starting the celebrations

My birthday is coming up (this Saturday) and I like to think it's worthy of at least a week's worth of celebrating! We've had a few packages arrive, and that definitely adds to the excitement, especially for Julianna, who asks multiple times a day... when are we going to open the presents?!? We've had the conversation so often that she now answers her own question. "when are we going to open the presents?" she says, "on mommy's birthday!" she answers :)

We had a little birthday get-together last night with some of our friends here. Erin Ashley used the newly-arrived "muffin man baking cups" and made cupcakes with little faces on them. They were SO CUTE!She actually went above and beyond in the baking category and also made angel food cake (my favorite!).

We also played a fun game of "play doh sculpting"... kind of like Pictionary, except you use play-doh to sculpt your clue while your team members guess. It was so fun!

Here's Matt with two of his teammates and his sculpted "smile"


And Erin Ashley and me trying to guess a clue...