best birthday

If I were to make a list of my best birthdays ever - yesterdays would definitely be on the list! I had such a great day!

In fact, I had a great birthday week. Thanks so much to everyone who played along with my giveaway week - I loved it! It was a lot of fun for me and I think I just may have to make it a birthday week tradition. Of course, I feel badly that not everyone won, so this morning I thought maybe I'd just give something to everyone that entered. That was a nice thought until I realized I'd have to come up with NINE more prizes. Sorry! But stick around, I'll probably hold another giveaway at some point - they are a lot of fun.

Anyway, my birthday was a good one! I started the day with lots of exercise - a Jazzercise class, a 3-mile run, and another Jazzercise class (all that exercise and I stepped on the scale this morning to find I'd still gained weight. Really??? Do birthday calories count? They shouldn't.) Kevin made me strawberry crepes for breakfast. Yum!

Friends took me to lunch at my favorite restaurant - Macaroni Grill. Yum! The conversation was great (couldn't ask for better friends!) and I even got sang to in Italian! Then they took me to The Cheesecake Factory for Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake. Double yum! That is absolutely to die for! All of this followed by pedicures (I told you that I have the bestest friends ever!).

Meanwhile, Kevin had been home washing all of the windows and blinds in the house. Wow! What a great gift! It looks so great! We dropped McKayla off at soccer practice with the high school team and then the rest of us went shopping at DI. I love DI because I adore a bargain! I bought everybody something. I even bought myself a cupcake stand.

We picked up McKayla and the family went to dinner at Jumbo Burger (I had a gift certificate). Kevin and I split a gyro and onion rings. (With all of this eating, is it any wonder I gained weight?)

To top off a wonderful day, I even got to bed early and managed to get a little over 7 hours of sleep. Heaven!

Oh yeah, I got some good loot too:
Even sweet little Chandler used the "money" he earned at school to buy me a ceramic king head that I can paint?!? and a post-it pad (love that).

Thanks everyone!