Finally Friday....Surprise!

Well, it had been a long hard week - Jared had to work late every night & I was looking  forward to the weekend. Time to spend with Jared, catching up on all we had missed during the week! But on Friday my sweet man called me & said, "Guess what? I'm getting off at 5 tonight!" So, we decided to pack a picnic, hop into the Samurai & drive to Devil's Den. At this point I was so excited to actually get to see my man & just relax on a fun drive! So, I pulled my jeans on, grabbed my head scarf & my "movie star" sunglasses. We had a fabulous drive, grabbed the picnic basket & headed toward the new pavillion ....... and .......SURPRISE!!

I saw a huge group of people & they were all singing "Happy Birthday" !
 I have to say I have the best of the best when it comes to my family & friends - Thank you all for a great surprise birthday party! Love!

  You have to understand that Jared is so good to me & he really does great with all the major holidays, but my birthday hasn't ever turned out just right. So this year I wasn't really excited about my birthday for a few reasons :

1st of all, if I don't expect much - then I wont be disappointed ( I know I'm being a brat about my b-day)

2nd of all, I was turning 26! Which Kathy tells me that I might as well be 30..thanks a lot.

And 3rd, this was going to be the 1st birthday in 26 years that I didn't spend celebrating with Tara. 

I knew that I wouldn't be getting a phone call from her or anything. . . I miss her deeply. And since I shared my birthday with all the mother's around the world, I thought I would celebrate with Tara - I went to visit her & got her some beautiful flowers for Mother's Day. 

I'm going to post some more pics from my party & possibly some old pics too!