Top Five Friday: Birthday Edition!

It's been a while since I've done a Top Five Friday, but I thought I'd do a little birthday edition since I turned 35 earlier this week--eek!

5. Date Night!
I wanted to celebrate my birthday at home with the kids on my actual birthday, so we scheduled a sitter for the evening of the 30th. We went to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner {hooray for gift cards & Slices of Joy!} and had planned to go to Top Golf afterward. Top Golf randomly ended up being closed, so we went bowling at Main Event and had the best time!!

4. Timehop Birthday Memories
When I checked my Timehop memories for the day..looky what we were doing 13 years ago to celebrate my birthday in good ole Athens--bowling!!! We had a big group of friends go out to dinner at Aqua Linda and then go bowling together! Such fun memories! Timehop is the best!!

3. Dress-Up Fun!
This is how Hadley and Brady greeted their babysitter before we headed out for our date night! :)  They had the most fun, energetic sitter ever, so they had a blast while we were gone!

2. Birthday Cupcakes
Brady was a big fan of my birthday cupcakes, and every time we would sit down to eat {it didn't matter if it was breakfast, lunch, or dinner!} he was sure to ask for a cupcake even if he knew the answer would be "no." And whenever he did get a cupcake, he always thought he had to sing "Happy Birthday" to me again b/c that's what happened the first time he got one of the cupcakes. ;)  Two is relentless and exhausting, but it sure is cute sometimes!

The pictures below would depict how I would find Brady every single time we walked into the kitchen. ;)

1. Birthday Love!
I got so many texts, phone calls, and fun surprises in the mail on my birthday, which was such a treat & made me feel so loved. But weekday birthdays as a stay-at-home don't typically feel very birthday-ish..especially when you live far away from all of your people. I mean I don't know about you, but walking your 2nd grader & Kindergartener to their classrooms with a 2 year old literally kicking and screaming in your arms doesn't exactly scream birthday to me. {Thanks, Brady!} But thanks to my sister posting about my birthday on Facebook, my sweet friend who typically joins us for storytime on Tuesday mornings {which just so happened to be the day of my birthday} realized it was my birthday and somehow scrounged up the time to put together a little birthday surprise for me at the library..which made my regular Tuesday feel much more birthday-ish! What a blessing to have so many people love me both near & far!