Birthdays!!!!!!!

We like birthdays in our family, we like them so much we begin celebrating the week before! We just started the "round" of kids' birthdays just last week! (Post to soon follow!)  We typically do really fun events the week prior to whoever's birthday it is. Then on the actual birthday, the birthday girl/boy gets spoiled with their favorite meals, a fun event and a special date with just Jonathan and I. Sometime during the day we go around and each person tells what they love about that person, we pray, sing, DANCE, make signs and cards, and tell about the day he/she was born. We reminisce and we look forward to all that God will do in their upcoming year.

Well, this year, my husband and children made my birthday extra FUN!!! My husband planned an afternoon for me to be surprised by my friends and have dessert and tea at an old palace! I was totally caught off guard and completely blessed! We arrived at a beautiful resort, ate real cheesecake and had delicious caramel apple pie with coconut ice-cream! YUM! It was a sweet time with my friends.

On my actual birthday, I woke up to breakfast in bed prepared by the ONE and ONLY, Jonny (J-Dawg) Dobbs, overwhelmed with homemade cards and gifts, a dance party, a hat party, pool time, brick oven pizza at a rooftop restaurant, a movie night and a family sleepover on the living room floor!!!!!! It was a lovely day, I felt completely loved and blessed. Along with all that, I received many birthday wishes and prayers from my family and from people I feel honored to call "friends!"

I love God. I love His kindness of giving life and birthdays, and I am thankful for the most precious gift ever, eternal life, a life lived for Him.