Birthday Love

Thanks for all the love on my birthday! It was a lovely day full of new friends, pancake breakfast (with chocolate chips in them! thanks American friends!), Chinese food at a restaurant called Barbecue, a cake that included so much butter and sugar that Paula Deen would surely approve, flowers, a few late night games of Settlers of Catan, and a nice rainstorm to cool things off.

A few days before my birthday I awoke (at 7am!) to a man ringing my doorbell to deliver a little early present. Thanks for the goodies, small group! I loved each of your cards and your words were very encouraging! I opened most of them a few days before my birthday while eating breakfast. I waited to open one based on the firm instructions on the envelope. Here a few pictures of pancake breakfast, flowers, and the cake with a singing candle!