My Birthday week!

This year my birthday caused a lot of anxiety and stress, just ask Billy ;)  It turned out to be an awesome day, and an awesome week!  I love when a birthday turns into a birth week.  It started out with an ice cream cake and singing at Bruce and Karen's the week before.  Maddison was VERY excited it was our birthdays (me and Kara...still so amazed that we share the same birthday).  Probably because there was cake :)  We all had to wear our party hats the entire time or Maddison would not be okay with it.

Grayson giving me his pirate "argh!" face

My actual birthday started out with a few selfies in the car that I will now share for posterity's sake.  It was spirit week at school (I should share some of those pics!) and this day was animal day so I wore my awesome tiger shirt I haven't worn since high school.

At school my students were super sweet and kept wishing me a happy birthday.  One of them brought me a starbucks (double chocolate chip frappuchino) and doughnuts!  A group of my favorite 7th grade girls made me some cards and put them on my door and people kept signing them all day which was so fun!  Also my friend Natalie got me some balloons and made me do her birthday dance in front of the students which was funny (I forgot to take pictures of the balloons and signs!).

At lunch Natalie brought in a big surprise...a dozen cupcakes from my favorite cake place!  She is so awesome!  My work friends all chipped in for the cupcakes.  They sang to me in the lunch room and then we headed out to go get some in-n-out just to get me hyped up on more sugar.  It was fun.  I love my work friends!

My afternoon kids killed my soul a little bit as usual which sucked but I took some selfies with my 7th period class anyway.

 A note from my friend Rachel on my white board

Guess what my Mom did!!  That awesome woman sent me a birthday flower basket and jelly bellys that got delivered to me after school!  She is so great!

After school I got some work done and then headed home.  I was going to go shopping until dinner but I was super tired and hung out at home instead.  Once Billy got home we researched where to get my ear re-pierced because we were going to go do that before dinner but we ran out of time so we were going to do it after dinner, but it didn't happen then either, ha.  So we opened the presents Billy got me!

New ninja pants!  And I got some rainbow sandals!  Thanks Billy!

Another awesome surprise from my Mom was a big gift card in the mail!  She is literally the best.  You know what she was thinking about doing?  Flying out to take me shopping on my birthday!  How amazing is she?  And how much does she spoil me?  She's so great!  She also sent me a new swim suit!  WOW!  Thanks Mom!!!

We went to dinner at Gecko Grill with Billy's fam which was super fun!  My BFF Jen called me on my way there and we got to catch up which was great too.

Birthday fried ice cream!

Crossing her legs like a lady enjoying the birthday dinner ;)

Getting sung to...Billy was obviously scared of the people singing

We then went home and my visiting teacher brought me over some treats.  Such a perfect day!

The Friday after my b-day we decided to do the big deed and get my ear re-pierced!  It was intense.  We went to this scary body piercing place called HTC Body Piercing and got my ear looked at my the scariest guy ever!  But all the people turned out to be super nice and the guy helping me was so sweet and patient.  He ended up not having to pierce it and just stuck his little needle right through the grown-over skin...awesome I know.  It hurt like crazy but it saved me $15 so it was worth it :)  I am SO MAD I forgot to have Billy take a picture of this!  I did, however, get a picture right after while we were driving to Walgreens to get distilled water for soaking my ears in...super high quality and a moment worth remembering for sure haha jk.  AND here is a pic I got from the website of Jacob, the guy who did my ears.  Super creepy I put this in here.

I was so excited to have earrings!!

Soaking my ears in salt water like a champ

The next day Billy went shopping with me to spend some birthday $$ which was awesome and that night we had planned a little birthday get together with some friends.  We went out to eat then had cake and played games at our apartment.  It was so fun!

My new birthday clothes

We ate at joyride tacos...so good!  Love these people!!  The Bests and the Johnsons!

I promise we had friends over...Billy forgot to take a picture of any of the people :)

 We played some intense pounce and called it a night.  Super fun birthday week!  Thanks to all involved in making it awesome!  I am so lucky to be so loved.