I just wanted to share on here how much my wonderful husband and friends (and co-workers, too) did to make my birthday special last week. I wasn't really sure how I felt about turning 30, but I knew it was a milestone, and I wanted to celebrate it! Eric kept trying to come up with certain things to do, but a lot of them were out of the question because they had been flooded a few weeks before. So we decided to go to the zoo after work and then to dinner. Before all of that, I came into work to a beautifully decorated cubicle (see pics) with flowers and butterflies......made for a much happier day at work and I haven't taken it down yet! We had cake and I got an Amazon gift certificate, which if you know me, I'm always buying stuff from them. Then some of my co-workers who also happen to be good friends brought in stuff to make hot dogs for lunch, too! Little did I know this was to throw me off track for the surprise party I had later. Some of these particular people were in cahoots with Eric on my party and they wanted me to think this was all they were doing, which was a lot as it was. So after work we go to the zoo and walk around in the significant humidity and 80-something degree weather. Talk about sweat! So you can imagine what I looked like later on..........then as we were getting gas before going to dinner, Eric tells me he left his Visa card at home on the desk because he had bought something online and didn't put it back in his wallet, so we were going to have to go home to get it. I said that's ridiculous, let's just go and I'll pay for it. He said you cannot pay for your own birthday dinner! That's just not right! HAHA So we went home and there wasn't anything out of the ordinary (people had parked at my friend's house a street away) to give anything away. I said I was just staying in the car while he went upstairs, but Eric said why don't you come in and open your gift while we're here? I wasn't having any of it, I just wanted to eat, LOL, but he made me go inside. I open the door and realized the alarm wasn't set. We've had a few break-ins happen in our neighborhood lately, so I laid into him about that, why wasn't the alarm set? Of course all of my friends heard that from upstairs, HA! I went up to the kitchen and there were about 20 people just standing there looking at me (they were so focused on being quiet, they didn't get a universal "surprise" to come out of their mouths), and I totally started crying. I HATE crying in front of people, but something about it just overwhelmed me. Here I had thought all that was going to happen for this significant birthday was a trip to the zoo with my husband and the stuff that was done for me at work (which was nice of course, but it was at work), and all along Eric had been planning this party for me. And Eric CANNOT keep secrets. Seriously, he told me when he started paying on my engagement ring because he couldn't keep it to himself. So this was such a surprise for me! And all the people I never can seem to get in the same room very often who are so important to me were all there! (those in Nashville anyway, no offense to anyone not living here) They even got me a donkey pinata (I love donkeys, BTW) to smash open and we had pizza and ice cream cake. Oh and my friend Amanda made t-shirts for all the girls that said I "heart" Amanda on them, so funny! I had a fan club! I'll definitely remember my 30th birthday fondly and it's not like I really feel any older. I guess some people have a hard time with 30, but I didn't. Eric had a hard time with 31 for some reason, so hopefully I won't. We did take some pictures, but they're not on my work computer, so I can post some later, but for now enjoy the pics of my cube. Until next time!
