birthday for two

Mom and I celebrate our birthdays in March, and for the first time ever, we had a joint birthday celebrations!

If you remember, last year we had a scavenger hunt with my family for my birthday (see archived blog here)Well, since we had a small turnout last year, we decided to have 'take two' this year, complete with new clues, new teams, and new winners! It was actually quite amusing to watch my parents, grandparents, sister, brother-in-law, cousins, and friends compete for first place! The clues were hidden inside and outside both my parents' house and my granny's house. We live on about 100+ acres of land between the 2 families, so people were driving cars back and forth between houses and clues. Some ways the competition got a bit 'heated' was

-by hiding clues a little harder than they originally found them
-stealing keys from a running car
-locking the door to granny's house behind them to make sure the next person had to use the key to get inside!


Laura and Annie running to find the next clue:

the grandfather clock clue:


Heather, Hannah, and Jenny looking in granny's mailbox for a clue:



And the winners are... Laura, Mamaw, Annie, and Mom:

After the scavenger hunt we had birthday cake and ice cream. Mom turns 56 on March 14 and I turned 29 on March 2, so we had a joint birthday weekend - complete with blowing out candles together!


Annie and Hannah enjoyed dessert the most I think!



And after dessert, we made dinner for everyone - well, mostly Brian made dinner for everyone. He and Jenny brought ready-made kabobs, both chicken and steak, to grill for dinner. And they were mmm...mmmm....good!