celebrations

In all the craziness of the flooding and our crazy busy lives I forgot to write about how wonderful my friends and family are that wished me happy birthday and celebrated with me! my sister nichole surprised me by coming into town (really she was coming in for another reason-but made me think it was about celebrating with me). Saturday night Nichole, my dad and his wife Natalie came by to have a little celebration with me...a couple of friends from school stopped by too! kim, rachel, myself, miary, and shawnean....rachel and i...... This is chris and my friend rachel's daughter murray-i think her baby mohawk is the cutest! There were kids like crazy running everywhere and enjoying the clubhouse..can you imagine this group in a few years from now (t-r-o-u-b-l-e!) we snacked on appetizers and enjoyed cupcakes from the cupcakery-absolutely delicious (and when chris picked them up there was no name-dropping molly-hahhahaa) it was a fun evening and i think everyone had a good time-my dad and bradley had a bet going to see who would stay up the latest...at about 1:30 in the morning when my dad and natalie headed out bradley crashed hard on the living room floor. The next morning the kids let me sleep in a little (since we didn't get to bed until almost 2 a.m.)-if you call sleeping in 7 a.m.-we had church...and then they made me coffee and gave me my presents-they gave me a big flash for my professional digital camera and an arm to support it (think of uncle david's big flash) and a few new memory cards-i know this may not sound exciting, but I am very excited....besides the girls surprised me the night before with a big gift card to anthropologie..to get my shopping fix! after church we went to lunch and then my family came over for an assortment of delicious desserts for provisions (carrot cake bites, chocolate/caramel tarts, lemon bars, and a keylime pie!) the weather was beautiful and i recieved some wonderful gifts from everyone-thank you all so much for being so sweet to me!..it was so funny-all alayna wanted to do was smell the candles i got! my mom got me some fabulous stuff for my bathroom(monogrammed soap, a beautiful jeweled butterfly hook and a "j" tile) and my mother in law kathy got me the bowl i had been wanting from southern living! is it beautiful or what? Thank you all so much for celebrating with me and making my weekend special!