Happy 4th of July and Happy Birthday to me!!

We had some good times last weekend for the 4th and then on the 5th, 6th, & 7th for my birthday! If you know me at all, I love to drag out my birthday celebration for at least a week... this year it was ONLY 3 days. (Actually bday on the 6th) But all celebrations were fun and I loved every minute. Yeah for fun friends & husband! Thanks too for all the bday wishes via mail, email, phone calls, texts, Facebook, etc.

For the 4th, we enjoyed a beautiful (but SUPER-DUPER HOT) day with our friends Ashley, Zoli & their little son Mac at her parents' lake house. I was pumped to get in the pool again!! We (Carson, Charlie & I) enjoyed floating around just talking with friends. I say that because Charlie was kicking a lot before and after I was in the pool but VERY calm when I was floating around. Here's our little family of 3, enjoying our non-alcoholic beverages :) (Sorry for flashing my stomach to the world, I guess Charlie wanted to be in the pic too!!!)

Two pregnant chicks enjoying the shade! I took my brace off so it didn't get all nasty and sweaty! The scarring on my leg is so minimal... check it out. I go back next week for x-rays, wish me luck!!

After a little time in the sun, we headed to our 2nd party at our sweet friends, Megan & John Branagh's house. It was bittersweet because they are moving to California in August, but we really enjoyed time with good food and great friends. After dark, we all drove over and enjoyed some AWESOME fireworks at Colonial Country Club! I have never been that close to fireworks in my life. Very beautiful and of course they threw in a Michael Jackson song with the traditional patriotic ones :) Here we are after the show.
Sunday (the 5th) I enjoyed a lovely time out to eat with the girls! We hit up Mi Cocina and then some of us went to Central Market afterwards for some gelato!! In the words of one of my friends, "that sounds like a great birthday celebration for a pregnant chick!" And of course it was so fun!
Kat, Megan, Kelly Kay, me & Emily
Ashley, Esther, Katie, Debbie, me & Sara Beth

What's humorous is there were 10 girls there and 7 of them were pregnant!! Seriously!! Thanks girls for making my birthday a joyful celebration.

Proof that I have trained Carson well: Monday (my bday) I woke up to Carson singing me happy birthday with a candle stuck in a donut with a kolache to enjoy for my birthday breakfast... Soooo yummy, then I hung out with a friend all day. Since I'm on my crutches all of the time and can't drive... we had some fun girl time together doing what we wanted to do!! We went to two girly stores, ate lunch from a girly deli and even watched a girly movie. I was... needless to say... a happy GIRL!! :) To top off the fun day, we ordered pizza and made our husbands watch The Bachelorette on TV with us. Ashley even gave me a little piece of birthday cake with another candle in it... I got two wishes that day!!

Then on Tuesday, after a long day at clinicals, Carson and I went out to eat to celebrate with just the two of us. I slowly began to realize... Whoa!! This was my last birthday EVER with just Carson... with out having a child in my life. Very exciting but very overwhelming thought! CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!

Other than that, it's been a great week. I finished my very last TEST for school today which was an awesome feeling! Now all I have left is to finish my clinicals, one day of class and then graduation on August 14th. YESSS!!! I still can't believe I've been doing this for 3 whole years, time flies when you're busy.

Carson is still hanging in there looking for a job. He had some really good interviews this past week... so keep sending those prayers up the Lord!