One last bday dinner

On Monday night, we had one last celebration for David's 30th birthday here in Gainesville with our awesome friends Natasha and Trey McPhaul, and Laura and  Brett Fowler. 

I used a lot of the decorations from David's party over the weekend so they could see it all. We enjoyed another night of tacos, but this time a la' Gena Knox.

Simple salad, Shrimp and BLT tacos, black bean cakes, and more cupcakes for dessert!

Our friends brought David such sweet thoughtful gifts! and we were so happy to have them over for the night!

JLo Love

Along with the talent this year on American Idol, I enjoy listening to the judges just as much. Randy has great feedback, Jennifer always boosts their confidence, and I laugh at everything that comes out of Steven's mouth. However, along with the entertaining singers and funny judges, I LOVE seeing what JLo is sporting that night. Really, does she ever miss a beat? She always looks fierce to me, and I know that she probably has a team of 20 that helps her look like this. Either way, in my book, she can do no wrong! 

Here are a few of my favorite JLo looks from this season of AI. 

I'm not sure what's more fierce....that leather strapped dress, or JLo's abs! 

I loved this look...I thought her minimal makeup was pretty with the dress.

This was fun too!

Love the color of this dress, and her hair is gorge.

She really looks great with red lipstick. Cute shorts and top!

And I love the color of this Michael Kors dress. JLo can really pull off the slicked-back ponytail.

Love the pale nude tone of the this sheath dress

And this was so cute too! She loves her sparkle!

But this is my favorite look so far! I loved the red dress she wore last night for the top 5 performances, and her makeup was beautiful too.

I wonder who is going home tonight? 

Party People

Here are some of my favorite photos from David's birthday party! On the party invitation, I asked that everyone wear something blue since it's David's favorite color! I think it made for some really fun pictures!
After a dinner of tacos, everyone enjoyed corn hole, beer pong, and musical flip-cup late into the night!

The birthday boy was genuinely surprised! 

I couldn't believe it that we all pulled it off! Brince was cool as a cucumber all day making sure David didn't catch on!

Here are all of the awesome Griffin cousins
Robert, Amanda, Fain, James, Sally, Kathryn, David and me

My Gongaman was happy to be in on the surprise for the bday boy!

And so was my Dad! I love this pic of him laughing!

David was so excited to see Jamie

And goodness knows my Mom and I were so relieved to be at this point of the evening!

I was beyond happy to have my buddies there - Jill, Meghan, and Renee

Here are my amazing girlfriends!
Renee, Hollie, Meghan, Jill, Christen, me, Colby, Laura Lyn, and Amy 

Our friends Ashley G, Wesley R, and Haydon joined the partay too!

Here's Abs making sure Hollie could "enter"! 

David with his main women!

Happy Birthday babe!

Awesome sisters-in-law, Mallory and Amy

The boys celebrated with a birthday Harmon

I love this picture of Eric - I wish I knew what David was saying! 

David's Aunt Caron, our friend Colby, David's Aunt Vicky, Hollie, and my mom in the kitchen!

We were so happy to have Christen there from D.C., and her sweet boyfriend Tim. 

The Wesleys.

Meghan and Clayton

It's dark, but that's Victoria and Abbye playin' a little corn hole.

My favorite Griffin men!
Robert, Grady, David, Benjy, Fain, and Steve

So glad Bill and Susan were there to celebrate too! 

And our friend James Farmer too!!! 

Here's the birthday boy and friends playing cornhole

The Coody clan!

Laura Lyn and Brince! So cute!!!! 

One last birthday toast for the night!

I love this....we have awesome friends!

To David turning 30!

Amy and Brooke - pretty girls!

John and Clayton!

And the finale to the evening was the world's longest game of musical flipcup...and look who the last two standing are! Abbye and David duked it out in the finals, and guess what? The birthday boy won! We all couldn't have been more proud!!!