Mommy's birthday surprise

Oooo! 3 posts in 2 days! Must be a record!

So Monday was my 3(ahem!) birthday. Honestly this year was the first year I actually had to think about how old I was going to be. So sad.

Anyway.....Monday was my birthday and to celebrate, Johnny let me go out to the Cheesecake Factory w/ some friends (and my mommy) while he stayed home with the kids. It was lots of fun and I got to eat some YUMMY food and delicious cheesecake. This has become a tradition ever since the Factory graced our humble town with its presence.

Johnny had me call him when we left the restaurant, so I knew he had something up his sleeve. I also knew it was 8:30 and my 3 1/2 year old was still awake, so it had to be cute. We pulled in the driveway and a little silhouette flung the curtain open in the living room window, peering out to see if Mommy was really home. We walked in and this is what greeted me:




And the reason I needed to call when we left the restaurant? This:


I had told Johnny I wanted a cookie cake, so he made me one himself! He was so proud and rightfully so! It's really good! Yeah, that's dark chocolate icing. He piped it on himself. What a guy!

Here's me and J.J. w/ the card he gave me:



And here's 2 of my friends who blessed me by coming to dinner with me (Thanks, Lauren and Laura!):



All in all...good birthday! Oh...and then last night I got to eat Olive Garden! Did I mention my hubby is going for the Husband of the Year award? :) I think he's got it in the bag!

What I learned from Little Einsteins this morning

I learned that this exists in Chihuahua, Mexico:

Can anyone hear me?

Is there anybody still left that would even care if I updated my blog? Sheesh...I can't believe the last time I updated was the day before Hadley's birthday (not counting my post that I started in May and never finished that I just posted today). I'm sure anyone who actually reads this has long given up on me and the only way they would even know is if they have Google Reader and it tells them I updated. Oh yeah...and facebook. Can't forget that time sucker!

So here's what has happened since the last time I updated (and most people who care to read this probably already know all this, so this is really just for my own personal diary-esque enjoyment):

• Hadley turned one (obviously). Pics of the bash to follow.

• We went on our annual trip to Colorado. Vacation + kids does NOT = relaxing time. We realized that if we want to relax, we're going to have to schedule 2 vacations: one with the kids and one without! But we still had fun. J.J. went fishing at the lake, I scraped the bottom of Mom's Jeep on some big rocks on a mountain pass (par for the course) and we watched LOTS of hummingbirds swarm our feeder. (Go check out the pics on facebook)
• I camped out at the Floyd Center (my old SNU b-ball camp stomping grounds) to try and get J.J. transferred into Bethany for Pre-K next year. That's right...camped. Literally. With a tent. I probably didn't need to, because once I got there only about 10 more people showed up that night (the night before) and a handful showed up EARLY the next morning, but I had lots of fun! Melissa Scott & Lauren D. came and hung out with me and played Skip-Bo and kept me company. Plus, I made some new friends and reconnected with some friends from high school that I had only talked to on facebook a couple times. Fingers crossed, we were #26 in line for Pre-K, so I think we'll be okay, since they usually take 40 or 50 transfers! (Sorry no pics...Channel 5 news got all the footage anyone would EVER need to see of me in my pj's after 3 hours of sleep in a tent!)
  
• J.J. started back at Sonlight Preschool at our church. His new teachers are wonderful! Mrs. Jina is amazing! We love her (and it doesn't hurt that she's a Poke fan!) and are very excited for what J.J.'s going to learn this year!
• OSU was ranked #7 going into their first game!!!! And we beat Georgia in our home opener, unarguably our biggest season opener ever! And OU lost! To BYU! So we went up to #5! And they dropped out of the top ten!
  
• OSU lost their 2nd game. To Houston. Because we couldn't play defense. At all. Now we're ranked #17. Today we play Rice. Any bets whether we'll pull this one off? We're only supposed to win by 14. Uh-oh. (EDIT: We did win...but not because we played well. 41-24 is NOT a good score against Rice, the worst team in their league)

Here's some pics!

Opening her present from Grami & Grandpa Mike over July 4th weekend

Crummy face after her birthday cupcake at church

Hi, birthday girl!



The other two 'H' girls, Hazel & cousin Halle

Getting ready to sing to the big girl

Dig in, baby girl!

Mmmmm...cake!

J.J. making his placemat at 'Meet the Teacher Day' for Sonlight Preschool

Best buds, J.J. & Will North, just like their mommies


I wanted a picture w/ him and his new teachers, Mrs. Paula and Mrs. Jina. He wasn't so happy the first time....then we took this picture:
I think he's happy now...what do YOU think? :)


What? I can't hear you! I have a banana in my ear! I swear that was not my intent when I took this one!

Walking to the classroom on the first day of school

An old pro at putting the backpack in the basket

Putting his monkey in the tree. It only comes down if he misbehaves.

He's really not trying to make a statement about Mia's conversational topic! There were 2 or 3 kids screaming all at the same time right then!

Bye, Mom!