Happy birthday

My husband made me cry in public today.  Let me back up a second.  Today is my birthday.  34 to be exact.  It's hard to believe that I am 34 years old when I still feel like I should be in my 20's.  But I have no complaints and while most people felt I should be doing something to celebrate my birthday I have to say I felt content all day.  The only way the day could have been better is if Paul would have been here to celebrate it with Emma and me. 

Packages from Paul and my mom both arrived yesterday.  I knew Paul's was a birthday present, and some uniforms, so I didn't open it.  My mom's also had a birthday present in it so I saved that as well (she had previously given me a Nook so I wasn't expecting anything). 

Emma got me up early (I guess she was excited for my birthday) so I packed us in the car in our jammies and headed off to Donna's Donuts to get breakfast.  They have great coffee and amazing donuts.  500 calories later and we were home enjoying our coffee and donuts.  I ate while Emma played in her exercauser and then I opened Paul's present.  He sent me a beautiful jeannie lamp from Afghanistan.   It is sitting on our mantle as I type.  My wish didn't come true though because Paul's still in Afghanistan. 

I wasn't planning on going out to lunch but when I had showered and was ready by 10:45am we headed off to Cracker Barrel.  Since Emma got up so early she had her 2nd nap of the day while I ate lunch.  When we got home we found flowers from my sister.  After lunch we got to skype with Paul before he went to bed (4am comes early...fingers crossed he gets a flight to another FOB).  Right before we skyped the doorbell rang and Paul had sent roses. 

Em and I hung out at home until it was time to head off to the Hearts Apart cookout on the base.  Right before we left the house the doorbell rang again and it was Edible Arrangements with not one, but two arrangements.  Since I can't eat 5lbs of chocolate covered fruit I brought one arrangement to the cookout with me.  I was sort of expecting them to cancel it because it was literally 100 degrees out today, but they still had it.  Emma was a super trooper even though I know she was hot.  I brought a water spritzer to cool her off and let her suck on the outside of my water bottle.  Sanitory...no, cooling...yes.

It was fun meeting new people and my amazing husband had another surprise for me.  He called the Airmen and Family Readiness Center last week and told them it was birthday.  They got me a cake, balloons, a card, and sang happy birthday to me.  This is were the crying comes in and it was all documented by the photographer so keep your eyes open for a future post about where my picture ends up (AFRC brochure, base paper, base website...who knows????). 

I ordered a pizza when I got home which I ate with a glass of wine (yes, I ate a whole pizza...don't judge me) as well as some chocolate covered fruit and I also gave my disgusting dogs a bath.  Today was NOT a weight watchers day.  lol 

All in all my birthday may not have been exciting, but it was a great day.  Tomorrow I'm getting my hair cut (short) and having lunch with my friend Jessica.  I'll try to post a pic. 

PS Paul was not able to get on the flight so he's going back to bed and trying for an 11am flight.