Maybe my best b-day ever?!

My birthday was on Friday. I turned 38...ugh. I was not excited about the number, but I was certainly excited about the day. I really like my birthday-it's my favorite day of the year! It's the one day of the year when I expect to receive lots of expressions of love from my friends...and for the most part I receive it! :) This is because I have wonderful friends!

I started the day opening my birthday present from Rebecca. She had left it here when she was visiting from England a few weeks ago. It contained a mug featuring Princess Diana, European chocolates, some Nutella, a magnet from Wales, and this lovely birthday hat...

One of Rebecca's British friends received the hat as a b-day gift, she passed it on to Rebecca, who then passed it on to me! I wonder who will get it next!!!

My day was somewhat routine in that I had a few meetings, worked over in the Student Life office for a while, etc.. A special treat was that I got to have lunch with a couple form my home group - Doug & Amber Cook. We went to Memories of China to celebrate.

I received many special phone calls, texts, and emails throughout the day - Rebecca from England, Cara from Texas, Krisi from Ohio, my brother Jack, Dawn from NC, a shout out on my sister-in-law's blog, etc. It was wonderful! Not to mention the over 50 comments on my facebook wall! It filled my love tank pretty high to get all those notes/calls letting me know that people wished me well. :)

And then there was my birthday party with my girlfriends....