To fully understand the extent of Matt's 30th birthday we would have to fill you in on details from a few years back. Matt was the sort of guy who loved to throw parties, dj the parties, come up with creative and unique ways to throw the party, and on occasion he loved to be the center of attention. Everyone loved his parties.... A few birthdays ago Matt had told me that for his 30th he wanted a big birthday bash. I on the other hand dread birthday parties. I would be so scared that no one would show up and I'd hate it. So I remembered that as his 30th birthday approached we would have to round up what friends we have and throw him a party.

As Matt's 30th got closer, Matt got weirder. All of the sudden he didn't want a birthday party. He was concerned that no one would show up. He became shy and introverted and I bacame the extroverted party thrower. We had major plans of projecting a movie in the park as it got dark and having a concession stand with popcorn and candy available. We wanted to have a BBQ and do brats, watermelon, and soda. Matt loves playing sports outdoors so we wanted to play Bocce Ball, Volley Ball and Croquet. I even got a little too carried away with the whole idea and wanted to do a raffle.

Well I sometimes like to plan big but have a hard time following through with all of it when I don't have my little party animal (Matt wink wink) with me to make it exciting. I had to beg him two weeks before to keep the plans of having a party and we both agreed that it would better to keep it more low key. When all was said and done it turned out pretty cool. We managed to play one game of Volley Ball and eat all of Matt's favorite summertime food. We did bring a projector ready to play The Empire Strikes (Matt's favorite movie from his birth year) but we ended up watching it at our house with Darrell and Amanda because it didn't even get dark until 10:00. It was so nice to see what support we had when we didn't think we would have any.


There you have it, Matt is officially 30 and we managed to have a great birthday BBQ. We will never again throw another ha ha.

After much debate and some time off from blogging, I decided to return and continue to write in my blog with a slite change. This time my blog will be more like a journal. It will include more of my husband and his activities with possible entries from him. So in other words the blog is now officially about the Schramer Family rather than just about me.

Continuing where I left of in March, our next adventure took place in April- a weekend getaway to St. George. We attended the Medieval Festival but unfortunately my camera died the first half hour we got there and I wasn't able to get photos of jousting. We did however get video, that was pretty rad.


I discovered I really enjoy archery and did fairly well for my first time. But of course only the type of archery that takes place in medieval times and not the modern way of hunting. I then almost lost my super nice camera to a palm reader who insisted that my husband could not watch my reading and said that I will die at the age of 75.

On our way home we stopped at Bryce Canyon which happened to be our very first time visiting. I recommend staying for more than a half day.






This is the first of many summer trips that I need to catch you up on. Stay tuned for more.