Happy Birthday to ME!

I have lots to write about, but I just wanted to quickly write about my WONDERFUL, AMAZING, LOVELY, TERRIFIC, FUN, Warm and FUZZY birthday weekend. Friday night we went out to eat as a family (the 3 of us) to Zaxby's! YUM! Saturday morning, my actual birthday, Ryan went to go meet a guy to sell some bass guitar... stuff... after telling me like 10+ times "Hey Heather, Happy Birthday". He even woke me up at 5am to tell me! Then I got on iChat with my BFF Andrea and she emailed me my present. At first I thought, hmmm... she's emailing me my present? Then when I opened the email it was an E-TICKET confirmation for her to come out and visit us in a month! YAY! As she said her presence is my present! Then Ryan got home and he made it out to seem as though he hadn't gotten me anything for my birthday yet... and I was a little sad, just a little though because I knew he WOULD eventually get me something. And as we were making breakfast he said "what's that?" on the counter and it was a PRETTY GREEN NANO! YAY! He's good...and well, as in previous blogs I hint well. That afternoon we dropped Ben off at Ryan's parents and we headed off to dinner at Cheesecake Factory and then went bowling! We had fun, and it was nice to have an evening with our friends. Ben had A LOT of fun with Nana and Poppy giggling and playing.

Don't know if you can see it, but Hillary put my name in as Heather Happy Bday. Cute! (All the pictures are from Ryan's iPhone...so they're a little on the grainy side.)

Then Sunday... as if my birthday wasn't good enough, we headed over to Ashley and Jacob's for our usual Sunday dinner and as I walked in I heard a "SURPRISE!!!" Yes... I am one special CHICK! I am loved! Ashley and Ryan conspired together to put together my second only in life surprise party- and the first doesn't count because I found out about it before hand. But I was kind of embarrassed because I was in my "comfy" clothes and wasn't really dressed for the crowd- BUT it was as expected, a surprise! Delinda was there and lots of people I haven't seen in a while. I felt so loved and special... it really meant so much to me. My 30th birthday was so awesomely awesome. (Yeah, I made that up... so?)Thanks Ashley and Ryan, I love you guys lots n' lots.
Also... I will elaborate on this when it's not after 10pm and time for bed, but Ben's REALLY close to walking. Tonight Ryan and I were trying to get him to walk to and from each other by bribing him with toys. He took a couple steps but then chickened out and sat his butt down. BUT... the video shows how he's prepared himself for it! He loves these walking toys and you can tell he's gotten good at it! He's so big and cute!

More to come...