Birthday love

I have such an amazing husband. He invited my parents (which includes 5 kids), my brother (which includes 4 kids) my grandma, and his mom to have dinner with us for my birthday with us and our 4 kids. Yep-20 some odd people. He went to a lot of trouble to fix my favorite meal (tacos) for everyone and had a wonderful gift in mind-but he found out about the lady too late so we will probably still have it done. She draws pictures from photographs and my hubby was going to get some pictures of me and my grandpa and have her draw us together in a picture in several different scenes. oh what an amazing surprise that would have been! I almost cried when he told me.

He is so thoughtful and so loving. I've never felt so loved and cherished as I do when he does things like this for me. No one I've ever been in a relationship with has ever treated me like I was important and special. I'm blown away by his love.

We had an issue with some of the invitees and only ended up with 2 people, but that's ok because I know who really loves me and cares about me.

My little Lexi went to the bookstore at our church when we were early one day apparently and bought me a new Bible. totally unexpected. My son got me a Caramello bar (which he'd been hanging on to for a month so i was proud of him for that) and my other youngest daughter gave me some lotion. My MIL got me some lotion, a MWS Worship DVD and gift card to LB (woot) and Grandma got me a Pampered Chef food chopper which we've been wanting! My friend Lindsay made me some Amish Friendship bread so we could have it for the party and she gave me a start. I was so excited-I've never had a recipe to do that with so it should be fun. I'll have to start making the end of the year teacher gifts ;) haha.

My oldest had prom this weekend with her boyfriend (well she called him that tonight...first we knew it was official haha) and my little sister came and helped do her hair and makeup. She looked absolutely beautiful and said a lot of the guys commented that to her boyfriend so it made her feel good to make him look/feel good too.

It's just been an awesome day. I've had some thoughts brewing in my mind for a few days but I'm not quite ready to put them down on 'paper'. I'm just feeling amazing and loved today and want to keep it that way...