My 40th birthday

Chris threw me a surprised birthday party that surrounded it around my birth year. It was awesome! He even had all the items that were popular around that year. It makes sense because I love Cow Tales and those particular Potato skins. We played Balderdash and I wasn't really a big fan of it. 

Another surprise was my dad came into town so that was nice! All of my family was there!

I tried two new places. Coffee Links and Hollyfood! They were both delicious. I went to lunch with my friends and I guess they were in on it as well. Sneaky husband! Lol. It was a weekend. He had the party earlier than my birthday and then on my actual birthday is when we Hollyfood since I had to work on my actual birthday. I didn't want that weekend to end!

I feel like now that I am 40 I am just trying to get my life in order. I think I finally found my career choice and I couldn't be happier. Even though I almost been there for 2 years now. I feel like it took me a while to find my place. I couldn't be happier! I have a great store manager and it's such a great positive environment. I have worked at a place that was toxic; actually a couple of places. It makes a difference when you have a great boss that really cares about her employees. I also feel like I am like wiser and I can care less if you hate me or love me. I feel like there is a lot of people that I have lost since getting my new fb account and I kinda feel like it's because what I posted on my blog. I don't know if that is the real reason but they seem to ghost me for some reason and won't readd me. Chris said they really weren't friends with me in the first place and never were important in the first place and I am beginning to think that. Those people have to realize that those life experiences that I have had are my life experiences and you can't take that away from me. I have every right to feel the way I do towards the certain experiences and the certain people that I am interacted with and if you don't like it than that is on you not me. I am not everyone's cup of tea and that is ok. I am not going to force you in my life or my kids life. All I have to say that you are missing out on getting to know a wonderful person and family. Everyone that knows me knows that I would give me shirt off my back and I always bend over backwards for people when sometimes they don't deserve it. I am always giving people gifts and don't expect anything in return. That's just how I am. I show others how appreciated I am of them and how I enjoy them in my life! I also have gotten to the point in my life when I am beginning to except myself all of myself even all of my flaws! No one is perfect! And it's sad when we need to judge one another when everyone should be kind to everyone! I love all my friends and family for who they are even their flaws. I have those important people in my life and I so appreciate them and they know who they are! They also show to me how appreciated they are to have me in their life so I know I don't need to impress anyone and I can just be me like I have always been and always will be. I am not changing for anyone! And that is all that matters!!

 

Daisy's 9th birthday!

Daisy is 9! She is such a sweetheart and a very talented artist; she can pretty much draw anything. She is really good at it. She has recently gotten into Bluey. She still loves elephants and has since she was a baby. She will tell how it is. She is the baby of the family and really acts like it and thinks she needs to get her way all the time; we are trying to break that habit. It's the small things like not letting her have a bottled water at the store because whenever we buy her drinks she never finishes them even if it's a water bottled. She did really good at the store today; she only cried a little bit and moved on. We have learned if we ignore her and pay attention to what we are at the store for she seems to move on if the attention isn't on her. She is my birthday buddy though and we wouldn't want her any other way!! She sure makes us laugh and sometimes want to pull our hair out at the same time lol.

On her actual birthday we just laid low and went to build a bear and carve pumpkins. It was nice to all be together since we are all so busy

On the 26th we had her birthday at Kidzone. It's a new place on Antelope in Clearfield. Here she is with her friends. I am glad that she made friends so fast at her new school. Fun fact the one with the blue shirt her dad is one of the maintenance guys at our townhouses.

We weren't really impressed with Kidzone. We felt like it really wasn't worth the money. We didn't really have a host we just had random staff come into our room and bark orders at us. They didn't even have a separate opening for adults to go through and Chris and I think Landon (my nephew) both hit their heads on that shark opening. I don't think they put a lot of thought into it. They didn't even have theme rooms and the play area went over the party rooms. It's always worth trying something at least once right. I am pretty sure we won't be back. Chris even left a google review because he wasn't too happy he bumped his head because when he got home he wasn't feeling the greatest so that is why we stayed home after the party and played Jack box.

We got the cake at Smith's and it wasn't the greatest this time. I always got whipped frosting but the lady at the bakery told me that wouldn't help the colors pop out so we got buttercream. Daisy loved it and that is all that mattered. She even enjoyed her party and that is all that matters. It's all about her that day right? But you live and you learn right? 

Even with all the craziness that happened I was grateful for everyone that came to the party. We all enjoyed being together and Daisy enjoyed herself and was thankful that her new friends came and that is all that matters. We will be just talking about this for a long time lol. Thank you to my mom, my sister Jordan and her family, my sister Johanna and her family and Daisy's friend Declynn and Helena for coming to her party. I guess there is nothing wrong with crazy times because who wants normalcy anyways lol.