Happy Birthday to Me!

My birthday was this last Tuesday! Yay! This means I got to feel spoiled and get presents! Woohoo!

In the morning, before my man went to work, I opened the gift my in-laws had sent me.

Aren't they cute? SOCK MONKEY STAMPS! Woohoo! :) I'm gonna have some fun with them! :D

Then, hubby went to work and I goofed around for a bit. For lunch, I picked him up and we went to International Cuisine. He had the Monterey Chicken, and I had the Greek Combo Platter. So yum! Except for the Dolmas... I still don't like them. (I tried, but... yuck.)

When hubby got home from work, I opened more gifts!

First, the gift from my baby sister! :D

She made me a CD of 16 cool and relaxing songs. I love it! I'd heard four or five of them before, and some I'd never heard of. It's now on my iPod in its own playlist so I can listen to it anywhere, anytime. :D

My man got me three packages of FIMO--red, green, and purple! Yay! :D I've already been having fun with it, and the clay I'd purchased earlier in blue and translucent.

He also got me an oven thermometer so I could check the oven temperature, but he let me open it about a week early so I could bake clay. (Good thing, too--turns out the oven bakes about 25 degrees too hot!)

His last gift to me was an apple peeler/corer/slicer--something he's been wanting to get me for a few years, but always had trouble finding around the time of my birthday! Now I can make totally awesome pies with less effort!

My parents totally surprised me with the now out-of-print and wonderful Lion House Recipes cookbook. Yes, there's another book of recipes in print--Lion House Classics--but they CHANGED THE RECIPES. At least some of them--like apple pie. (The old one is awesome, the new one is gross.) As I discovered when I looked inside the cover, my parents, me, and my brother gave this to my grandparents in 1986 (before my baby sister was born). So, it was kinda like getting it back!

They also sent me what is probably THE COOLEST COOKIE CUTTER EVER. Yes, that is a BYU cookie cutter. It rocks. Now I need to make cookies!!!!!

My parents also sent me birthday money, and so did my maternal grandparents! Yay! I used it last night to buy THIS:

Yes, it's purple. Yes, it's a camera. Yes, it's awesome. And yes, it's the reason for the huge number of photos in this post. 14 megapixels, 5x optical zoom, purple goodness! And I had enough to get a 2 GB SD card, too! Now I have more than a cell phone camera! AWESOME.

So, yeah. I had an awesome birthday, was spoiled rotten by my husband, got several phone calls, and my sister and her roommate sang to me out of tune.