32nd Birthday celebrations

I know, I know, this post is almost 10 days old since my birthday happened on March 3rd but things have been busy and so I'm just getting to it. Oops!

After an all morning Church leadership meeting Cari picked me up and took me out to lunch to a neat little grocery/eatery in Staunton called Cranberries. Since we are on their mailing list they send you a birthday card with a coupon for a buy one get one free so that was yummy! Cari got an interesting smoothie called the "Lean and Green" and it tasted like cucumbers which was no surprise since that was an ingredient but wow, was it more cucumbers than green grapes or grape juice. Way to be brave! I stuck with the tried and true yumminess of "The Cranberry" smoothie, so good, soooo good.

Then it was off to the American Shakespeare Center at the Blackfriars Playhouse to see Much Ado About Nothing. Cari loves Shakespeare and we have been wanting to go for a long time and since this was a show we wanted to see it made sense.

The show was hilarious and they did a great job! I would definitely go back!

On our way home she surprised me with a trip to our favorite ice cream place, Klines, where I indulged in an Oreo and Smores 2 scoop ice cream in a waffle cone. It was soooooo good and that was our dinner. We took some ice cream to our next door elderly neighbor and celebrated with her which was fun.

Then on Saturday night some friends from the church and the neighborhood came over

for my favorite birthday combo...Chocolate Chip cookie cake and beer. Jacob and I enjoyed a growler of the Wild Wolf Brewing Co.'s Wild Wolf Porter and Cari surprised me with an awesome cake...

The big surprise of the night was in a tiny little box...a VW sticker on a round Lego piece. Little did I know that it was a piece for the bigger VW Camper Bus that Cari got for me...awesome!! What a fun gift!! Now if I could just have a weekend free to work on it!!

As always, Facebook was really fun to read with all the messages that were on my timeline and I loved all the text messages, phone calls and cards as well. It was a day filled with God's blessings!!