celebrating twenty-six

with age twenty-five, God blessed me with another year of marriage with lee, the pregnancy and birth of our sweet son, my second year of teaching & my first year of cheerleading sponsoring, and our first house.

only time will tell what twenty-six will bring.  i am looking forward to every minute of it.

last weekend, my parents came to visit.  their visit was huge on two levels:  the first being that my dad had only seen brendan for about 30 minutes of his life the day he was born, and the second being the fact that this birthday would be the first in quite a few years that i would actually spend with my parents.  they flew in friday night and we drove down to hobby to pick them up, sign and all (made courtesy of the 5-year-old daughter of one of lee's co-workers).  our plan was to eat at pappasito's afterward but since they had an hour-long wait when we arrived, we decided to take them to zachary's, a local cajun restaurant.

saturday was spent watch lots of football while my parents took turns holding brendan.  brendan is so smiley now.  in fact, he smiles so much that i am usually bound to catch at least one when i pull out the camera.

whether my parents realize it or not, they gave me one of the sweetest gifts they could by letting lee and i go to dinner just the two of us.  it was nice to get a little dressed up and enjoy some time together that was not as we were falling asleep at night.  we went to cafe express (one of my faves) and house of pies for dessert.

sunday, my parents wanted the breakfast buffet at humble city cafe that they remembered being so tasty, but apparently they quit the buffet several months ago.  oh well, we all still found tasty menu items instead.  we enjoyed a much-needed rainy day until dinner time when we succeeded in finally having our pappasito's dinner.

sadly, lee had to work on monday.  while he was at work, my mom, dad, brendan, and i went to chick fil a and IKEA.  this was my parents' first trip to IKEA and my mom fell in love.  they also bought me these little beauties for my birthday:

i have wanted them for a really long time but always talked myself out of buying them whenever we would go.  thanks, mama & daddy!

also, a big thanks to all of my wonderful family and friends for the kind texts, calls, and facebook posts.  my birthday was definitely enhanced because of all of you.

for birthday dinner, i chose j christopher's.  this is a long-standing local italian restaurant here in kingwood that has the best pizza, and i found out, the best pumpkin cheesecake (my birthday dessert).

i could not have asked for a better birthday weekend.  i am so thankful my parents were able to come visit.  i am very grateful to have celebrated my birthday with them and my amazing husband and son.