52 Weeks of Happiness Week 42

My sweet guy's SECOND birthday was Saturday!

We had friends and family celebrating with us, and it was lovely. We are so happy and lucky to have so many wonderful friends who want to celebrate our 2 year journey with our guy. Here's to the third year!

We had a circle theme-so we had circle food and decorations. Simple and sweet. And, I swear, our child turned two and he started talking in three word sentences. Wow. So big.

Happy birthday, sweet baby boy!

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 34

It's Tuesday. WAY late for the post, but I'm here.

I'm late because I haven't sat down to upload a picture for this week, so I'll publish this now, and stick a picture in later...

But for this week, it was organizing my hubby's 30th birthday weekend.

On Friday night, his best grad school friend came in from Chattanooga to visit. That was the biggest surprise of the weekend.

Saturday night was the big surprise party. We went to a new (to us) restaurant and had about 12 of his friends there. Balloons, a photo guest book, pictures spread all over the table from birth to a few months ago, a few presents here and there, the best cupcakes in Memphis, and lots of laughs.

It took up my whole week, and I loved every minute of it.



It's so easy to do something like that for someone you love so much.

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 17

I am a little late this week because I went on a weekend trip, but that's for this current week, not Week 17. For week 17, my birthday.

I have spent five birthdays with hubby busy doing something else, (grad school away for four years, conference this year). We celebrated Father's Day and my birthday this past Saturday, and I had friends to take me out on my actual birthday (Tuesday). We went to a restaurant that hubby doesn't like but I LOVE, so that was great! My MIL made me dinner at my house on Monday night, and Tuesday I arranged for a babysitter in the late morning so I could go poolside solo.

This WOULD be the day it rained. I came back home, changed out of my swimsuit, and since I had a sitter, I decided to make the best of it. Pedicure.

And of course, I must go to the place around the corner from my house that offers wine. There are a few places around here that offer it, but don't charge. No need for a liquor license if you don't charge, and I'm quite sure it helps business. So I headed there to get a spontaneous, much needed, first-time this year pedicure.



Maybe next year I'll have my hubby with me for my birthday, but I certainly can make it work going (almost) solo!