Celebrating Our Favorite Guy

This past weekend was a special birthday in the Phelps house! Parker finally aged up and joined me in year 27! I'm going to keep it short and sweet today, but I couldn't let the day pass without sharing a few pictures and thoughts on the birthday boy. 

We kept it low key but had a wonderful time celebrating. We have always celebrated "birth weeks", so we did anything he wanted to do the whole week! Aka, we watched Game of Thrones, went to see the new X-Men movie, and had just about the manliest cheeseburger Virginia Beach has to offer. Done and done. 

We kicked off the birth week with a little birthday pie. Alright, I had made that pie the week before and it really needed to get eaten, so I stuck a candle in a slice and called it good. Lazy? Yes. Thankfully men are easy! I did make his favorite cake towards the end of the week though. I introduced him to my family's recipe for Italian Cream Cake not too long ago and it's what he has requested ever since! It's my favorite cake too, so I don't mind making it one bit!

It was a sweet time celebrating the one I love. I'm very glad he was born 27 years ago. My world sure is better because of it, and Jenny is pretty darn obsessed with her pa!

Living The Dream

For the past couple of years, I've had this idea for a photo shoot that I really, really wanted to do. I have always imagined taking professional pictures out on the flight line and knew it was time to make it happen. Thankfully the husband was on board, so my little dream was about to become a reality!

I have a wonderful (and talented!) friend who happens to be a photographer, and she graciously offered to take these pictures for us. I can never thank her enough. Parker and I both absolutely love them and are so excited to have this little chapter in our lives documented through these pictures.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: military life is never what I envisioned growing up. That said, it's no secret that I've completely fallen in love with it (even the hard parts), and looking at these pictures is a reminder of why. This life is the dream come true that I never knew I had, and we just both feel blessed to be living it. 

I thought I would take this fine Friday to share a few of our favorites from the photoshoot on the old blog!