Birthday Weekend

 I had a great weekend!  It all started on Friday when all of my friends at work celebrated my birthday with all sorts of goodies from cupcakes and chic-fil-a biscuits to breakfast for lunch and cake!  After work, I picked up Gracie and headed home to take a nap.  I got a call from Matt “saying” he locked his keys in his truck at the gym and I needed to come and let him in.  Well, lo and behold, in the floor board of his truck, this is what I found:

Then Matt and Gracie took me out for my birthday dinner at Olive Garden….it was so yummy. 

Saturday we all slept in.  I got the sweetest wake up from Matt and Gracie telling me happy birthday.  There is nothing sweeter then hearing your little one tell you “Happy Birthday Mommy.”  She also sang Happy Birthday to me every time we ate a piece of cake.  Too cute if I do say so so myself.  We actually did nothing but lounge around the house until we had to get ready to go to my Commander’s Appreciation Dinner.  All of our command is turning over this summer so he wanted to have a dinner to recognize some of the employees.  I actually received the “Liaison’s Choice for Employee of the Year” award.  I was nominated and chosen by all services for my overall skills and customer service.  It was great to receive the award.  It was also great to get dressed up and spend the evening out with Matt.  We never get a chance to do that often so it was fun. 

Today we did much of the same as yesterday with the lounging around after staying up so late last night.  This afternoon we took on a major project of planting flowers in our flower beds we have on the side of the house.  Planting flowers with a 2 year old is interesting to say the least!  She either wanted to pick the flowers or put them into the dirt too early.  One time she actually took the flower out of the dirt.  Ha ha….I loved every minute of it! I look forward to many years to come planting flowers with my little girl! 

I love this picture!

These are a few pictures taken over the latter part of the week.  You gotta love a little girl with crazy hair, who makes silly faces, who loves to do push ups and sit ups with her daddy, and can make your heart so happy it is just overflowing with love!  I love this little girl!