Dena turns 30!

Doug's parents and Aunt Arlene flew in on Thursday night from Wisconsin and we all snuck up to Maine on Saturday to surprise Dena for her dirty 30th party. It was a blast and Dena swears she didn't have a clue. You be the judge..take a look at the photos below.

(In case you were wondering, we are the ones dressed in paper bags...you know we can't do anything normal, it just isn't any fun!)

Then with a little prompting from the iPod, Dena and Eric decided to turn the party into a dance party. Eric was hilarious...he just ran to the middle of the circle and started showing everyone his moves! We have a bad feeling that Eric is going to be the president of his fraternity some day...we are very, very afraid.

The dogs had a great time too, as they were in charge of guarding the food table. Knowing them and seeing their pleading, big brown eyes, I am sure they had their share of goodies that night.

We rounded out the night with cake and ice cream...a family favorite.

Happy 30th Dena and great job Matty with the weekend full of surprises.

Eric takes Maine by Fire!

Just in case you didn't hear on the news, Maine was invaded last weekend by the Lohses. In classic Beverly Hillbilly style, Val, Dianne (Doug's mom), Eric, and Pokey hit the road with not a ounce of space to spare. Doug followed us up there in car #2 later in the day and brought up everything else we couldn't fit. (It truly is amazing how much stuff this little man needs!) Luckily, Dena, Matty, and Rubbles have a nice size home in the woods of Arrowsic, Maine so we had plenty of room to spread out all of our nonsense.

We had a jammed pack weekend of shopping, golf, beach-going, and crafting (I am sure there will be a post later in the week on syddesigns.com with some of our creations!). It was a great time and Eric really enjoyed himself. The beach was alot of fun. Eric even took on a small wave of 50 degree water head-on without even batting an eye. Our little risk taker! He only ate a few small handfuls of sand and took a few gulps of salt water! We will definitely be spending lots of time at the beach this summer!