A Happy Happy 26th Birthday

Last Friday was my birthday, here's a recap of what we did ; )

Jeremy had built me this arbor for the flower bed, and when I woke up Friday morning I noticed there was now a bird bath in it! Yay! My mother-in-law got this for me and i guess it was hiding in plain sight in the garage for a few days and I never even saw it, despite helping Jeremy clean out the garage. Thanks Dawn!

Then Jeremy took us out to breakfast at IHOP. We had chocolate chip pancakes, which were super delicious. (Just ask Courtney, who picked all the chocolate chips off mine).

If you've ever wondered what it looks like to be high on chocolate, this is it!

After breakfast we went shopping and got some stuff for the living room. Courtney always knows right where the babies are in any store, and once she sees them and attaches on to one, it's very difficult to get it away from her. So here she is with her new baby. She's very mommy-like with her babies ; )

That evening we had family come over for cake and ice cream. Jeremy was out setting the sprinklers (since our underground sprinkler thing froze and busted last winter!), and the kids played in the water.

I told Jeremy i wanted a Chocolatey Chocolate cake with Chocolate frosting and Chocolate on top, haha, Jeremy's mom totally delivered!

Here are my birthday flowers.

The kids waiting for cake.

And here's Courtney helping me blow out the candles, which was actually a question mark. you know you're getting old when you can't fit all your candles on a cake and you don't want people to know how old you are!

Thanks to everyone for coming and helping us celebrate!!