Happy Birthdays

I love celebrating birthdays. We celebrated two happy happy birthdays this week. One for Michael and one for America. :)

Happy Birthday Michael!

I surprised him with balloons and a card! He picked out his birthday present this year... a BioLite camp stove, pretty much the coolest camp stove ever. We had lunch at a little deli in the beach town that is just down the road from us. Best sandwiches ever. 

A little of his birthday celebrating spilled over to our 4th of July celebration. We were sneaky and stuck a candle in a cupcake and then sang the happy birthday song to him. :)

Happy Birthday America!

We had a little Forth of July gathering at our house this year. It was a lot of fun. (And a lot of work... my first time playing hostess and mommy at the same time! I survived with some help from friends!)

We had some good food. Farmer's market veggies. Fruit salad. Pasta salad. Corn on the cob. Cupcakes. Michael grilled up some burgers and hot dogs. Then we headed to base to watch the fireworks.

Baby girl slept through the fireworks. :)

This was my third and probably last year going to the fireworks show at Camp Lejeune. I was able to spend the fourth with my sweet friend and her little boy two years in row now. Check out how much little Mason has grown up! 

Love them! I'm sure going to miss them when we move away!

Twenty-Six Weeks

Posting this one a little late! Forgive me, I've been having a wonderfully busy week.

My twenty-six week mark landed on Valentine's day and oh, it was a great day. It was the first Valentine's day I've had the opportunity to spend with Michael. We started it out right by making some homemade cinnamon rolls (with pink icing!). We stayed up late the night before so we could exchange gifts after midnight. We tend do that with gift-giving. We're impatient. :)

So how am I feeling at twenty-six weeks?

Amazed. I can't believe that next week is the last week of my second trimester.

Big. My shirts are getting really tight! 

Hungry. I've finally made it above my pre-pregnancy weight by a whole three pounds!

Thankful. All my swelling from Disney World went away.

Achy. Did you know that it is normal to get carpal tunnel when you're pregnant? Ouch!

Tired. Yawn! Is it nap time yet?

 Happy. I'm so happy and excited right now! Loving life with the love of my life! :)

My birthday was yesterday and Michael made me the most delicious cake. Pineapple zucchini cake with cream cheese frosting! We ate what was left of it for breakfast this morning. I highly recommend you try out that recipe. You won't be disappointed. :)

Miss Baby Wiggles is about the size of a head of lettuce now! The Bump says that she has eyelashes and will soon start to open her eyes. 

Michael's Birthday Weekend Begins!

He was definitely suprised when he saw all the decorations and the cake!!! We went to go see A-team and then we had pizza for dinner. We're going to eat cake at midnight tonight because Michael wants to blow out the candles on his actual birthday. :)

Surprise!

I got up with Michael this morning and never went back to sleep (I usually do, I promise!) and am now working on like 2.5 hours of sleep, but I wanted to surprise Michael the day before his birthday.....I've been hiding this birthday stuff for a while.

After Michael left, I baked a cake. Yellow butter cake.

I got his present ready!

I hung lots of blue streamers! (And left a few blue finger prints on the wall.. oops!)

I put up the happy birthday banner!

Made cream cheese filling for the cake, put it all together, and frosted it with chocolate frosting!

Sprinkled the cake with dark chocolate shavings! And put on the candles!

And then I did all the dishes.

Now I am waiting for him to get home.

I think I'm going to take a nap.

Will update with his reaction! :)