Happy Birthday Jen!

So we had a birthday for Jen tonight at our house and it was a blast! It was such a great team effort, everyone involved brought something, helped decorate etc. So Jen of course kinda knew something was up, but oh well we all hid and jumped out and yelled surprise! It was great, I didn't have the heart to tell Selah not to hide since Jen knew she lived here! So Jen fained surprise, which made the kids happy!
Anyway we truly had a blast!! It's always hard when you move away from so many friends and family and you feel lonely or you think wow this is a different world. But tonight, it was like, well I don't know how to describe it, it was just home. We have felt like this was home but tonight was like wow this is home. I don't know how else to say it... I sat there at one point when we were all laughing hysterically about twinkies and biscuits and I said to myself, "Self... this is the beginning of one of those memory times, the inside jokes, the things you look back on and laugh at, it felt good, really good, everyone totally being themselves and just having a blast. We also had a quite serious discussion about avoiding getting the "sug's" hopefully none of you will ever get the "sug's " because they involve twinkies, biscuits with jelly or a lot of both, and trust me folks it is ugly!