How I spent my birthday

It was an awesome birthday yesterday. I am now in a new age bracket and loving it :-). So far, its been FABULOUS!!!
The celebration started on Tuesday when I came home to this bouquet of fruits from Edible arrangements and a box of chocolate covered bananas, strawberries and apples. YUM YUM YUM!!! I am still feasting on fruits 2-days later.



I woke up around 7am on my birthday which is quite late for me but I wanted to get JOE ready to go to the Nanny's. I don't work on my birthday so I took the day off :-).

JOE was dropped off by her dad instead of being at home. I wanted a quiet house :-).
To kick off the day, this was my morning devotional reading from Our Daily Bread.

Definitely a special day for me :-). It was bound to be after that message :-).

After they left, I went for a long 3-mile walk. Then came home and feasted on some chocolate covered pineapples. YUM!!!

After getting some fruity refreshments, I decided to sew a skirt for JOE using this pattern I found on Pinterest. I figured it'll be my birthday gift to her since it is my first birthday as a mom :-).
It was pretty easy to follow and the hardest part was figuring out her measurement. After that, following the instructions was easy. It took me a total of about 80-minutes. I know it says 30-minutes but I had to undo a couple of seams twice because I didn't read the instructions properly.
The picture below is an example. I should have pinned it with the fabric on top the elastic and not below. I realized that after I took the picture :-).

Here's the finished product. I will put up another post tomorrow of my little princess wearing it. 

Couldn't find a plain short sleeved onesie so I used this one just to show what the complete ensemble will look like.

After sewing, it was off to the nail spa to get a manicure/pedicure. I haven't gotten one since the end of July because I have just been so gosh darn busy. It was nice to relax a bit and pamper myself :-).

When I got home, I noticed that JOE's birthday invitations and stickers had arrived. So I decided to get to work on those. 

Here is what the finished gift bags will look like.

A close up picture of the stickers on the gift bags. It reads "The Party is over, I'm officially ONE! Thanks for coming, I hope you had fun!"

These boxes will be filled with animal crackers since it is a jungle/animal themed party. This sticker reads "I really am glad you could make it!"

The birthday invite. I love the way it turned out.

Shortly after I finished, hubby arrived home with a cake and roses. This cake was DELISH! It is a buttercream frosting with chocolate mousse in the middle of the cake.

Hubby is so sweet. The roses represent each of us, hubby, J & JOE. 

We quickly changed and headed out for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. We are going to go out and officially celebrate on Saturday but since its a weekday and we had JOE, we wanted to stay close to home.

Overall, it was an AWESOME birthday! I received so many text messages, emails, phone calls, cards and Facebook posts. I truly truly felt really special. 

The day really allowed me to reflect on God's goodness on my life and all I can say is "Thank you Lord for your awesome blessings in my life!"