bad it FELL while transporting it to my parents home. My mom made Nick STEAK, baked potato's, salad, and a special grilled corn on the cob. Then we had the cake which was SO yummy! I made it from scratch, which I haven't ever done...it was fun! We then watched " Fools Gold" which was cute and then walked outside and saw an AMAZING sunset!

I am so happy Nicky had a GREAT birthday and he could feel special and important! He is the best husband and I am so blessed to have him in my life! I hope his wish he made when he blew out his candles comes true!!!! As you can see in the picture of the sunset....it was a PERFECT day!!!

Birthday Eve

Well, Nick had a pretty fun Birthday's Eve!!! He got up and played 18 holes of golf with my dad and Scotty. His day could have ended there and he would have been thrilled....but it went on! We went out to his mom's house in Red Rock, Pam, and she made Nick's favorite food! Pam's homemade TACOS! Nick can't get enough of these things! She also made YUMMY enchiladas and a fruit bowl! We had Cheesecake and these little lemon muffins for dessert. It was fun to see his sisters and brother and mom! His little nephew ( Ricky) is a crack up! He has a smile that will kill ya! Nick was so cute holding little Aiden! He will be such a good dad SOMEDAY!!!! Can wait until tomorrow! Nick will have some fun things in store for him!

My new Boyfriend

I have a new man in my life. His name is Asher. Okay, so he isn't REALLY my boyfriend. But he could end up being my daughters boyfriend or even HUSBAND someday! I have a good girlfriend named Corley and her son Asher is just the cutes little devil ever! She came over for a bit today and I couldn't help myself, I had to dress Asher up in anything I could find! I love this picture of him in the straw hat! He looks like an old man ready to go fishing! We all hung out by the pool today! It was so warm and sunny and PERFECT for swimming! Thanks Corley for inviting me to Asher's POOL PARTY!

Smith/Bowler night out!

Tonight we went to dinner and Christi STONES reception! It was so fun to hang out with Jon and Becky. We ate at the OH SO YUMMY Carrabas and then went to the recpetion. The Church was decorated soooo pretty and our friend Christi was so happy and excited to be married. It made me think of Nick and I and how we have already been married for a YEAR! It seems like just yesterday we got married and were having our reception! CRAZY! Thanks for hanging out with us BOWLERS. Next time we will have to get dessert at Marie Calendars! YUM YUM! It was fun for Becky to see and catch up with her old "gang" too. Sorry the pic of Jon and Nick together are so scary...I can never seem to get them to smile! DORKS!

Would you like a Cockroach with that?

So, Nick and I were starving and wanted to try somewhere new on Friday night. He had never been to Metropolitan Grill, so I told him it was a nice place and we should go there! So, we get there, order some apps and then get dinner. While we were enjoying our dinner we had a little friend who wanted to join us. His name was Rusty the Roach. Well, Rusty isn't welcome in Kristen's world so we got our waitress to come and kill it. Well, our little waitress lied and said she got it! Not even two minutes later Rusty was back!!!! He was RIGHT behind my head and BOY was I grossed out! Nick and I couldn't eat anymore! There was my quick plug in for Metropolitan Grill. YUCK! Apparently the " weather" is to blame for the cockroaches. I don't know if I buy that. YUCK

MADONNA

So, I never really buy CD's any more. They are way too expensive and why not just download them right? WELL, when I find a CD that I LOVE I HAVE to buy it so that I can play it over and over again in my car! Madonna is one of my NEW CD'S! Every song on this track is jumpin and pumpin! If you need any motivation to work out, listening to the song's ( and looking at Madonna's hot bod ) will get you movin! Don't let the cover fool you, it does look pretty provocative, but the CD is great! I would KILL for her arms!!! BECKY- this is your motivation!