A Celebration of another year of life

Having had a birthday this past week, I'm now as close to 60 as you can get without actually being 60.  Traumatic experience that.  The celebrating started early.  R & B called Sunday afternoon and said they were bringing cake.  They know I don't like birthdays and that I have managed to be out of the country on my birthday for four of the last five years, but they were sure I needed a celebration.  We had the singing and the celebration and I was even happy about it.  Thanks you guys!

So what, you may ask, is the picture above doing in my birthday post?  Well, Monday, I decided that the present I would give myself for my birthday would be to finish a project I started in May--brickwork between my lawn and my garden.  It took most of the day, but it is done.  So the celebration continued.

Then on my real day, Wayne took some time off  (the TIME was the real gift) and we went to the temple, out to dinner, shopping, talking and out for ice cream.  I came home to find seven birthday messages on my answering machine.  Thank you, everyone.  Wednesday, I received a package from Georgia with pictures from my granddaughters, an ornament from Savannah and peanut brittle from Plains, Georgia.  Greg called to say that people down there thought I would be real happy to get something from former President Jimmy Carter's home town.  ;)  Ironically, I also received a long letter from President Barak Obama the same day asking me to help out by contributing  to the DNC.  Apparently it was sent to the wrong house.  Here's my stash:  (Check out the Y scarf and the Sudoku book and the cards hand-crafted by Brenda.)

 

Thursday we continued the celebration at Mom and Dad's house at lunch when my seester brought lunch and birthday cookies and candles.  Check this out!

Thanks to everyone who helped to make my day (week) special!