Oh Happy Day!!

TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can...
~ By Anne Bradstreet

Sooooo, MY dear and loving husband spoiled me rotten for my birthday this year! First, he got up and made me breakfast - pancakes, bacon, fresh strawberries, oj and coffee. After a while I opened my presents, which he SO creatively wrapped in pages from one of my COSMO mags. I loved it!!! He got me the novel I requested - The Postmistress (which I read in 5 days and was just as fantastic as I'd heard it was!) and an Ipod touch (which, since then, we have both spent many hours playing games and listening to music on)!



Then in the evening my "gorgeous hunky husband" (as Aunt Susie has lovingly dubbed him =) made me dinner - spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread and some wine! Mmmm!


We watched Avatar together (my first time - SO GOOD!) while he was baking my birthday cake!!! Yes, that's right ladies, you heard me correctly. My husband baked me a birthday cake. On his own, without me asking or hinting or anything. Totally blew me away. Chocolate cake with chocolate icing and polka dot party candles to boot! And let me just say, it was fantastic. =)




Thank you to my sweet husband for planning ahead and taking off work for my birthday, and then lavishing me with your love, gifts, time and sweet companionship. I am so in love with you, so thankful for you, and SO looking forward to what this year ahead has to offer us!! =) xoxox

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! =)

I got a birthday box from TWF!!! =) It was filled with some very special cards and presents from all the members still residing in MD - so fun!! (I don't know why some of the pictures are turned the wrong way but I can't seem to fix them...sorrow.)

The Geigers sent me 2 tea shop mystery books (to be read while sipping tea and munching on a little something, of course) and some mentos!

The Biffies sent a pink beeswax candle, a keychain, earrings, some birthday money and some books I'd asked Aunt Judy if I could borrow!

The Mustakas' sent a video game for Joe so he wouldn't feel left out ;) and - made by Laura - a wall hanging paying tribute to one of our (our = me and my sisters & our = joe and I) favorite children's books, and a limited edition special order reversable apron!!

Mom and Dad sent candy, four different types of cookie mixes (peanut butter, oatmeal, sugar cookie and double chocolate chunk), a microfiber cleaning rag and some birthday money!

Thank you all sooo much for making sure I feel very loved even from so far away! I enjoyed all our birthday video chats and opening presents with you! xoxox

HAAAAPPY BURFDAY BURFDAY BURFDAY!!

I got a birthday package from the Burnisons!!!

Inside I found lots of cards and letters and pictures and stories, along with glitter Easter egg dye (for next year of course!) and 2 really pretty necklace pendants! They were also the first ones I got to video chat with on my birthday! Thank you all so much for helping me celebrate!! Aunt Gigi loves you!!!!! xoxox

M*A*S*H

Saw this guy coming in over the mountains to land on base and immediately the theme song to M*A*S*H started playing in my head. Crazy how we're living in the same place as the "United States Army field hospital somewhere near the front lines". Oh how time changes everything...xoxox

JACKPOT!!!

A BIG shout out to Chris & Mel for hooking us up for Easter!! =)

They sent us two packages, one full of, get this - two 4 pound boxes of twizzlers,

and another box with a magazine for me (Better Homes and Gardens) and one for Joe (PlayStation), an awesome pink journal (perfect!)

and lots of Peeps!!!

Thank you so much guys!!!! xoxox

(P.S. Photo of Chris & Mel courtesy of Nikki Kauzlarich. She so kindly has kept it up on her Facebook page from our trip down to FL, which was awesome, because all of my pics from that trip are stored on our other computer, which is still on it's way over here, and I therefore didn't have a pic of Chris & Mel to post. But now I do 'cuz I stole it. So yay. =)

Joe's new favorite toy

Shout out to Dad...

(shown getting ready to play with his grandsons at Thanksgiving =)


for taking the time to mail Joe a new game he ordered. Thank you, thank you!!


And yes, Joe is fast becoming the new God of War. =)

xoxox

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"EVOO isn't just for salad. Drizzle it on strands for a silky effect stat.



For strong, nourished strands:

Warm 1 cup olive oil in the microwave until it's lukewarm, then pour over wet hair, combing it through from roots to tips. Wrap a towel around your head, and hang our for 20 minutes. Then rinse, shampoo, and condition to lock in moisture." - Feb. 2010 COSMO, pg. 190



(I have tried this weekly for over a month. The results? GREAT! =) xoxox