Throw back to St. Patrick’s Day Parade and other shenanigans as I’m still playing catch up on our blog posts! Check out this handsome fella and his spirited St. Patty’s Day gear.

Finn loves to send Daddy off to work (“Downtown, Big City”) and this particular morning he was wearing Kevin’s bag and walking around the kitchen 🙂This week was my big birthday, my 40th, so I decided to take the day off work. I received a lovely flower arrangement from Mom and Dad, and also a colorful bouquet of roses from Jaime, Aaron, Lexi and Chase. My birthday was on a Wednesday, so I was able to take Griffin to school and pick him up.  We had a fun day together, going to Target, the BMV to renew my plates, and of course a stop at Graeter’s for my free birthday treat (a delicious sundae!). Later that night Kevin and I went out to dinner at Cap City Diner, where we enjoyed a delicious dinner and huge piece of chocolate cake.  They have the most delicious vegetable plate and I devoured it 🙂  When we got back home I opened the lovely gifts from Finn and Kevin.  Finn went shopping with daddy to get blush for me, and Kevin had life-size canvases of Hailey and Cameron printed for me!  They are super cool and we plan to put them in our Laundry room.  (Finn took this one of his leg, lol!) In preparation for Finn’s birthday we got a pre-reading on how tall his is.  He loves to measure himself (height and his feet – the special “tool” we use to see how tall he is).  This year we went to the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day Parade. It was our first time going and it was a lot of fun! The weather was warm and sunny. And we got to see Cam and Cyd play in the Dublin Jerome Marching Band too! I’m very grateful for my friend, Sarah, who insisted a celebration was in order for my 40th birthday. In all honesty I really didn’t care much about my birthday and certainly didn’t feel like celebrating.  But as Sarah always does, she told me like it was and insisted it is time to turn a new leaf and celebrate. So she gave me the option of a dinner party at her house or a spa day with girlfriends. Whatever I chose, she would take care of all the planning.  Kevin really wanted to have a party for me too, and I thought it would be nice to see all kinds of family and friends so Sarah graciously planned a dinner party at her house.  It was a really enjoyable night, complete with the most delicious food based upon several of my favorite things (avacados, chicken salad, steak, salads, desserts, and such).  It was a huge spread of food!  And Kevin made sure I had a Bunny Cake!  I’m really grateful to be surrounded by loving friends and family! Believe it or not, we didn’t take a single people-picture the entire night.  What?? Only pictures of food…crazy, but here it is! We ended the week with dinner with the Howards and Ackerman families. It was a Sunday evening and we basically had the place to ourselves! In other adventures this week, Finn made some yummy shamrock sugar cookies with Debbie (that we took to the parade!), went to the zoo, and the music park!