40 and Fabulous...so they say

Today was the big day.  The day I turned 40!

And while my mom still thinks of me as this age

and I think of myself as this age

the reality is I am this age!

And just in case anyone that came in the office today didn't know - they do now!

 My tricky co-workers (Vicky, Jenny and Cissy with help from others I am sure) decorated my office after work yesterday.  I was at a clients office most of the day yesterday, and now I KNOW why they were so anxious for me to go straight home when I left there, and not come back by the office.  They got me good!!  They took my office chair away, and gave me a wheel chair, a cane, an Over the Hill Survivor kit, TONS of black balloons and streamers, an Over the Hill pin to wear ALL day, along with lots of other decorations.  They did a great job of making me feel OLD!  I was actually only at the office for about an hour this morning before I headed back to a client to finish their month end and deal with picky auditors all day.  I thought I could get by with leaving my pin in the car - but NO, they called out to the clients office to make sure I had my pin on.  So, I had to go back to the car and get my pin to wear.  All day.  

  

  

I got back in time this afternoon in time for some delicious cake from Girls and Cake 

 My mom sent me a balloon arrangement attached to a candle

 

It is 11:15pm as I type this - so technically, I am still 39 for thirty more minutes since I was born at 11:45 pm.

Thanks to everyone who make me feel so OLD but very special today:)  Love you all!

Summer Youth Series - iLead

Last night, our church hosted the Summer Youth Series. Our theme was "iLead" and Lanny Mathews brought us an EXCELLENT message on personal leadership!!  We had about 110 in attendance, quite a bit less than the 180-200 that we had anticipated.  But 110 is still a good number and it turned out great!  Several storms started rolling in our area late yesterday afternoon and we think that was the reason for the lower number in attendance.  

We decorated with a watermelon theme which I thought turned out really cute.

Watermelon shaped cookies

 Cupcakes decorated like watermelons, complete with chocolate seeds

  

 Avery and her friend that Hannah that she likes to bite

   We sure have gotten good use out of these paper lanterns! 

 We served wraps, pickles, chips, watermelon, cupcakes and cookies 

 Some of our visitors going thru the line

 Love these kids!

A big thank you to Lanny for a wonderful lesson!  And a big thank you to Mel, Amy, Tiffany, Mandy, Alice, Vivian and Leann for helping to decorate and helping with food!  Next week, we visit Mt. Vernon for SYS!

4th of July Fun!!

Last Tuesday night, Courtney, Rod, Avery and I went to watch the fireworks show in Paris (Michael was on a trip to Tennessee).  We found a nice grassy area just to the west of the police station to sit and watch.

Patiently waiting for the show to begin

There were some paratroopers that dropped from the sky which was pretty cool to watch.

My friend Neta from work and her husband Terence came and sat with us

Avery made some friends with the people there were sitting beside us

The show was pretty good!! 

Afterwards, we went home and Courtney and Avery enjoyed some ice cream.

Saturday morning we headed to downtown Paris to watch the parade.

We saw Avery's MeMaw and PePaw pulling the Masonic Lodge float

And my friend Cissy, her grandson Parker, and her husband Barry Diamond pulling the K95.5 float

Then we went home for a lazy afternoon.  Courtney and Avery found some matching outfits :)

I made some red, white and blue strawberries I found on Pinterest

When it got dark, we had our own little firework show.  

The whole neighborhood was shooting off fireworks, so it was pretty cool to watch them all. 

What a little dare devil I have on my hands - holding a roman candle in each hand.  Pretty brave considering up until she was about 8 years old she would not come out of the house if anyone in the near vicinity was shooting fireworks.

Hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July!!!!