Birthday Bliss

I had a fabulous birthday. I had to work but it didn't stop my family from giving me a day to remember.

From breakfast in bed, to presents, to phone calls, a dinner out, and birthday cheese cake, I loved it all.

I'm so blessed to have had such a wonderful life so far, and this last year has been truly amazing!

A Pregnant Birthday and Helping Haiti

It wasn't a birthday of glitz and parties, but it was my kind of day... Well, besides the 10 hour shift at work.

I wrote about some of the things I did a couple of days ago so I won't bore you with all of the details. But a few of my highlights were:

-Feeling Spawnie move throughout the day. I felt like I wasn't alone when I was out and about at work. I even caught myself talking to him/her a little bit.

-My birthday dinner. I wanted TGI Fridays and I got a yummy virgin strawberry daiquiri.

-Lighting the fireplace, and snuggling

-Watching Snoop beg for a little bit of cake (no he didn't get any)

-Begging my husband to get 24 candles cause I hadn't got to blow out candles in years!

-Enjoying my last birthday as a "future mama" but SO looking forward to the next big birthday in our family... THE birthday of Spawnie!

The day after my birthday I got my birthday wish, I WON the grand prize for the Holly Jolly Belly Photo Contest by Bellybar and AVENT, so THANK YOU so much for voting for me!! I'm so excited and glad that my constant begging for votes paid off, and hopefully I didn't annoy you to much. A breast pump is another thing I can cross off my list! And hopefully it'll work well for us!

My birthday had me thinking A LOT about how I am SO BLESSED. I have SO MUCH to be grateful for, and blessings really have just been pouring in lately. I'm so grateful for that. Seeing the tragedy in Haiti really had me thinking how I should NEVER complain. There's so much poverty in that country to begin with, then the earthquake disaster on top of that has just done so much damage! The story I did on my birthday was about efforts here in my part of town. There's also a few efforts online I wanted to let you know about.

Kolcraft:

"Pctures of children crying in the streets of Haiti haunt television screens. Reports of a death toll over 100,000 leave many feeling helpless. At Kolcraft we are rolling up our company sleeves and reaching out to Haitian children in need and we want you to help!"

They're having a Facebook auction for baby products for great prices! All of the money raised in the auction is going to the KIDS Relief fund for the children of Haiti. It's a win-win, a great way to get a deal, AND help Haiti! I'm bidding on a bassinet right now.

OpenSky:

"OpenSky is influencer and relationship driven commerce. At OpenSky we’ve decided to donate 100% of our profits from now through Sunday to help the Haitian people. Together, we can make a significant difference. You have worked incredibly hard to build a loyal following; now you can use that influence to give to those in desperate need of our help."

Check out The OpenSky Project. For more information.

Also, my blog designer Danielle, The Desgin Girl is raffling off a free design and other things in exchange for donations.

I Just wanted to let you know about these opportunities in case you were looking for ways to help. Of course there's tons of other ways you can donate in your community or by giving to Red Cross as well.

My Birthday Wish!

I've had a wonderful birthday so far (hey... I still have 2 hrs left to enjoy!) I spent it at work most of the day, but my husband surprised me with a sweet card and one of the last two Disney movies I need for my collection. We went to dinner and now we're sitting my the fire.

Throughout my day I've been sneaking votes at the Bellybar Philips AVENT Holly Jolly Belly Photo Contest. I'm safely in the top 5 and the judges vote tomorrow, but I'm in 2nd now and I have a feeling being in first place going into judging can only help me!

So if you haven't voted for me yet today (you could vote once a day this week) please head over and give me a vote! I'll love you forever and you could help me win a trimester of Bellybars, and a really nice electric breast pump among other things. Oh, and I didn't mention this before but if I win, one of the things I get is an Mp3 player, but since I have one already I'll give it away to one of you! So if you weren't motivated enough before hopefully that'll help ;0)

Just click the "thumbs up" next to this photo here! Thank you! Voting ends Friday morning. I'll let you know if I win tomorrow!

The 23rd Birthday

I woke up today thinking "Well how did I do in that poll?" I went to bed last night seeing I had about a 14 vote lead. I woke up this morning seeing I had lost by 6 votes! 6 votes! We tied with a 31% lead... More than 200 votes ahead of the 3rd place blog.

I turned in a couple of hours early last night. I finished my campaigning around 10 pm...I was secretly hoping one of the other blogs would pull a Mitt Romney and endorse me. I'm pretty sure most of my work friends who voted for me either didn't know what a Mormon was, or didn't know what a blog was.. so thank you guys for chipping in! Thank you everyone else too who voted for me, and voted from multiple computers! I'll forever love you! The blog that beat me by six votes is a very crafty mommy blog, so if you're into that...

Anyway, I was happy with how I did. I've only had this blog for a month and a half and look at all of you wonderful people visiting! This is great! Maybe one day when I've been blogging for years and years and ACTUALLY have kids, I'll be more popular and win the dang contest. Anyway, I'm not bitter or anything.

I worked today. After work I went for another trip to Brazil. I almost chickened out but the receptionist talked me into sticking to my plan. I still requested the bite towel but I didn't need it as much this time. I'm telling you ladies, a lot of you say you couldn't do this... If you can have a kid you can do this! I can't imagine it being the same amount of pain. Plus, this is over in about 15 minutes!

My hub-a-lub surprised me with flowers at work today! Pink roses! If you couldn't tell pink is my favorite color. We went to our spot, Olive Garden, for dinner. Yum!

That's about all! Feeling a little under the weather and hoping I can kick it before my CRUISE Saturday! Woo! I recommend one if you haven't done one before! Went on one for my honeymoon, it was a 3 night cruise, a blast, and I'm super excited about this one.

You know how when you first get married you think everything is going to be all cute and perfect... Oh, that was just me? Well the whole time I was on our honeymoon cruise I couldn't wait to get home and decorate out apartment, set up the appliances and start cooking. Three weeks later I was ready for another vacation and four years later I'm finally getting around to it!

Guess what?!? I successfully made some cute baby bows! I'm soooo proud! You guys are going to love them! Want to see a picture of my first one? Ok!

I like the interchanging flowers and I'll do at least 2 per set! I am excited to have homemade stuff as a part of my first giveaway while I'm gone... Details posting on Saturday!

I'm off to enjoy the rest of my birthday, thanks again for your continued reads and comments... I never stop loving them! And once I get back I'll be a full-fledged replier too!