it's delightful...it's delicious...it's dawesome

Bliss. It was bliss, my friends. The evening before I had been doubting that my husband would come through this year – I was a fool. Jan is the KING of providing me a birthday of bliss. He nails it every year. And this year was no exception.

A few highlights of the day…

I dressed myself and the girls in coordinating outfits. Which leads me to a confession – if Laura Ashely Mother & Child were still in full force I would be deeply tempted to purchase matchy matchy outfits for me and the girls. I KNOW it is SO LAME! But there it is! Luckily for people like me there is J. Crew and Crew Cuts – which Millie and I wore(me the Crew and she the Cuts) and Clara provided the “accent” in a floral number – she looked like a little Spode dish…as you can see.
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Knowing of my deep need to be “matchy, matchy” with my daughters Jan provided this perfect gift:

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Eat your heart out Maria Von-Trapp. Gretel was cute and all, but she didn’t have plastic princess shoes like Millie D. And yes, we are going to make culinary masterpieces together in the near future. I am thinking a little mac-n’-cheese might look good on our aprons.

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Amanda brought us her famous cup cakes but with a new addition – peanut butter frosting. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Thank you so much, AJ!

Best of all though, and the thing that made me feel like an absolute love glutton was a website that Jan put together where every member of my family and some of my dearest friends wrote me love notes.

I just cried! It was so wonderful! People were so generous (I still haven’t been able to read it all).

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

P.S. THANK YOU!!

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4 Responses to “Birthday Bliss”

  1. Tess Says:
    May 12th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    I love my sister! I love the picture of you with your little girls!

  2. Linds Says:
    May 13th, 2009 at 8:03 am

    I’m so happy your birthday was wonderful! (I’m sorry I didn’t get a call to you.)

    I just spent awhile over at your birthday blog reading and listening to all that was said about you. It’s all true. Lize you are a wonderful mother, daughter, sister, and a dear friend/cousin. I’m privileged to know you.

    XOXO

  3. Emily Rich Says:
    May 14th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    I am so glad that you had a fantastic day!! I was thinking about you and hoping you were being treated like a queen. Jan as always came through with flying colors!!!!!!!

  4. Emily Rich Says:
    May 14th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    Also LOVE your outfits!!! I only wish I had been there to see them in person at church on Sunday!