THIRTY!!!!

Well well well, a lot of you have already seen some pics from the big event floating around on facebook and on other peoples blogs, but for those of you who haven't, I thought I would post a few here as well.

Yes, I turned 30!! Yes, I threw myself a party. But it's not pathetic cause I did it in style...in 80s style of course! 1980 brought not only me into this world, but Pacman into the US. So my sister Jenn made a very appropriate cake for the celebration!

Aaron dressed up as Hulk Hogan and even dyed his mustache for the celebration.

Yes, that is Mr. T in the background...we pity the fools who couldn't come to the party! I told my again amazing sis Jenn how awesome it would be to have a life sized cutout of Mr. T for decor/photo ops and she decided we could just make one.

Our backyard decor with our dolled up guests ready to rock. Pay no attention to the empty picture frames showing of course how behind schedule we were getting everything ready.

Here we have another fine art piece...one of my childhood heroes.

I don't think this picture needs any words.

The last of our "life-sized" cutouts. You can see we had a little trouble fitting our faces, but isn't Jenn awesome to have thought of all this?! Of course, if I had known how many hours we were going to spend coloring, I might have thought twice about the idea.

A big thanks to Sidse too for her artistic help. We have two more pics that we didn't even get to...guess we'll have to save them for the next party.

Here we have the winners of the costume contest and the runners up. I was so amazed at how decked out they got. Don't they look incredible?! You guys are awesome!!

A lot of the folks had already gone home for the night, but here is a group of the girls. The one on the far right is my sis Kathryn, another big help for making the evening a success. It's so nice to have a recreation professional in the fam to make awesome games. Her jeopardy was so much fun...and Dave Coleman's 80s trivia knowledge was very impressive.

Even though we had a lot of hiccups and things didn't go quite as planned, I hope that everyone had a great time. Thanks for helping me have a totally tubular birthday bash! Last but not least, a big thanks to Aaron for coming up with the idea in the first place, letting me go a bit crazy, and patiently putting up with my endless requests that weekend. Love you!

If you haven't seen the rest of the pics on facebook, definitely check them out.