Birthdays.

Darwin and I have birthdays 3 days apart.  We love having our birthdays so close to each other.  It's like we get an entire week to celebrate our birthdays!

Darwin turned 33 this year.  We really don't do much by way of celebrating our birthday's, but it's required to do a little something at least :)  Aurora LOVES birthdays.  She's been pretty obsessed with them since she turned 2 back in January.  Her birthday enthusiasm makes everything way more fun!

She helped Daddy open his present

I made this yummy Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake

Cute Rori on Daddy's birthday

Our sweet Savannah--hanging out and happy as usual!

We got free Noodles and Company for dinner, thanks to their birthday club :)  Then we had a couple friends over for cake and ice cream to celebrate with us.  Gramma and Papa came over later too.  Aurora helped me make the frosting for Daddy's cake.

She's a great helper!

I only had one #3 candle and didn't want to go get another one, so we improvised :)

After starting to sing "Happy Birthday" before everyone else was ready, Rori also helped Daddy blow out his candles and then we enjoyed some yummy cake and some time with our fun friends

I turned 27.  It was my golden birthday--I turned 27 on the 27th of June.  We really didn't get any pictures of my birthday, and I kind of feel like it's the birthday that didn't happen, just because I was SO sick on my birthday this year.  I felt pretty miserable.  BIG bummer.  A fever, body aches, chills, and worst of all--a sore throat that completely kicked my butt.  I couldn't even drink water without feeling like I was swallowing a mouthful of broken glass shards.  Not fun at all!  Dar was really sweet and was going to make a nice dinner for me but because I couldn't drink, let alone eat much, I settled for Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup--I really appreciated how soft the carrots were :).  I'm not a huge cake fan, so Dar made me some brownies instead with the hopes I'd be able to eat it, and I managed to eat a small piece with some ice cream, but even that didn't feel at all pleasant.  But, my birthday really was as good as it could have been considering my circumstances thanks to my sweet hubby taking such good care of me and managing the girls so I could rest.  I think my most favorite part of the day though was listening to Aurora sing "Happy Birthday" to me.  Rori's the best little singer.  I love it!

Dar's mom is a manager of a health center lab, and being the angel she is, she came over the day after my birthday to swab my throat to see if we could figure out what was wrong with me without me having to go to the doctor.  Turns out I had strep throat.  AWFUL!  I'm pretty sure I haven't had strep since elementary school, and I certainly didn't remember how nasty it is.  I ended up having to go to the doctor anyway so she could give me a prescription for an antibiotic, but it was nice to know what I had going in so they didn't have to swab my throat again.

By Sunday I was able to finally eat a little bit, and Dar's parents took us out to eat on Monday to Goodwood BBQ (one of my fav's).  I was so glad I could swallow mostly normal again by that point!  They also gave me a book, which Aurora helped me open, of course.  I can't wait to read it!

My in-laws are so cute.  They always make our gifts fun to open :)

Miss Aurora helping me open my present

Our cute girls again :)

Happy Birthday to us, my love :)