Birthday Celebrations

Jason turned 30! There's no way around it, Jason is 30. His wife Kristen threw an incredible surprise party for him and we had a great time of catching up with the Penn State contingency.Highlights from the evening were seeing Kyle and Sherry's family (with sweet sons Brody and Teague),me freaking out that everyone would get salmonella from a key lime pie Team Vile had made, Kevin winning at beer pong 3 times in a row, and of course, the fact that everyone who mentioned they read our blog also insisted that we not blog about them or show pictures of them. This is no democracy, this is the Vileation Nation...there are no release forms to sign, no consent forms to approve, no nothing. If we experience it or take a picture of it, it could find its way to the blog. Unless it's ugly pictures of us, which we will absolutely delete. It's just our policy.Anyway, it truly was a great night celebrating Jason's birthday and then we moved on to celebrating the impending birthday of "Panda." Kevin's mom and our future sister-in-law Kristin threw a gorgeous baby shower in Langhorne on Sunday afternoon. You would not believe the food at this place...unbelievable. And you would not believe the CUPCAKES that Kristin made. They were nothing short of exquisite and involved cutting open the tops, stuffing them with lemon curd, closing the tops and icing them with cream cheese frosting. Amazing. And the decorations and games and centerpieces that everyone put together...just perfect. Definitely check out the rest of the pictures to see the gorgeous pink and blue themed pansies that Mom Vile potted for each guest. I think "overwhelmed" would best describe how Kevin and I felt in response to everyone's generosity and kindness. It was just a great day and made us all the more excited to actually meet this baby. Check out some pictures here (if you were thinking you were safe from being pictured, Jodi, you were wrong...lucky for you you're looking great so we thought you'd be okay with it...).Great weekend over here at the Vileation Nation...now we're just enjoying some April showers in Baltimore and planning our next visit to see the Orioles play. We went to Camden Yards last week and caught a game against the White Sox (actual attendance is represented by the picture below, seriously. Some are blaming the dry spell in Oriole's attendance on those hot-shot Nationals who just moved in in DC). I was shocked to see Jim Thome playing for the White Sox since I thought he was still with the Indians. I think it's time for me to revisit baseball and stop asking about people like Jose Conseco and Albert Bell.