The Big 27 (and a weekend recap)

Happy Birthday to me!  At 4:07AM I officially turned 27 years old.  I have come to the conclusion that I am perfectly ok with turning 27.  26 freaked me out a bit, but I am excited to see what my 27th year has in store for me!

Maybe the reason I am totally digging turning 27 is because I had a fabulous weekend leading up to it.

My friends at work threw me a surprise bday party on Friday since they knew we'd be off for President's Day on my birthday.  They got me a cookie cake....my absolute favorite!   Isn't it adorable?!

I could eat cookie cake all day every day (we had 3 cookie cakes at our wedding, no joke), and that's just what Eric and I did with this particular cookie cake because this is what it looked like 24 hours later.

No I'm not ashamed;  I enjoyed every single bite!

I also got some beautiful flowers.  Yes they are in a Chik-fil-a cup and they may or may not be the leftover table flowers from the Chik-fil-a in the building I work in. =)  I don't care because they look fabulous on our kitchen table.

Saturday Eric went to birthday shop for me =)  so I had the house to myself.  It rained all day so I spent the majority of the day curled up on the couch, although I did manage to clean the house up a bit for the fish fry we had Saturday night. It was our first fish fry of the year and it didn't disappoint! I made my first attempt at Eric's coleslaw recipe and it turned out pretty good!  I also made some delicious Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Reece's Piecies (just for the record they are almost all gone, too--I am beginning to see a cookie consumption pattern).

You are getting hungry, very hungry.

The cold rolled in Sunday so after church and lunch at Eric's grandma's house I cuddled up on the couch with the puppies and watched basketball games for the majority of the day.

A few other pics from the weekend:

1. I found these pretty little flowers in the flower bed Saturday morning.  They are always the first to bloom but mid-February is about as early as they have ever come up. 

2.  This is Hawk's "please let me play with Peanut" face.  We have seen it a lot lately. 

3.  Peanut got to spend some time out of his kennel this weekend--not running around, just laying on the couch.  He is still on the mend but seems to get better every day. 

4. My craft project of this weekend. I made them with cupcake wrappers, sewing pins, and styrofoam balls (I plan on doing a how-to later this week).  I need to put the purple one on a taller dowel so they are not the same height like they are now. 

I still have no idea what Eric has planned for my birthday festivities and it's driving me crazy!  I may have to take a trip to the craft store to keep myself busy until he gets home from work!