Birthdays!

This last Sunday was my birthday.  I absolutely LOVE my birthday and always have a great one.  My children let me sleep in until 8:00 and then sang "Happy Birthday" to me.  I went downstairs with them and opened presents.  Jane drew me a whole notebook of otters.  Bruce gave me a basketball.  Kate and James both gave me a drawing.  We got ready for church and went to church.  My mom sent a package with little snap beads in it and that entertained the kids for the entire sacrament meeting :)  I taught in Relief Society and it felt wonderful to be with all my sisters.  B is out of town. 

    During the afternoon we relaxed (thank you Jan for my flowers and chocolate) and then my friend Jamie invited us for dinner- delicious homemade bread and chicken noodle soup!  For dessert we ate pieces of a Macadamia Nut tart that my friend Karen brought to me earlier. Love! 

I got to talk to a lot of my family and they gave me a bunch of wonderful things as well (although my mom gave me 5 presents and 4 of them were books for the kids.)  My friend Megan also brought me brownies- thank you!  My sister Melissa gave me an Amazon card- excited, thank you! and my sister Joanna gave me this new book:

On Monday the celebration continued when my friend Alison (thank you for the almonds & oils) and I went downtown for a little lunch (Globe) and shopping (Penzeys.)  I received a package from my mom Damstedt and it had new socks- I love new socks!!  

That night at baseball my friend Amy gave me a raspberry cupcake & also earlier my friend Liz brought me a huge peanut butter and chocolate cupcake. Both delicious!

On Tuesday my friend Tara invited us over for lunch and James to swim and when I got there- lots of people were there.  My friend Rachel has a birthday today so we had a little combined party and it was so fun to relax, talk, and eat some very delicious food. I love the necklace from my friend Carolyn so much and will have to find something to wear with it and the chocolate from Amy is always divine.

 

 I got several flowers and made them all into a bouquet:

Today (oh it keeps going..) my friend Jessica brought me a beautiful Gerbera daisy plant- which I promptly planted:

I was telling B- my friends know me so well. They all brought me flowers or something delicious to eat :) 

He gets home this weekend so we'll go out an celebrate then.  

 

So here's to another year and it's starting off pretty great so far. 

(Now I just have to loose this million pounds I gained this week eating so many delicious things ;)

 * * Also Kate got to celebrate her birthday at school since she has a summer birthday.  She's so cute: