32!

Mother Nature was very good to me for my birthday! We had sunny skies and temps in the 70s & 80s for my birthday weekend, and it was nothing short of delightful! Friday was my actual birthday, and it was a school day for Miss Shelby...so I was up early as usual getting us ready to get out the door by 8:30. Shelby came bounding down the stairs at 7am to give me a big birthday hug. Her excitement quickly waned as she started grilling me asking me where my balloons and streamers were. ;)  Needless to say, she was less than impressed with the lack of frills that comes along with a grown-up's birthday. ;)  Once Shelby was at school, Hadley and I treated ourselves to breakfast at Chick-fil-a! She is always a fun date!

After school, I got the girls fed and put down for naps as quickly as I could b/c my friend Angela was coming over with Panera for lunch. Her hubby had the day off b/c he had just finished up night float, so he held down the fort with all 4 boys so Angela & I could have some rare girl time on my birthday! It was such a nice treat!

After the girls' naps, we headed to the playground to enjoy the gorgeous weather until Derek came home from work with Freddy's in hand for dinner. I couldn't believe I ate "out" for all three meals that day...but if you can't do that on your birthday, when can you do it?! The girls were very excited to make birthday cupcakes that night with me after dinner!

Hadley had already gone to bed by this point, and Shelby was anxious to sing to Mommy before she had to go to bed too...so we quickly iced two cupcakes and put candles in so we could do the birthday song! Shelby is singing to me in this picture :)

Of course she wanted to help me blow out the candles!

Two squeaky clean girls after bath :)

On Saturday morning, the Gallimores surprised us by dropping by for a visit with Shipley's donuts...it was a great start to our day! Then that evening, Derek & I had a sitter scheduled so we could celebrate my birthday with a date night! We had originally thought about doing dinner & a movie, but it always ends up being somewhat stressful trying to squeeze both of those in without being pressed for time. Invariably, we'll get to a restaurant only to find out there's a longer wait than we'd anticipated, and then we're left rushing to get to the movie in time...it seems insignificant, but date nights are special treats & I don't want them to be spoiled by us having to rush..that's not any fun! Anyhow, Derek suggested that we just go to La Cantera for dinner & then walk around window shopping....and I'm so glad he did, we had the most PERFECT night! We went to one of my fave places for dinner--Cheesecake Factory! Of course there was a 30 minute wait, but instead of that stressing us out as we frantically watched the clock worrying we'd be late for a movie....we got to leisurely enjoy some people-watching while waiting for our table . It was so nice, and it didn't hurt that we got to wait for our table in the beautiful weather! After dinner, we walked around and Derek let me indulge in some birthday shopping. :) 

 

I felt like we were re-living our pre-kids days on our date night! When we lived in Virginia, my hair salon was in an upscale mall. I would always get my hair cut on a Friday evening after work, and then Derek would meet me at the mall afterward for dinner at Cheesecake Factory. After dinner, we would walk around and shop before heading home. It may not seem like a big deal, but it was so fun to celebrate my birthday feeling like our old selves! ;)

 

So far 32 is off to a great start...here is how we spent our day today! ;)

 

I was sitting in the shade "supervising" :)

Can't wait to see what else 32 has in store for me!!