My Day

I am awfully lucky.

My parents have been able to come visit us in Michigan every October for the last nine years we have lived here.

We usually get to take a little trip and we work on a little house project while they are here.

If you would have stopped by my house today, you might have seen this:

or this...

You might have wanted to use the bathroom, but it would have been pretty difficult to find anything usable here.

At nine am, it looked like this:

at nine pm?

{yep--the brand new tub--already in}

Oh--and today was my birthday.

It was a wonderful day...starting with yummy homemade cheesecake last night,

then today, great news from a blogging friend,

the sweetest gifts and handmade cards from my hubby and kids,

sweet friends, Visiting Teachers and family who sent notes, cards and emails,

sisters who posted about my birthday on their blogs here and here,

and it ended with my sweet parents, working their tails off to remodel our old bathroom.

Day one was quite a success.

Thanks everyone-so much.