Where do I start?

Wow! It has been a little over a week, but I feel like this post will be one of the longest ever. :-)

I guess the first thing to say is Happy Spring! I am so glad it is here. The weather overall is really nice and the flowers are blooming. I had a happy surprize one morning. Chris had brought home these beautiful daffodils, my favorite just so say " I love you!" and then I walked outside to take the kids to school and to my surprise, God had decided to allow one of my hyacnths to survive the racoon feast last year and it was blooming out of the side of a stack of pots. It was a fun day to be surprized by the 2 biggest loves of my life.

Speaking of surprizes, my family came down this past weekend to surprize me for my 30th birthday. They forked my yard, decorated my car and hung up a bunch of balloons and signs. The kids and I were upstairs cleaning up a mess made when a bunch of neighbor kids came over. Chris had decided to get me a hammock for my birthday, so he said he was going to go to the garage to start working on it. Unknown to me, he was actually letting my family in the garage so they could get to my car. When I heard the doorbell, I thought Chris would answer it since he was in the garage. When I went to answer it, there were my two sisters wearing birthday hats and my parents with confetti. They said they were kidnapping me and taking me out to lunch. We went to Teds, where Josh and Misty and Dacia were. it was a nice lunch and little birthday party. I even got to wear the awesome sombrero and be sung to "Teds" style, which was loud and inbetween the "happy birthday to you"s they yelled, "Look at Angel". Karen and Mary thought it was awesome.

After celebrating with the Williams family and mine, we decided to go to the park and play tennis and on the playground. it was a lot of fun. We came back home and they had brought brownie bites and had put candles in 30 of them. We had another little birthday moment. They made me this really neat book with memories in it and pictures. It was really great.

Thanks to Tim for reminding me of the squirrel incident! I had totally forgotten about that, but it was pretty funny!! Thanks to everyone who sent my sister something. It was a very special reminder that I am not forgotten and that people do care.

I know over my lifetime I have always had that question run through my mind, "If I died, would anyone really care." That book helped me with the answer to that question, along with Misty and everyone being there for the party.

Well, as I hate to cut this short, I have to get ready for work, so I will post the rest of this crazy week tonight after the kids go to bed. Until then, enjoy the picts.