10-4 Good Buddy

I began and ended this day with a piece of cake.  Because if you're going to celebrate, you might as well celebrate big. Right?

Or maybe that was just my excuse for having two piece of cake in one day.

Either way, I'm wrapping up this birthday weekend happy, happy, happy.  I have the easiest birthday to remember - if you know CB lingo or if you're a fan of Smokey and the Bandit - all you have to do is remember "10-4 good buddy!"

This year, 10-4 fell on a Saturday, which automatically makes the birthday better. And gave me the excuse to claim the entire weekend for birthday festivities.

My BF jump-started things by bestowing me my very first birthday present.  Such a perfect gift.  I made a comment about something a few months ago and she remembered.  That always amazes me. And touches me. I don't know, it just says a lot when people pay attention to the things you say. That's how you know someone loves you - when they remember things and you don't even have to ask them to.

Then I got one of the nicest birthday texts, actually one of the nicest texts I've ever gotten, from a friend.  It was completely unexpected. It's always great to know people think kind things about you but more than that - it was just touching to be thought of and it really made my birthday special.

So I fell asleep on my last day of 37 feeling loved and extremely grateful for the wonderful people in my life. And just in case you didn't know, that's a great way to end a year.

Didn't have any big plans for Saturday. Our birthday celebrations are usually pretty low-key - dinner, family celebration - standard stuff. I don't plan my own birthdays - just not my thing.  That duty falls to my husband. He usually asks me what I want to do or will at least talk to me about it so if there is something specific I want to do, we do it. But for the most part, I'm easy.

This year we had no conversations about birthday plans.  He did ask me last week what I wanted for my birthday, which I found highly suspect because my husband's a planner, he wouldn't wait until the week before to ask me about a present. So I knew he already had something and was trying to throw me off.  He forgets sometimes that I know him.

Saturday morning someone planted the seed of bacon. It's Fat Girl Code 101 - the slightest mention of bacon and it's in our head. And once you've got bacon on the brain, it's over...So I made a bacon birthday breakfast. I did have a few other things in addition to the bacon. But none of them warrants recognition because....it's bacon.

So my entire family gathered at my Mom's house. Where we watched the Sooners get beat. The only blemish to my weekend. Ugh, what a disappointment. The game, however, was amazing. I love, love, love games like that. Well, actually, I love games like that. I only love, love, love them when my team pulls out the win. But when or lose, you gotta appreciate a good football game.

After the game we did the whole cake/presents thing.

When I pulled out a card from my husband, the "gift" inside was a folded up paper.  Immediately, I knew. I knew exactly that it was! So I unfold it and...wait. What is this? Then I quickly scanned the paper and it dawned on me - it was what I thought it was! Tickets to Red River!

Kinda.

It was a hotel stay during Red River. My fiscally responsible husband was still price shopping and didn't actually have game tickets yet because he was convinced they would go down. I'm glad he had the foresight to wait because prices did drop.  The loss to TCU might have helped...

He got tickets today so it's official - Red River Rivalry 2014, here we come!

So it really seems 38 is starting off right - think I kinda like it!