Mattapalooza 2010!

For Matt's 33rd birthday this year, I wanted to pay homage to the music festivals of our teens and twenties. Hence the name Mattapalooza. This was no ordinary birthday celebration, this was a 3 day celebratory festival! It began on Thursday when Matt met up with his dad, uncle, and our bro in law, Wade for golf in SLC. We met them later to eat at the Sizz and celebrate both Matt and Roger's birthdays.

Friday, we had a bunch of friends and family come over to hang out, eat one of the MILLIONS of goodies I'd baked, and laugh! There were kids everywhere, too much food, and tons of fun! I can't believe I didn't take any pictures!

Saturday was Matt's actual birthday. Sadly, I had great intentions of making it the greatest day of his life, and surprisingly, it wasn't! We had plans to have my mom come over and watch the offspring so the two of us could go golfing. That plan was nixed when our course had a tournament going on. Plan B was for us to play tennis instead. It was pouring rain that morning. Plan C was to take the kiddos bowling around lunch time, but before nap time. Plan C came to a crashing halt when London proceeded to the world's largest tantrum because "her jeans just didn't feel right..." Super. The tantrum lasted well over an hour, sadly I'm not exaggerating here, and nap time was approaching, so bowling was out. At least all 3 kids napped for almost 3 hours! We had some alone time and then headed to dinner with the family! We ate at the Hibachi House (yummy!) then came back to our place for treats and more fun! Somehow the guys ended up outside and decided to make it a real party by digging out a dead tree in the back yard. Can you say FUN?!? Yeah, I think it's lame too. Made for some fun pictures, at least!

Matt loved his gifts! The kids and I bought him a bunch of new shirts, new running shorts, and a new golf bag. Melissa and Wade and York and Jenny both got him cute golf shirts. His mom had his clubs regripped, and my mom got him a ball retreiver. Seeing a trend here? I just love this boy more than anything and hope he had an amazing birthday!!!

Matt with a very jealous Piper scooting backwards into his already occupied lap!

York and Jenny

Taking down the dead tree!