happy birthday to me

it's my birthday, but the kids got the presents!  grandma arrived from florida this morning and brought a suitcase of goodies for the kiddos (even though she said she wasn't bringing that much).

i dropped madelyn off at school where she took a field trip to the retirement community across the street to visit and sing some songs (she said they sang rudolph the red nosed reindeer which seemed a little odd but sounded like she had a good time).  while she was in school, mason, maddux and i went to the airport to get grandma.

and then it was back to school to get madelyn.  we went to the kids' (and my) favorite lunch spot - chick-fil-a.  since it was a special occasion, i let the kids have ice cream.  you can see from the video that mason has very little experience with eating ice cream - poor kid - which is part of the reason i had to take some video.  he gets the smallest amount of ice cream humanly possible on his tongue and quickly pulls it away.  it was just so funny.  he would get upset that it was dripping and get upset when i would lick off the melting ice cream for him to stop the dripping.


after lunch we stopped by the apartment so that grandma could unload her bounty.  the kids were very spoiled!  and i got a little something too.

once matt got home we braved the snow (yes, snow) to go up the street to cracker barrel for my birthday feast.  grandma thought that it was pretty crazy to be out in the snow since it was in the 80s when she left florida.  i loved it because it was a beautiful 'wet' snow that stuck to everything!  it was so pretty.

i don't know why i picked cracker barrel for my birthday.  i guess i just got chicken fried steak into my head and it was close to the apartment.  we had a nice dinner and grandma arranged for me to be mortified by having the staff sing to me.  i feel uncomfortable being the center of attention and hate the "happy birthday" singing part of my birthday.  worse was that when they came to sing matt and the kids were in the bathroom, so i asked them to come back because the kids would enjoy their singing more than i would.  and they did.

my birthday pineapple upside down cake was delicious!  and mason really liked having some of daddy's chocolate cake and ate it with his hands.

the kids sported some new jammies from grandma at bed time and they were pretty cute because they were so overly excited!

matt is getting me the kitchen i want in our new house for my birthday (and an i.o.u. for an ipad - long story).  it was a nice day and i received a lot of thoughtful cards from my friends and family which really helped to make me feel special.  love.