Austin and Lane’s Birthday Weekend

The whole McCormick clan went up to the deer camp this weekend for some birthday partying. Between January and mid February 9 of the 14 of us have birthdays so there were lots of gifts exchanged. Austin’s birthday was Thursday and so we had a little party for him Saturday morning. Rachel’s Mom, Dad, sister and niece came up for the day too. It was the cutest party with lots of fun games that the kids loved. And it was lots of fun to watch!









The cousins always have the greatest time together and us grown girls do too 





Lots of laughter and good food is always had. And I love the memories that I know the girls come away with each time. This morning was Lane’s actual birthday. I was happy to be able to see him first thing and sing Happy Birthday before he was even fully awake. Later in the morning Capn and Yaya took all 6 kids to plant some spider lily bulbs. 



I’m sure it’s something they’ll always remember.

We left early so Matt and I could tackle our “honey do” list. We got it all done and then had some one on one time with the girls. I took Lilli to Target to spend some of her birthday money

(I literally cannot remember the last time she and I went somewhere alone) and Matt took Katie to the pet store for some fish supplies and to get ice cream. Lilli was happy with her horse purchase but the sweetest thing was that she spent part of her own money to buy Katie a gift too 



She’s such a sweet big sister and I love how they love each other. We got back and did some bike riding- Lilli’s loving riding without training wheels and Katie loves Lilli’s old bike that Matt fixed up for her.

And then came in to watch the Super Bowl and Matt cooked me a delicious meal of grouper and shrimp.

Plus I won $100 in my office grid square on the game! All in all a good day! 

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