Corey (Mullen) turns 30!!

This is an exciting year for birthdays...Jacks turns one soon (tear), Kylie reaches double digits, and many of our close friends turn 30 this coming year, including Mike and my brother Corey. We got to spend this past weekend celebrating our close friend Corey's 30th in the mountains. His sweet wife, Claire, planned a surprise birthday trip for him outside of Boone. She then surprised him again by having us show up. I know you are probably all thinking two things: First, why would we want to ruin a romantic weekend for the two of them in the mounts?? Second, smart - invite the couple with the baby! Sure that was a lot of fun....haha. Well, Claire insisted that it was okay and that Corey would love it. From what we could tell, he did. We don't get to see our dear friends nearly enough, so this was a nice weekend away for all of us. Plus, our dogs are besties and they both got to come along.

Anyway, I think we all had a lovely time! We hung around the cabin Friday evening and made dinner. Saturday we went in to Blowing Rock and walked around the shops and had a delicious lunch. We then went back to the cabin and ended up ordering in for dinner. It did rain a good bit of the time (no surprise, it has been raining every day in NC since summer started!), but we did have pretty nice weather while walking around Blowing Rock and the dogs still got to play outside and swim some. As always, it was great to catch up and spend time with good friends!

I put together a little basket of 30 goodies for the Corey's 30th.

What is a big birthday without a fur coat? haha

 

This boy was obsessed with Annie's bed....don't judge my parenting, it is hard to contain an active baby. Anyway, a little dog hair never hurt anyone. 

The cabin was even equipped with a high chair!

This boy loves Annie's bed too. 

The birthday boy with his glow sword! 

Family time down by the creek. 

We love you Corey, Claire, and Annie. Thanks for including us in your special weekend.