Birthday Surprises

People have asked "how does it feel to be 26?". To me its just another day and I really don't feel any older. Maybe one of these years it will hit me but until then I won't let it bother me that I will only keep getting older. This year I could put a little twist on my usual non-reaction to "how does it feel to be another year older?", and respond with "loved and blessed".

Jim and I had been planning on going to dinner at PF Changs for my birthday. It is one of our favorite places and it had been a quite some time since we had been there. He made reservations ahead of time and made comment that they wouldn't seat us until our reservation so there was no need to get there early. I didn't think much of this. It was now close to our reservation time so we made our way into the restaurant. Jim gave our name and the hostess responded with "Your party is already seated" and started leading us to our table. Again I didn't think much of this except that they must have confused us with another reservation but Jim just kept following the hostess. As I was walking I looked up to see my best friend Andrea and her Husband, my good friend Vivian and our friends Laura and Godfrey from small group. They were all there to surprise me for my birthday. Jim had been successful at planning and pulling off the surprise. At that moment I felt so loved and lucky to have such a great husband and group of friends. All I could do was smile and smiled through out the rest of the night. Our friends Brooke and Hon came too and we actually walked right in front of their car as they were getting ready to park. Brooke was worried if I saw her that it would ruin the surprise but in reality I would have just thought her and Hon were on one of their last date nights without baby since she was due any day. Dinner was a blast!


The next day my mom and I had planned to celebrate my birthday with lunch and shopping. Before meeting up with my mom I treated myself to a new hair-do. Little did I know that since it was the first time I had been to the hair salon I was able to pick another complimentary service so I chose to have my make-up done. It was so much fun to have a new "birthday" look. I had a fun time shopping and hanging out with my mom.


To top off my birthday, the previous weekend Jim had taken me to the Coach Outlet in Carlsbad to buy my birthday present. I thought I was just getting a new clutch/wristlet purse but when I couldn't decide if I wanted a black or brown one and he saw me eying another smaller wristlet, he surprised me and told me I could get both. I couldn't turn that down :)


This was one of my best birthday weekends, filled with love, friends and suprises!