happy BELATED birthday ME!

That's right folks, my birthday was on Monday, the 25th, and to say the least it was kind of strange, but still great! Weird because it fell on a Monday, (Don't you hate that! That's the worst day for a birthday!) so we celebrated most of it on Saturday. Great because I was with my family and got great gifts! CLS, MHS, and myself drove down to Phoenix to have a little cake & ice cream with mi familia. CLS went jean shopping with me at the mall (I didn't buy any jeans) and then we drove around the mall until we found a restaurant we hadn't been to before and gave it a shot. In this case it was Benihana's. I have to say, I really wanted sushi, and their sushi ain't great. That's alright, it was like dinner and a show I guess, but it wasn't the best habachi restaurant I've been too. Definitely go for Kyoto's if your in the Scottsdale area. Still, it was something new and that is always fun! Afterwards we had key lime cake courtesy of Costco, which was FABULOUS, and ice cream. Then came the unveiling of the gift CLS was dying to give me. It was so cute, it was like a little kid that was trying so hard to keep a secret that they wanted to tell with all of their being. His excitement was of course contagious. So he brought out this gorgeous picture of the Manti temple, the temple we were married in and I was shocked to say the least! I love my husband to pieces, but he has a hard time with gifts, well he didn't this time! He did a great job! I am so lucky! So here is a picture of my beautiful picture and a couple of me and my yummy cake and not so cute blowing face!

CLS also gave me a gift I really wanted, a promise to attend the temple with me every month for the next year! I can't wait. I love my hubby! He is the world's greatest and is such a good balance for me! Eternity is going to be a blast, and now that we have MHS, I'm certain it couldn't get any better, well maybe with a few more kids it could, but that's about it!

Next up are some random photos from MHS this past month. He is hilarious! I am the luckiest mom in the world. I love him so much. He still loves working out with his Daddy, sucking on anything, including rope licorice, (and thus needing a bath) my edamame shells, his bottom lip, and his foam alphabet. He & I are holding a cucumber from our container garden and the last picture is of him riding his little car at Grandma's house. He currently LOVES to push anything and everything around and as of yesterday his favorite toy is a big diaper box that he pushes all around the house. This pushing thing started a couple weeks ago and he is pretty good at it, he'll turn and get himself unstuck. He is a smart little guy and so funny! With those big blue eyes, I'm afraid he'll get most anything he wants!

That's about it for this past week. We are heading off to Idaho for a visit tomorrow, so we'll post about all the fun next week!