Caution...this is a HUGE post!!! On last Friday, Stacie (Adrian's wife) and myself (along with the help of my wonderful, amazing sister Julie) planned a surprise party for Rob and Adrian (their birthdays are just a few days apart). And because Rob was turning 30, I decided to go all out!
Here are Rob and Adrian (being very kind and posing for a photo)! Happy Birthday you guys!
The planning for the party started about a month ago. It wasn't until I was in Idaho for my sister's wedding that I had a brillant idea (after watching Ace of Cakes). To make a life-size electric guitar cake. So on Wednesday, Brooke and I went over to Julie's house and baked a cake.
Here is Brooke helping (or not helping I can't remember at this point).
Here is the pan of left-over pieces of cake. I am glad Julie had mutual because most of the "scraps" got eaten.
Julie and Trevor helping out!
Because the cake was so large we had to cut it into sections to freeze. Here is the handle part.
Here is the body of the guitar, and part of the handle. This cake took up Julie's entire freezer. I am just glad it fit.
On Thursday, I told Rob I was going to play volleyball but instead I went to Julie's house and we decorated it. It was a lot of fun. It didn't take too long and I think we did a pretty good job.
Here is how we had to cover it Thursday night. We used legos to hold the foil up so it wouldn't smudge the cake.
Here is the final product! Look at all those details! Thanks for all your help Julie!
Finally the big day. Brooke was napping over at Julie's house so I could finish shopping and cook some food. I get this call at 3:15 from Julie that Brooke's arm hurts. That she won't let anyone touch it. Julie is really worried so I hurry up and finish the food and change my clothes and head over. I get there around 3:40 (20 minutes before it is time to set-up and we still need to get balloons) and Brooke's arm looks a little funny...it is just hanging by her side. So my first thought was just to bag the whole party. But Julie said she would go and help Stacie set-up and I would take Brooke to the InstaCare for x-rays.
We wait at the InstaCare, for what seems like forever (2 hours) and finally we get some x-rays. The doctor said he thought it was her elbow so we go into the x-ray room and the tech has me hold Brooke's arm in a couple different positions, the whole time she is crying and then I start crying because she is in so much pain, to take x-rays. We finish and go back to the room. By the time we get back to the room Brooke is just fine. Apparently she had dislocated her elbow and the tech "popped" it back into place while she was trying to take the x-rays. By this time it was 6:10 pm and Rob and Adrian had already been "surprised" but we headed over to the party.
Just a few more photos of the cake.
We reserved the church so the kids could just run around in the gym.
Decorations.
Food table.
Here are Rob and Adrian ready to blow out the candles.
Making a wish.
We decided to take the party a little "old school". We played musical chairs and had a pinata.
Me carving and Brooke coloring her pumpkin.
Brooke wanted nothing to do with gutting the pumpkin...she wouldn't go near it. 
The pumpkin patch. Brooke wanted to push the wheel barrow. 
So here she is pushing it! Brooke found the perfect pumpkins (I think Julie helped her)!
Me showing off our sand dollars. There were a lot in that one spot...Adrian and Stacie got a bunch.
We went to Union Square and did a little shopping, none of us bought anything but it was cool to see all the people. We also went to Chinatown.
Here is the yacht we are going to purchase one day...it was huge!
We went to the Aquarium at the Pier.
I had a hard time touching the fish (but I touched the shark and the star fish).
One of the highlights of the whole trip was going to Alcatraz (sp). It was really neat. We walked around with this recorders and listened to some of the stories and things that happend on "The Rock."
You can see the three floors in the background of this photo.
Adrian and Stacie in one of the cells...Rob too.
"The Rock"
Rob and I at the Pier.
A sidewalk show, I thought it was pretty funny.
We went to Golden Gate Park and did the paddle boats. I felt bad because Adrian and Stacie ended up paddling more than half. I was also terrified the whole time because water just kept coming in (unless you were paddling backwards...go figure). It was really fun though.
Golden Gate Park.
We had so much fun. Thanks Julie for watching Brooke and letting us take this little vacation! 
On Tuesday, the day we left IN we went to the Children's Museum...and it was INCREDIBLE! Seriously, it had everything you could possibly want in a museum: trains, dinos, cars, cartoons, and so much more!
Here we are as a family in front of a T-Rex and
Grandma B. and Brooke on a pony. Brooke didn't like this ride very much.
Brooke and Grandma B. in a Soda Shoppe
Robert (having a really fun time) and Brooke on the Carousel (sorry for the blurry photo...low light and movement).
Brooke and I in a race car.
Brooke playing at the water station.
While we were at Grandma and Grandpa B's house, Brooke and Grandma loved baking.
While they were making the apple crisp, Brooke would take a bite of an apple slice, say "delicious" and then add it to the pile and take a bite from another slice, it was adorable.
In Indy there is the best children's park. It had a few hiking trails, this pond, and two toy sets (one for bigger kids and one for smaller kids). Just look at those beautiful fall colors. It was gorgeous.
Brooke loved the swings. 
We went to KY for the weekend of Rob's birthday. We were able to hang out with Rob's brothers and their families. We had a really great time. 
Us singing "Happy Birthday" to Rob. Rob is pouting in this photo like Brooke does.
I took some other photos while we were in KY but I haven't gotten around to processing them yet. It is on my to-do list.
Brooke and Grandpa B. Grandpa has these things called Trikke's and Rob and I got pretty darn good at them while we were there. It took me a while to get the hang of it but by the end I thought they were really fun.
Making cookies.
In IN Brooke and I both got our haircut. Beverlee's cousin/friend (so related to us also somehow) Jenna is an amazing hair stylist and cut/color my hair while we were there and I just love it.
Brooke and I all prettied up. Brooke got a sucker because she behaved so well, I didn't get a sucker?!
Brooke at Rob at the SLC Airport waiting for our plane to take us on our trip. Brooke was so great on the airplane and the flights both ways were really get, hardly any turbulance. We flew on an airline (no names mentioned) that charges for everything so we carried on all of our stuff). I didn't know that one of the bags could roll down the aisle of the airplane so on the first leg I ended up hitting some guy in first class about three times with my bags...he wasn't very happy with me (a woman in first class though was very nice and helped me get my bags through some of the seats)...too funny. 
We had such an amazing time and we are so grateful for family! Thanks for all your help everyone in IN and KY for feeding us, letting us sleep at your houses, and for "bakin' a cake." THANKS for EVERYTHING!
Here are Rob and Adrian (being very kind and posing for a photo)! Happy Birthday you guys!
Here is Brooke helping (or not helping I can't remember at this point).
Here is the pan of left-over pieces of cake. I am glad Julie had mutual because most of the "scraps" got eaten.
Julie and Trevor helping out!
Because the cake was so large we had to cut it into sections to freeze. Here is the handle part.
Here is the body of the guitar, and part of the handle. This cake took up Julie's entire freezer. I am just glad it fit.
Here is how we had to cover it Thursday night. We used legos to hold the foil up so it wouldn't smudge the cake.
Here is the final product! Look at all those details! Thanks for all your help Julie!
Just a few more photos of the cake.
Decorations.
Food table.
Here are Rob and Adrian ready to blow out the candles.
Making a wish.
We decided to take the party a little "old school". We played musical chairs and had a pinata.
It got a little competitive near the end.
(Trevor had to borrow Brooke's clothes, hence the hot pink shirt).
The pinata kept falling off the rope so in the end they just used it as a baseball.
It was a great evening. Thanks everyone who came (not everyone is pictured).
Brooke waiting to leave while we are cleaning up! "Let's go guys!" 