32!

On March 24, I turned 32! Typing that out...feels really old! But I know it's not :) I had a wonderful birthday celebration this year. Tim surprised me on work Friday when I got home - with these beautiful roses, a wonderful, sweet card from him & Carter AND Cook Like a Rock Star. A cookbook I have been wanting for some time! The 3 of us went to dinner that night at our favorite place, Salsa Tex Mex. Saturday, we got to have some good family time together (including time at the park with DD and Pops), and then some awesome time together with great friends and a wonderful dinner at Jasper's to conclude it all. (Yum - to say the least!). It was a wonderful birthday - I am so blessed to have been able to spend time with great friends & family - and am so thankful for all the birthday wishes I received! :) BEST PART OF IT ALL - My sweet, precious little boy singing "Happy Birthday" to me. See the video at the end of the post. Melts my heart...

Spring Break Fun!

Spring Break this year was AWESOME! We had some really beautiful weather, so we got to spend lots of time outside. And we had a visit from Gigi! Fun times! So here is a little about our week...We started off at the Fort Worth Zoo - along with everyone else in the DFW area! But we of course had a blast. Carter LOVES animals. All kinds really. But he stood watching the giraffes the longest...the giraffes? I don't know...but we had to trick him into leaving. I myself am more of a monkey person. All the animals seemed to be out enjoying the beautiful weather, just like we were. So it was a wonderful, wonderful day!

Merry Go-Rounds - new favorite thing!

Climbing up and standing on the fences was his FAVORITE thing to do! So you'll see a theme in some of these pics...

Time for lunch I guess - C was getting a little fussy (and throwing himself down on the ground occasionally! It was so hard not to laugh...)

Sticks. Sticks are what is in his mouth! He picked them up all day long...as well as leaves? Someone should have told him driving all the way to Fort Worth for sticks / leaves was a BIG waste of gas...

And he still wanted to pet the snake, just like last year! Yuck...

After our zoo trip, we met Daddy at our favorite place for dinner, Salsa Tex Mex!

The next day, we went shopping at Stonebriar Mall! Of course Mom and I had the most fun shopping - but Carter had a great time playing in the play-area and riding the Merry-Go-Round!

The rest of the week, we did all kinds of fun stuff outside, like playing on the playground, planting flowers in the garden, etc. Carter also had a St. Patrick's Day party at school where he got lots of goodies! All in all, a really awesome week :)

I couldn't resist posting the pic below. Carter has started putting his toys in timeout...and this was one day when ALL of his Thomas the Tank Engines were in trouble. Too funny!