The Kellys: Surprises and Pictures

Last weekend I was very surprised to find all of my closest family and friends in my house when I got home from being out! Ryan had planned a surprise 30th birthday party for me! He had been working for a while getting everything together with the help of some of my best friends. They had come up with a theme-which was to dress like different types of Santa's. He had even bought me my own Santa costume.
Before I post all of the pictures, I will start by how they got me out of the house. Laney told me that she wanted to take some pregnancy pics of me and I was obviously okay with this! Laney takes great pictures so I was excited to do it! (I will post some of these after the party pics). Anyway, the plan was to take pics, go get her husband Brandon and then come back to my house to pick up Ryan and go to Ziziki's for dinner. Little did I know, we werent going to dinner with just Laney and Brandon, we were having dinner with about 20 more people at our house!
So I walked in and saw my friends and family and heard the big "SURPRISE."

This was my reaction to the surprise. After walking in and seeing everyone, I turned around to look at Laney and Brandon, because I STILL wasnt thinking they knew anything. Well when I turned around, I missed the balloon drop. Thats right!-Ryan had set up a balloon drop too. Needless to say it was so much fun and I couldnt have thought of a better way to celebrate turning 30. I am so blessed to have Ryan, my family and my friends, they are all amazing and I cant imagine my life without them. I am so thankful to those friends and family who helped Ryan put this all together....I know he appreciated it as did I! Here are some pictures of all the fun costumes!!

Me and Emily

Mia even joined in on all of the fun...

Ryan and I

some of the fun costumes...

Emily, Katie and I

Baby Kate partied as well..

Elf!

Me, Mel, Kelly, Nat and Laney

Family photo...Love my little family!!!

On the baby front...

Everything is going well with little Kate. I am 29 weeks along and getting bigger as I type this! Kate is moving all of the time, which Ryan and I LOVE! Its been so much fun having Ryan feel her move, it gets us so excited about meeting this little girl. Ryan just loves feeling her move, its been so much fun to see his reaction when she kicks really hard or when he feels an elbow slide across my belly, he gets the sweetest smile on his face. He is going to be such a wonderful dad! We have furniture ordered and Ryan is going to paint over the Christmas Break. I cannot believe that we only have 11 more weeks before she is here! She is already such a blessing in our lives. We are actually going tomorrow for our 3D sonogram and we are very excited about seeing Kate.

Here are some of the pictures that Laney took of my belly last weekend before the party. They turned out great! Im so lucky to have such a talented friend!!