Happy Birthday to Me!

Today is my birthday! And I'm going to be having one the above cakes today! I am pretty excited!!

It is from Boonzaaijer Bakery in Kalamazoo, it is my favorite place to have cake from. They are a dutch bakery and have other tasty dutch treats, and even chocolate letters at the right time of year. My great grandpa used to go to the Netherlands and would always bring us back the first letters of our name in Droste chocolate.

If you have never had their cakes, well you are missing out:-) If you are ever in the area you should definitely go buy a slice or a cake.

I Made It! (well almost)

I have survived 5 days of taking care of the twins, numerous horses, 4 dogs and 5 cats. Whew!

Well it wasn't bad at all, despite what I may have just made it seem like. It was fun! We did a lot of fun things and had lots of really tasty foods! Currently the twins are out riding their donkeys and I am finally relaxing.

We went to the library and I am currently reading The Hunger Games and finding it very good. I am trying to stay out of the book zone where all I think about is the characters and then forget about real life, but if I hadn't been watching the zoo all weekend I probably would be on book 2 at least and definitely in a book zone. So I guess its a good thing, I am in charge here.

On another note, my birthday is tomorrow! I both love and hate my birthday. I love it because well its my day, I can pretty much do what I want and for some reason I feel pretty special all day. But I don't really like it because I'm turning another year older, 26 to be exact. Where did 25 go? I feel like I just turned 25! and now tomorrow I will be 26! What?!

I don't really know what I might even want for my birthday, I need my hair hi-lighted so maybe I'll ask for that or I could really use some new make-up. I also need to decide where to eat for my birthday dinner, since it is my birthday I should probably decide. I am kind of leaning toward Olive Garden and getting the tasty ravioli that I love which has mushrooms and tasty sun dried tomato sauce. I think I may have just made my decision, now that I'm salivating and wishing I was eating that right now. I guess tonight I will have to settle for some Annie's organic Mac and Cheese.

Maybe you'll even get a post from me tomorrow on my birthday! I guess that will depend on what I end up doing with my day:-)

Brrr!!

Not only do we now have snow :-( but this morning it was 7 degrees! Super cold!
But I will admit it looks pretty see the attached photo:)

Off to church I go!

No snow, no snow, no snow! :-)

And yes, I am so glad about this!! :-D

I love that we havent had much snow at all, maybe 2 real snows. I know that not many people would not agree with me, but I am most definitely a fan. But then again, I could easily live where it is warm all the time.

So, seeing as I havent posted on here in well forever, here is an update.

Christmas was very great! I got spoiled at all of the Christmases I had:-) I got many fun things, even gnome pajamas! and a new front door! I cant wait to see it installed! I'm not ready to take down my Christmas decorations and see the emptiness that will be there. boo! But I think I may start taking things down tomorrow which makes me sad. I'm going to ask Jared to bring up all my storage bins and then I'll have to repack everything. And then it is going to look boring. Yuck! And that means that my Christmas tree will be coming down soon too, which also makes me sad. Its such a pretty tree. I really could see myself leaving the tree up all year but it might be weird to do that too. hehe!

I want to paint my refrigerator with chalkboard paint :-) Maybe to make myself less depressed about Christmas decorations being down I'll do this! If and or when I do, I'll post pictures.

I got a new dog! Her name is Zeena, shes a doberman and such a lovely lady! I'm very glad she is now a part of my animal family.

Well I am off to waste some time on Pinterest(which I just love!!)

Question?

Which bear is best?
False! Black bear.

Haha! For those of you watch the office you might find that funny. Either way I'm smiling. :-)

I am also posing the question how long can I go without blogging? Apparently quite awhile! So I am sorry fellow readers for the fail of monumental proportions! (maybe a slight exaggeration)

Tonight I wanted to write about how I actually really enjoy my job when I'm working with a pleasant and caring surgeon. Who actually wants to take care of and has sympathy and empathy for their patient. It's refreshing to see and know that there are still good people and doctors in the world:)

Well that's a quick thought since I am going to bed. And a little Christmas tree photo

Happy Halloween!

I wish I had some fun pictures to put up, but I dont. I didnt even help my sisters carve pumpkins this year. I didnt get dressed up and I'm working tonight. I guess I'm okay with that, although I do very much enjoy all those things. I did wear my pumpkin shirt to youth group yesterday and my I heart vampires shirt today. So at least I'm being festive. I have been enjoying looking at all the cute pictures on facebook :-)


So whats new you might ask?

in less than 2 weeks Jared and I will be in Honduras!! I cant believe its almost here. I am not packed or even really thinking about it, since its 2 weeks away. I'm kind of last minute about things anyway, I wont make a list, but I will probably overpack and then go back through and then not have enough(that is what I did in January). But I am looking forward to it, and I even got a new pair of Chacos! They are so cute and I got them for 20 dollars with free shipping from Zappos. That makes me happy!

In other recent purchases, I bought a new de-humidifier which is not as exciting as new sandals but its working well and my basement doesnt smell gross anyway.

I got my hair colored last week, its now dark brown and I love it! I also got a cut and my hair has since decided that it will curl again which I am definitely a fan of:-)
And on friday I went to JC Penney and found an adorable winter hat that has ears and a cat face and it was 40% off so I bought it and I figured since I was going to buy that I better look around... and I got two super cute flannel kind of shirts which were 17 dollars instead of 36, which is quite nice and I just love them!! I cant wait to wear them, maybe tomorrow even! But back to the story, I went up and go those 3 said items and then after paying, the cashier tells that I got 20 dollars of rewards cash or something like that, so since I dont really go to Penney's all that often, I went back and got another hat, also fuzzy and has ears. Its really fun! So now I have a wide array of winter hats rangeing from the regular to a cat, another ear hat, an owl, a sock monkey, and a super fuzzy kind of lumberjackish one! So whenever I'm hating my hair which could easily be tomorrow I'll be looking really cute regardless of my unruly curls!

Well I suppose that is about it for now, I have tomorrow off of work. Maybe if you are lucky enough /slash/ if I remember I'll take some pictures of my recent purchases:-)

Gnome names

I recently acquired a roaming gnome:) I think he may start taking trips with me, maybe even to Honduras! So I'm wondering if any of you have any name suggestions for him...
Please leave them below:-)

Also here is our first picture he made it to my moms house from the store, hehe!