perfect sunday

I love days that leave you feeling like life is wonderful and appreciating the fun of living close to family and friends. Sunday was one of those days. After church in the morning, followed by a quick trip to Starbucks, Michael and I picked up a birthday cake and headed to Mom and Dad's house for lunch. Sunday was Mom's actual 60th birthday and Daniel and I had saved our presents for her to open then instead of at her surprise party a couple weeks ago.


The cake was a sweet cream ice cream cake with strawberries from the Marble Slab. Yum!! But since their ice cream cakes are mostly...ice cream...it was rather difficult to cut! Had to have the help of some strong guy...! :)

I sent Daniel into the pantry to find the candles. These are the ones he chose... :} and actually put on mom's piece of cake.

"100?! How about we just leave off one of the zeros!"

Ha! It is a well-known fact in our family that mom, um, likes to take her time making decisions. The card I found for her fit her perfectly! It had two pictures and one said "Reality TV: 'Well, it's the end of the weekend and we've completely finished redoing the house!'" The second picture said, "Reality: 'Well, it's the end of the weekend and we've narrowed it down to only 37 paint chips!" Yup! That's my mother!

Modeling the sarong I gave her for her upcoming trip to the beach in August.

Michael, being artistic with his camera....

After leaving Mom's house, Michael and I headed over to my place so he could do some fishing off my dock and I could do some planning for camp.

Poor worm.

Fishing off my dock. It was beautiful outside...although a bit on the toasty side!

The view from my dock. If you travel down the river in this direction, you would eventually come close to the airport, where you can sit and watch the airplanes take off over your head! I haven't ever done it, but I hear that it's fun. :)

After being thoroughly annoyed that the fish seemed to be eating the worms...and not the hook...we decided to take a break from the fishing/camp planning to go see the new movie Get Smart with Steve Carrol and Anne Hathaway. Hilarious. After the movie we came back to fish until 11ish. By that time it was dark and quiet on the river - the best time to sit on the dock. It had rained while we were gone, which had helped to cool off the air. Everything was peaceful. Michael never did actually catch a fish this time, but I did get some good camp planning accomplished!

Days like that don't happen all the time and when they do, it's easy to forget to slow down and enjoy them completely. This is where my little blog comes in handy...now it's down on "paper" and I won't forget my perfect Sunday. :)