Exciting things!

So much exciting stuff seems to be happening! This is my one week off before my three online summer classes (A.K.A. Eight weeks of hell), and I have so many things I want to at the very least get started on. Before I tell you about all of my exciting projects (I think I'll put all of this in another post later this week), let me recap Friday for you.

Friday was my beautiful mother's 39th (wink) birthday. I was able to spend the entire day with her, and boy was it a fabulous day. We started it off with breakfast at Ram's Horn. I tried to convince my mom to steal the syrup pourer but she said there were not enough people in the restaurant and she didn't want to get caught. At least I got her to seriously consider stealing it. Then we headed over to Solid Ground, a homeless shelter my mom volunteers at all the time and we scrubbed the kitchen cupboards. I don't enjoy all the cleaning, but that is what we do. After that we met up with Papa and Grandma Carol at our favorite Barnes and Nobles. My family loves hanging out there. We even meet up with my aunt who lives in Traverse City at the B&N in Midland, Michigan sometimes. Once we got home I started on my mom's peanut butter cupcakes with peanut butter frosting with peanut butter cookies on top. I bet you didn't guess that she loves peanut butter, did you?

Everyone enoyed the cupcakes, though I must say, I have not eaten one yet. For some reason I tend to skip out on some of my cupcakes. I probably shouldn't so that I can test them out. I do always eat my chocolate cake though. So good! (Some of that to come this week!)

So we ordered pizza and everyone came over. By everyone I mean all of my mom's adoptive children. All of our friends adore my mom and she adores all of them. We had a lot of teenager's at our house Friday night. We ate pizza and cupcakes and we played some crazy, ridiculous game called Dicecapades. What a random, weird game. We laughed a lot and everyone had a great time. Here is most of us. KJ (A.K.A. Ronaldo) was the only one missing I think. He,sadly, had to leave early.

Friday was such a fun, awesome day. I loved it just as much as last Friday. It was an all-day-long celebration of the most awesome woman I know, and I know that she absolutely loved every second.

So long for now, but I promise I will be back soon. I have lots of fun stuff going on this week that I want to tell you all about!

-Amanda