Birthday Girl

When it comes to Birthdays my husband takes the cake! His time and creativity spent with making not only my birthDAY, but WEEK great - heeds a little bragging! Birthdays are big in my family. It's probably because my sister and I celebrate just 8 days apart. As kids I remember day long celebrations with lots of cake, balloons, and always pumpkin painting! The perks of a fall birthday. :) As we got older Katie and I always found a fun way to mark the year together - a trip to the spa, a concert, a weekend vacation, or a joint shopping trip where we "picked" out our gifts for each other. No matter the age, or the distance apart we always found a memorable way to spend the big day with one another!

Jon saw one of these events first hand in the first few months we started dating. Katie and I celebrated that year with a concert in Ames where she was living at the time. Ever since that year, Jon has put together several special things to make my day great. Last year he created a birthday cake out of my favorite red velvet brownies from my favorite bake shoppe, he also gave me a white hoody with the instructions to embroider it with "Mrs. Foss"....the engagement came 5 days later!


My week began this year with a fun filled birthday dinner hosted by my mom at Givanni's in Iowa City. For those of you have never had the opportunity to eat some of the most amazing Italian food Iowa has to offer....GO! Katie and I stuffed our faces with breads, bruschettas, pastas, and a cheese cake my mom picked up at The Bread Garden to top it off! Saturday morning I awoke to find a surprise on the Iowa City landscape....snow!
As I mentioned in earlier posts, Jon's family (even extended!) gets together at each of their birthdays. Jon's parents hosted a huge salmon dinner at my request and Lisa topped it off with my favorite cake - homemade red velvet! We brought our wedding photos with us to the party, you can see here Grandma Joan and Molly perusing through them. We of course has the usual amusement from Drew and Brady was very happy camper getting more smiley each time we see him.



Even Lola got in on the Birthday fun at home one night! She isn't fond of flowers in hair.... ;)

I had a few other "birthday" lunches with friends and even a movie on Friday - but the best part was yet to come! I woke up on Saturday morning feeling like it was Christmas morning! I ran downstairs, only to find this cute little package awaiting for me! The new purse (Louis!!!) I had been dying for, tickets to Wicked, breakfast at Gateway Market and dinner at Centro! All of my favorites wrapped into one day!