Mac's Birthday!

We had such a fun time surprising Mac for his Birthday! We took balloons to his school and surprised him with a Tardis key chain to go with his Tardis cake that he made!

Yummm!!! Most delicious Chocolate cake EVER!!!

4 Months & Weekend fun!

Our little angle is 4 months old and gets cuter every day!

This is her in the doctor's office awaiting her 2nd round of immunization shots.

What a doll!

This is Mac and Zoey at Grammy's & Grandpa's Birthday Party. What a fun time! Good food, fun family and lots of activity for everyone.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mom & Dad!

I went to the RS activity Saturday and learned to make cute little bows for her headbands! Now if only we can get her to hold still for pictures!

Our little road warrior is used to her commutes to and from Grammy's. I think she secretly loves the car rides because she knows she's in for fun!

Zoey with the new toy she gets to play with during the day when dad is at school and mom is at work. What a lucky girl!

Shelves & Dinner

On Mac's day off this week, he built me shelves in the garage for my Birthday!

I think they turned out quite well! I LOVE them!
I'm glad I've got a handy man!

He also made this AMAZING dinner. YUMMMM!
It's baby zucchinis & yellow squash in a balsamic marinade, and a delicious pasta creation (topped with ricotta). The leftovers I had yesterday for lunch were DELICIOUS!

BIRTHDAY continuted...

For my Birthday lunch, Jennifer took me out, and let me splurge on a Piña colada at El Sol! YUMMMM! The Quesadilla was DELISH too! (Notice the cute top that my MO Mom sent me. I LOVE it!

Judy brought me down a birthday gift, my (former) insurance agent called to wish me happy birthday and see if he could do anything for me, Bishop, cuz Dez & cuz Al sent me B-day Texts. Uncle Trist hand delivered a Birthday card and cash, Uncle Dana, Jan and Al gave me a HUGE bag (3 pounds, 8 ounces) of Dark Chocolate M&M's the Sunday before - as well as my folks throwing me a birthday dinner with ice cream cake! and the perfect gift! Amelia drew me a picture, Linda and family called and sang to me, & I heard from all my brothers... what more could a girl wish for?

After work, I headed over to April's for book club. We were pleased to have the Author of our book join us. Annette Haws, author of "Waiting for the Light to Change", shared with us the background of her book and answered all of our questions. It was fun to sit down and listen to her!

Above: Teresa, Marilynn, Wendy, Me, Judy
Julie, Annette Haws, & April

When I came home from Book Club, Mac had a surprise for me! He gave me the coolest birthday card. In fact I play it over and over and over!

See! Addicting huh?
I LOVE it!


Then I was serenaded with "Happy Birthday" to me! by Mac
And I opened my present, a shredder! (I know, you're all so jealous!) But it's the PERFECT gift for me!



So, not only did I have the BEST Birthday Day, but Mac and I spent the weekend in Cedar City!

At the Shakespeare Festival we enjoyed dinner from the Pasty Pub while we enjoyed the Green Show. The actors did an amazing job on their performance of "As You Like it"!

Above: Us at the Centrum, in front of SUU

2 days, 9 hours driving, 1.5 total hours in the pool (I even got to swim my birthday (34) lengths in the pool), we had a fun, but exhausting weekend.

It's good to be back! Makes you appreciate your own home, bed, and I won't lie... I even missed the cat. :)

Guess it's time to get back to reality...

Thanks everyone for making this the best birthday yet!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me!

Yeah, I know I've been celebrating all week, and I still have a lot more fun to go this weekend, but this is what we've done so far.

Not only did we celebrate on Sunday with the fam, but I got a cute card from Gramma! (Thanks! I loved it!)

AND yesterday when I came home from work, there was this cute package waiting for me at the door! I got a bunch of fun things from Mom and Dad Backerman! A new sweater I'm wearing today! A check for a shopping trip it (my favorite place) IKEA! A gorgeous handmade handkerchief made my Great Grandma Cahill, and temple recommend holders made my Grandma Knell (and of course cards with sweet messages from Mom and Dad!)

Next, after our apt. with the staff at Planet Fitness (of which we're new members) we got a workout schedule and tools to help us in our efforts to be healthy!

Then off to Bed, Bath and Beyond to pick up a shelf unit and use the rest of our gift cards.

Then, back home so Mac could make me a birthday cake.
He had to call his mom to get the recipe... and wouldn't tell me what it was! Argggg... he only titled it BCP. Yeah, like I'm supposed to know what that is.
All of my guesses were wrong. (Banana Cream Pie, Bavarian Cream Pudding, Butter Cream Popcorn, Best Chocolate Pizza...) Go figure...

Turns out it was BOSTON CREAM PIE!
YUM!Side view of all the yummy layers

I LOVE sprinkles, so Mac generously topped my Birthday Cake with the perfect amount of sprinkles!Meanwhile, I put together our new shelf. It's a perfect addition to our kitchen.
(Now we just have to figure out what should go on the shelves. :)

More Birthday fun to come!