The Working Momma: It's my birfday : )

Well, I haven't blogged in over a week, but it has been eventful the last ten days or so! My birthday was last Sunday, the 16th. I had a wonderful birthday weekend. Saturday night Nathan treated me to Hibachi with all my wonderful family and friends. My parents were there, Nathan's mom, my brother and his girlfriend, my grandfather and his wife, my aunt and her boyfriend, and some of my bestest girlfriends. Two of my great friends have babies that are both about a year younger than Miss Z. Zoey loved the babies. She is very into baby dolls right now. She holds them and pats on them and says "awwwwwww", too cute. She also gives them a bottle and tries to feed them cheerios, goldfish or other assorted snacks. She is too funny. But anyway, my birthday was great, and although there were very few pictures taken, we did get one with all the mommas and their girls.

Well, I know it's not the greatest picture of me and none of the babies are looking at the camera, but you get the point. Here is one of my bestie steph. We have been best pals since 4th grade. I love her so much!

On my actual birthday on Sunday, my dad cooked lunch. Pizza, salad, wings...mmmmmm it was delish! And Nathan and my dad both got me an ice cream cake. I know you think I'm crazy. My birthday is in January and I get ice cream cake, but I don't like regular cake! Needless to say, next year, dad and Nathan agreed to consult each other before both buying a cake. The rest of the day we spent at home relaxing. It was such a wonderful birthday surrounded by the people I love!

The rest of the week has been pretty bring, work and such. Then we come to last night. I agreed to let Zoey stay away from me. We took her to Nathan's moms to stay. She lives about 40 minutes from us and I knew she needed to stay, but I dreaded it. I put off taking her over there all evening. Then I tried to talk Nathan out of it because I found out it was supposed to snow. I was a MESS. When we finally dropped her off and I hugged and kissed her 50 times we left. I made it to the driveway before bursting into sobs...so hard. I cried more when we got home and finally pulled myself together enough to watch American Idol and Jersey Shore, haha. I slept so-so and had a crappy day at work...I thought about her all day and worked through lunch so I could go pick her up early. When Nathan and I walked through the door she started waving, then she jumped off the couch and ran to me and gave my legs a big hug and a smile. Those are the moments when you are so thankful to be a mommy. Speaking of being a mommy, Nathan's cousin and her husband have started a blog. Michele and Ronn had a sweet baby boy last January at only 25 weeks. He lived 13 days and went to be with the lord. Now, Michele is pregnant with her 2nd child and they have decided to blog about it! If you would like to follow their blog, here it is. Thought I might finish with a photo of Zoey from this week (shocker I know). She got this t-shirt for Christmas.