Happy Birthday to ME!

Last Saturday was my 22nd birthday and it was a great day! 
(haha  wow I accidently typed 21^st  and almost didn’t even catch it :P)

Lucky for me, Ben actually took the day off (since he normally works every Saturday) so we could spend the day together . So we decided to enjoy the morning and sleep in a little, which meant that we pushed our morning scripture study back about two hours. After we got up and did our morning study I decided I wanted to be lazy and lay in bed to relax a little more while my wonderful husband Ben made me a cute surprise breakfast.

Happy B-day Pancakes = Delicious and Special

I then got to open my first birthday gift, which was a SNOOGLE!! :) :) I wanted one so bad! (For those who don’t know it’s a body pillow that it specially designed for pregnant Women. Recently I have been having trouble getting comfortable and sleeping during the nights so this gift was 100% ideal!)

After opening my gift I got ready and met up with my sister in law and we both went to a stake Women’s conference that our stake put on. I didn’t really want to go on my birthday, but afterwards I was really glad that I did because it was very uplifting.  My favorite quote was from my stake president when he said:

 “Perfection does not mean to be without flaw or fault; it means to be complete and whole”

He went on to talk about how if you have made all of your covenants and you are striving daily to keep your covenants and do your best  then essentially we are a lot closer to perfection than we often think. I really liked that because I realize no one is perfect, but it feels good to know that I am closer than I may have thought.

Anyways a delicious Café Rio style pork salad was served at a luncheon following the conference, and believe me I enjoyed it with a full and happy plate before I headed home to see what else my husband had planned for the rest of the day.

When I arrived home I was sent on a scavenger hunt all around our apartment to hunt down one of my gifts. I eventually found the treasure, which actually was a small lump of cash that had been contributed to by several people for my birthday. It scavenger hunt was a perfect idea that made the cash into something fun and special just like real treasure. Besides that I love Ben’s scavenger hunts, because he always surprises me with how witty/ clever he can be.

The next couple of hours were spent shopping! I didn’t get very much butit was still fun because I had a delightful husband with me who didn’t complain one bit while I dragged him around from one store to another. (That was one of his gifts to me by the way).

Once we were finished we swung by Red Robin to get one of my favorite meals and headed out for our traditional picnic dinner at Fountain Hills park  where Ben had proposed two years earlier on my 20^th birthday.  The weather was beautiful and the scenery was perfect as usual.

As we were finishing dinner the fountain went off and Ben let me open my final gift it was a beautiful album filled with all of our pictures from our trip to Japan over Christmas break.  I loved it!  It was something we had talked about doing several times, but we never ended up getting around to it. I was glad he did it and that we were able to flip through it and talk about some of our favorite memories from our trip.

This is the cheery blossom photo album we had looked at several times but never bought

card games

please excuse the puffy preganant face, I cant really help it :/

This was my 3rd year posing infront of this fountain on my birthday!

We finished out picnic by playing a few card games and throwing around the Frisbee a little.

On our way back into town we stopped by The Golden Spoon for some yummy frozen Yogurt and finished out the night by watching a good movie.

It was a wonderful day to say the least.  This year is going to be a good year i can feel it! I’m really excited for all of the exciting changes heading  our way. Hopefullyi  can keep this blog updated. :)

Thanks for reading!

-          Lauri