Happy Birthday to ME!

Well I am another year older - 33 to be exact and it was a pretty good day.  Here is the basic rundown with a super fun surprise at the end of the day for me!

First off I have such great friends and they take good care of me down here.  I went shopping with Katie and Tonya watched my kids.  It is amazing how much I can get done (and spend) when I am out by myself:)



I got home and had some beautiful flowers delivered by a "very friendly" florist... Thanks Mom and Dad!  Eric brought flowers home after work too!  My house smells like flowers - I am so spoiled!

Eric had asked me out on a date flowers and all.  He planned it all even down to the babysitter - Thanks Emily and Jordan!  We dropped the kids off and away we went.  Eric said we had a reservation so I was pretty impressed.  We got on the freeway and he passed all of The Woodlands exits - which really where else do we need to go to eat out.  I was intrigued and the further away we got the more intrigued I became.  We ended up about 40 minutes from our house and he pretended to get a little lost at a small airport down here..... well he was most definitelybnot lost and guess what we got to do for my birthday....



Hint #1 - yep that is our house!



Hint #2 about 800 ft above sea level.....



Any guesses?





This man loves to surprise me and I love it!  We went up in a helicopter! 


I have to admit my first thought when I saw it was - oh crap I didn't hug and kiss my kids enough before I left:)  It is always a little scary to do something a little dangerous with kids at home.   I soon got really excited because I have always thought it would be super cool to go up in a helicopter. It was!  We got to go fly over the woodlands, see our house, a couple of golf courses that Eric loves and the super secret new Exxon campus that is just 10 minutes from our house!    I will not show pictures of said super secret campus in fear of Eric's job :)   Towards the end Eric and I both got just a little motion sick - it is such a crazy feeling to feel like you are floating in the air. 

We had such a great time and it was so much fun to have a date with Eric!  When we went to pick up our kids at Emily's house, there was another surprise a cake and a bunch of my friends!  We are so grateful for the friends here in Texas  - they truly make it a great place to live. 

Thanks Eric for a great birthday and thanks family and friends for birthday wishes!