Love This Life

I’m going to start with Friday before I move to the surprise on Saturday. Friday night, I went out with the girls to celebrate Elizabeth’s last weekend of being a bachelorette. We danced until we couldn’t walk anymore and I’m not kidding. My poor feet! It was a blast and I sure hurt for it the next day. Since my sister and brother-in-law, Dawn & Matt, came in to town to stay with us for the weekend, Dawn also joined us. Then on Saturday we had planned on going to Warrenton but Hillary said she couldn’t make it, Mom said she had too many papers to grade and on top of that it rained so we just napped. We planned for Dee to babysit on Saturday night so the 4 of us could go to El Tiempo’s for fajitas. I was dragging a bit from the night before so I thought after dinner we could go to the movies. We headed to El Tiempo for dinner at 7:30 and checked in for our reservation. They said to head out to the back. When I got to the back, I started looking for the hostess out there to seat us because that is usually how it works and I didn’t pick up on a few things along the way. I noticed my mom and dad and Toni and Cody there along with Hillary, too. I saw them in my mind but I was so confused I didn’t realize that it was actually them for like 2 seconds. Then they yelled “Surprise” and “Happy Birthday” and I looked around and said “Whose birthday is it?” I was shocked. Elizabeth, Brian, and Mariam showed up shortly after. See, my birthday is not actually until the end of October but we will be out of the country so Scott orchestrated this whole thing. I’ve never had a surprise birthday so it was very special that everyone came to make my “30th” birthday an awesome one. I’m still shocked that I missed so many clues. I was definitely clueless!



Yum – Aunt Edda’s Cake from Chocolate Bar:






Check out that goofy hat they made me wear along with a flashing pin and a necklace that had all these little anti-aging trinkets on it. Ha!