To My Surprise…

Yesterday was my 33rd birthday, and to say the least it was my best one yet. Natalie decided to wake us up early, say 3:45am, and squirm around in our bed for an hour until I finally had to put her early birthday wishes to me to an end and took her upstairs to her bed. After finally getting back to sleep I’m awakened by Derrick, Taylor and Natalie (Kameron was out of town) at the bedside with cards and presents. Caffe Latte anyone? Well that’s what I got, in the form of a Vera Bradley Little Betsy and Wallet. Derrick had also placed some packs of M&M’s (love them) in a few different places for me and a bag of kisses. Derrick took me to lunch at Olive Garden that afternoon. After work, I got Natalie, went to the house and waited on the boys to get home from Karate so I could go to our Ladies Meeting at church. I was told last Monday that we were going to have cupcakes at the meeting for my birthday. I got there, and there were no cupcakes in the room, just a few sodas sitting on the table, and about everyone told me Happy Birthday, but I never heard anyone mention cupcakes or staying after to get any, so I just thought I wasn’t getting any. (I did have some selfish thoughts but then got convicted because so far our classes have been on seeking god, humility & repentance.) So after class on the way out, I finally heard some mention of cupcakes and saw some ladies heading towards the other building. To my surprise when I opened the door, there were a lot more people there than just those in my meeting, plus cake, food & balloons. My sweet husband had been scheming up this little surprise party for about a week and I do tell you, I was very surprised! I’d never had a surprise birthday party before. It was so much fun! So thank you to everybody who made this birthday extra special for me.