Birthday Cake & Presents

My mom & my little brother came over to celebrate my birthday with me last week, and they, along with my husband, spoiled me like a little girl. I mean look at this super cute cake!

I was so tired, when I finally got home from teaching school & then dance that, even though they offered to go out somewhere, I really just wanted to eat pizza with my family at home, so that's what we did! Look at the beautiful wrapping!

I am definitely bragging right now, but look at the nice gifts that they gave me!

Joel surprised me with a Betsy Johnson purse I've had my eye on, and a Seahawks sweatshirt.

My mom gave me cute storage boxes, an awesome monkey bank, and a teaching plaque and mug.

My Grandma gave me the beautiful necklace and earrings.

Any my youngest brother gave me a beautiful leather bound copy of the Wizard of Oz.

These boxes are so me. My mom gets me. I already have stuff I need to sort through in them haha.

The pages of the Wizard of Oz book are soo pretty! If you look closely, they are not only foiled, but sparkly as well. Also, Emerald is my birthstone!

I decorated my bar cart in festive pink for my birthday month :)

The pennant banner was an impulse by from Target.

My new monkey is perfect for the bar cart! I love it!

I love my family! It was so refreshing to visit with them. I've been feeling stressed and down on myself lately about some things that are beyond my control and it was so nice to be reminded on my birthday that I have a lot of family and friends who love and support me.

My birthday week may be over...
but why not celebrate it all month right?
Happy Monday!

Birthday Celebration 4

We have finally reached the end of my birthday celebrations...

We ended with a celebratory brunch for the May birthdays on my husband's side of the family over Memorial Day Weekend.

We celebrated at my brother-in-law's & sister-in-law's home. They just expanded this room and received this beautiful handmade table made by my sister-in-law's father, and added a beautiful light fixture. Swoon. It has become a family favorite for get togethers.

Family get togethers with my husbands family are always filled with tons of cute children eager to help open presents and blow out candles ;) We are officially the last of the sibling to have children!!

Oh, and did I mention we have 2 sets of twin nephews??

I am definitely in a pink stage of life. Our family spoiled me with so many lovely things!! I was so surprised!

Another funny gift story, my sister-in-law's know me so well, they both got me the same thing!

Cutest iron man I've ever seen.

One of my sister-in-laws makes and sells her own jewelry and she gifted me some of her bracelets! She is so stylish. Check out thewayweare.co to see more!

Finished off the birthday celebration basking in the sun with mimosas. Perfect end to a wonderful week of glorious birthday!

Happy Tuesday :) 

Birthday Celebration 2

And the birthday celebrations continued onto the day before my birthday...

Since my birthday was on a Monday this year, My Husband totally spoiled me on Sunday. He made me breakfast in bed. My favorite: biscuits and gravy complete with bacon, fresh fruit and coffee.

He had to go to a football meeting, but I had to write lesson plans, so he made sure to leave me with mimosas to help me relax while I got work done. It was very relaxing! I got a lot of work done for school and dance team and I had a pleasant time doing it. I felt very productive when I had finished.

The surprises continued when Joel got home and told me to be ready to go to dinner in a couple hours. When it came time to go he started stressing out about getting there on time, and he wouldn't tell me where we were going. I kept trying to get him to tell me but he kept it a secret! The surprise was he was taking me to one of my favorite stores, World Market, to pick out a present! 

The store was closing earlier than Joel originally thought (that's why he was stressed) so I didn't have a ton of time to look, but Joel helped me narrow things down quickly. We picked out some string lights for the backyard that we don't currently have, haha. We're hoping to move soon somewhere with even the tiniest of back yards. We cannot go another summer with no outdoor space! We don't even have a little patio or anything right now & we're going stir crazy!

      

These lights had me browsing through my yard pinterest board, day dreaming of a backyard oasis :)

We also picked out a bottle of fancy champagne. We don't really know anything about it, we just picked it because the bottle was pretty ;)

We decided to go to Outback for dinner. I had a blackberry peach mojito and the grilled Mahi. We also had our first "bloomin' onion"...definitely not my favorite appetizer,  but my mojito and dinner were delicious!

We sat outside in the covered patio and we had it all to ourselves for most of our meal. It was really nice and relaxing.

Me, basking in my birthday glory, day dreaming about dining on my own back patio this summer.

Hoping we can make it happen!

I have the best husband in the world!

Happy Thursday ;)

Birthday Celebration 1

I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend. Mine was full of more birthday celebration, family visits and a wedding. I got to celebrate my birthday a lot this year! The celebration started the weekend before. I think we should all just have "birth-week" instead of birthday ;) Let's jump back to the weekend before my birthday...

 

I finally got my hair done! I still can't decide if I want to grow it out or not, so I just got it trimmed and I went with a more natural hair color (I haven't had it colored since July!).

  I had family camping real close to my parent's house so we went out to visit them. We had a lovely view of the Santiam river from the campground.

Our group.

I love being outside in the Oregon country! Even if its a little over cast.

  There was a group of old-timers camping from the Newport Elks Lodge. They were doing some pretty good Karaoke, so when my parents heard their song they had to dance :)

 Sitting around a campfire in the beautiful Oregon nature with friends and family is my most favorite thing in the world.

My sweet cousin surprised me with a birthday cake!

Had so much fun visiting with April! She even got the old-timers to sing me happy birthday! Then they invited me over and made me request a song. I requested "Crazy" by Patsy Cline. They sang it beautifully. One guy told me I didn't look a day over 22 ;) haha

Our guys :)

  The Ladies :)

Me and my birthday band! :)

Happy Tuesday!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Sweet glitter headbands and bright lipstick I am 27 years old today.

This week I was mistaken for a high school student and I was told I didn't look a day over 22.

I'll take it! 

In honor of my 27th birthday, I am sharing a bucket list I recently made.

I've kind of had an "unofficial" bucket list going for a while now, but I think it's time I make official by sharing. Maybe that means I will actually do it!
So here is my bucket list of 27. In no particular order.
BUCKET LIST

1.       Travel—freakin’ EVERYWHERE

2.       Create a dance crew/troupe/company and dance and create for ME again

3.       Learn to play the banjo

4.       Do something CRAZY outside of my comfort zone that I would never do

5.       Go on a hike in all 50 states

6.       Go backpacking

7.       Die my hair burgundy

8.       Go to a rodeo

9.       Visit India on a mission trip

10.   Smoke a cigar

11.   Bless someone anonymously

12.    Hike the South Sister

13.   Have children

14.    Buy a house

15.   Go to the Oregon country fair

16.   Learn to speak Spanish

17.   Go snowshoeing

18.   Throw a surprise birthday party for my husband

19.   Sell a painting

20.   Host a dinner party

21.   Actually wear a flower headband in public

22.   Own a piano

23.   Run a half marathon

24.   See a show on Broadway

25.   Smoke a cigar in a fancy bar oops! Had this one twice!
25. Take golf lessons

26.   Have an epic girls weekend

27.   Take self defense classes

  Happy Monday! :)