Happy 50th Sheila!

I am the baby of four.

My oldest sister, Selena, is soon to be 52.

Sheila just turned 50.

Larry, the only boy, is 47.

I turned 40 in August.

Being the baby is a beautiful thing. It allows me to remind them all as often as I can that I am MUCH younger than them. It gives me the opportunity to do horribly embarrassing things to them when they hit milestone birthdays WAY before me, this weekend was one of those opportunities!

My niece lives in Nashville which just so happens to be the half way point between us. So a weekend trip was planned to celebrate this momentous occasion! The two sisters drove in from northern Illinois and I flew up from Florida. They met me at the airport where the nonstop celebrating and laughter commenced!

Before we headed out the first night Selena re-gifted Sheila with the wine glass Sheila had given her two years prior. It was not an option for her to drink from any other glass the rest of the weekend.

Selena also brought a special t-shirt to sleep in every night, I love that she embraces the fact that she is over 50 with such humor!

We made our way up and down Broadway and ended the night at Big Bang, a dueling piano bar, it was crack for a people watcher like me! My favorite was the bride that was prancing around, humping every willing man and acting like a total dumb blonde drunk on too much peach schnapps. I'm confident her name was Buffy!

Samantha, my niece, was able to get Sheila on stage, she isn't quiet the extrovert as her little sister, and made an exit stage left in under 5 seconds. Although this picture is terrible it includes Buffy so like OMG I totally had to share it!

I do believe Samantha was showing off the fact that her boobs, unlike her Mom and Aunt, are still just a few inches south of her chin. They had a name for her, I won't say it but it rhymes with witch!

This dude, we called him Missouri because yep that's where he's from, couldn't have caught a clue to go away if he was Jerry Rice. He managed to find his way into several of our pictures which was really starting to piss me off. To try to make my point that we didn't want him around a little more clear I went as far as to tell him is half-assed attempt of growing a beard made him look Amish or a little like a Leprechaun. He still wouldn't go away. The fact that we were all sisters really confused him especially when he found out two of us were Sam's Aunts. "Now how does that work?" he kept asking. After attempting to explain it to him several times I just conceded to the fact that he was a douchenozzle and could not be taught!

Sam has a beautiful voice and knew the band playing at one of the bars we went to so they allowed her to sign a few songs. Listening to her sing is a always a treat!

The next day was rather low key. We had breakfast at 2 in the afternoon and walked around the Opryland hotel where I had chocolate chip, cinnamon, cayenne pepper gelato {surprisingly it was very delicious!}. Selena and Sam went to watch the Packers embarrass the Falcons {more dead bird sightings} while Sheila and I took a nap, enjoyed a late massage and a very late dinner before we met up for round two out on the town! Due to the incredible amount of pictures I will skip pictures from night number two {you can thank me later}.

Sunday was Sheila's actual birthday, while she ran out Selena and I made the room look a little festive. All of these were things were sitting out at Selena's 50th. Ya'll she saved all of this crap, down to a zip lock baggie full of confetti, from her birthday and she made Sheila take it home with her for my 50th...in 10 years!

The hotel door now had caution tape on it and a sign, intentionally not personalized for the purpose of recycling!

The Hooter Hoister hung from the peep hole!

The room was full of over the hill confetti, 50 signs and streamers. We forgot to bring tape, but found use number 51 for super strong hair spray!

Truth be told, I needed this more than my older sisters!

Just a few gifts for the birthday girl which included these...

I made shirts for all of us to wear out that night! There was no need for that cute little outfit she had set out to be ironed because she would wear this along with a black and silver boa feather and tiara!

While the rest of us wore these!

Seriously, just how cute do we look?!!?

They were each personalized on the front and the backs all said "we're celebrating the 29th anniversary of Sheila's 21st birthday." They were simply freaking fabulous I tell ya!

While at our first stop I noticed something rather strange. There was a Santa hanging from out of the ceiling overlooking the bar. When I said "he's watching all the twenty something hootches loose woman and pointing and yelling at them Ho, Ho, Ho! the table of nearby men bought us all a drink saying that was the funniest thing they had ever heard and it deserved a round! Well, thank you Sirs and you're welcome sisters!

We moved onto the Stage a great bar that had a fantastic band playing and where I found my boyfriend for the rest of the night. To protect his privacy I will only refer to him as Tex. Now before you get all up in arms over the fact that I'm married {apparently a minor detail for many, one dude was sportin' a pretty snazzy looking "thumb ring" while canoodling with a bar slut seemingly nice young lady} Babe already knows about my love affair in Nashville and he has no problem with it, he's cool like that!

Me and Tex...I may be in love!

I'm not sure what the attraction was but Sam even agreed.

He was a true gentleman and try as we may he refused to choose his favorite! Clearly I could offer more experience and Sam had youth and the persuasion of alcohol on her side but he was having no part of pitting family against family. Tex remained a true gentleman through and through!

As you can see I had a great time with my sisters and niece, I am a very lucky BABY sister indeed! And for the record, I may officially be a cougar now but the two of you are Lynxes {yes, that's correct I googled it}!

Happy Birthday Sheila, I love you!