Ryan last year in the 20s!

Happy 29th Birthday my dear!

We can't believe this is his last year in the 20s, we are getting so OLD!! haha my family would kill me saying that, but sometimes it feels true :)

Haha, but seriously, 29 is so young, we have so much to do in our lives and fun times to enjoy. I love this man, more than words can describe. He is truly my best friend and such a GOOD PERSON. He is a wonderful husband, father, worthy priesthood holder, loyal, trustworthy, a hard worker, fun, funny, strong and attractive, just to name a few ;)

It was a fun filled weekend celebrating Jake and then Ryans birthday on Sunday. We actually went out Saturday night to celebrate. 

Side note: I have ALWAYS wanted to learn how to blow glass, it's on my bucket list. 

Well Ryan, being the amazing man he is, totally surprised me and took us glass blowing to celebrate both our birthdays and it was seriously one of the coolest dates we've ever done!! 

These two pictures are from before our date. We went to a preparedness fair in the town and they had firetrucks the kids (and adults, of coarse I got up there) could get up in and drive and check it out. Vince and Jake loved it!

Another awesome thing about the glass blowing was where it was at. It was in the old Rainier Beer brewery, which we would always drive by growing up when coming home from Seattle. It's a cool looking building and we actually got to blow glass in it!

Seattle artsy, obviously

So the process was pretty cool. We picked out what projects we wanted to make and the colors and patterns. I picked a pumpkin and Ryan did a turkey. Then we got our glass blowing master to take us step by step through the process and we got to help.

• The glass is in a kiln 2300 degrees (that's hotter than lava) waiting to be used
• It's the consistency of honey while in the melted stage
• It cools down extremely fast and you would have to hold in back in the kiln after about 45 seconds to continue to mold it into the shape you want
• After we finished it took 4 days to cool, with them slowly moving the finish project to cooler and cooler holding areas.

Waiting 

That's the glass when it first comes out of the kiln

Rolling it in the color (which is dyed little pieces of glass)

It was so hot to be standing there rotating the glass to get it pliable again,

This was the actual blowing part. You blew through a little straw type thing to put air in it so it would expand and get bigger. Not as much blowing as I thought there would be

Molding

And Walah!

It was so cool!