Happy Birthday!

This has been a busy week! On Saturday I had some of my peeps (Cory, Alex, Nicole, Mike, Linsay, David, Ethan, James, Rachel, Callie and my mom) come over to celebrate my birthday. We went to the zoo (which ended up being insanely busy) and then had a BBQ at my mom's place.

On Sunday we had the family over for mother's day and I got to talk to Nick! Sad to think that I won't get to talk to him again until he gets home but at least I know that he'll be home for Christmas. He called on a member's cell phone so I only got about 15 minutes to chat with him but that's better than nothing, right?

On Monday (I had Monday and Tuesday off from work) I came to the conclusion that I would make a very good "stay at home" mom. :) I cleaned the house, went grocery shopping, bought a book I needed, went out to lunch and did the laundry. Okay... I may not be good at it but it was so nice not going to work. ;)

On Tuesday I mowed the lawn at my grandpa's house and realized that having work off isn't as fun when no one else has work off. Luckily I got a call from my friend, Shaun. He made me a masterpiece of a birthday book and gave me a few hours of quality hang out time.

After my family got home from their various places of work my mom took me to dinner and then to a movie. Star Trek. SOOOO GOOD! I feel slightly nerdy admitting how much I really liked it but it was the best movie I've seen since V for Vendetta. After the movie we did the Kanno present parade which is my mom's way of not wrapping presents. ;) I got a new skirt, a new purse and one of my favorite books, Coraline by Neil Gaiman.

So overall, a really good birthday... and I like how it turned into a 5 day event. :) Happy birthday to me and Nick!