What a great birthday weekend! I got to celebrate my 23rd bday a couple wknds ago at the beach with my family, which was quite a treat. But this weekend was my actual 23rd bday. Brian made it pretty special!! Saturday we got to go look at golden retiever puppies in Rockwall, they were so little their eyes weren’t even all the way open! They are ready to take home at the end of September. Woohoo! We can’t wait for George. Sunday was my actual birthday, and Brian woke me up with several bouquets of flowers (see below).

This is just one of the bouquets of lilies!

Then, after the pretty flowers were given to me, he handed me a big box…. and inside of that was a smaller box, surrounded with pamphlets of literature about diamonds, etc… then naturally my eyes got really big when I saw the two big sparkling diamond stud earrings!! What girl wouldn’t want to wake up to flowers and diamonds?!!! *sigh*

One of my bday presents.

Then after church, Brian and I enjoyed some of my (our) favorite Cold Stone Ice Cream (bday cake remix- so appropriate) on a park bench next to a nice little pond in Plano in pretty weather. Perfection.

Obviously it was time for a lengthy nap before heading off to a fancy dinner at Ruth’s Chris steak house. We each enjoyed a very delicious and perfect, to say the least, steak dinner, then shared dessert #2 for the day; Chocolate Explosion, compliments to our waiter’s request.

Brian and me at Ruth’s Chris celebrating my 23rd bday & our 1 yr anniversary. Don’t be fooled by the Luby’s decorations in the background…

It was quite a wonderful birthday I must say. I have such wonderful friends and family!! Thank you everyone!