O. MYYYYYYYYY. WOOORRRD.

An actual, honest-to-goodness, real-live author of a New York Times Best Seller book actually commented on MY blog.  On my blog, people!!!!!!!!!!  If I could have had the gift of foresight and known that an actual, honest-to-goodness, real-live author would have seen my post about her book, I would have used a lot more fancier, smarter words!  Especially given the fact that she has an amazing talent with words! And if I could have the gift of time-travel...I would travel back to my post, pre-read by Beth Hoffman, and do that thing with the fancy words I was just talking about!!!  Seriously though - how cool is that!?!  Go out and read Saving CeeCee Honeycutt!! :)

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

I found this book charming and wonderful in a really sweet and funny way.  This book can make ya a little sad but not for long before you laugh, and then maybe get mad, and then laugh some more.  The southern talk of the women in this book is just a hoot and Cecilia Honeycutt is a cute little girl surrounded by women with wisdom who become her family.  It is from the vantage point of a 12 year old girl but it is not really a 12 year old's reading material.  It was wonderfully written!  Two thumbs way up :)

The Best Day EVER!!

...because I was accompanied by these two handsome fellas...

...to California Pizza Kitchen for lunch!

Does this look like the most delicious drink to be had?:

Well it is.  It's their Raspberry Frozen Lemonade.  SOOOOOOO delish!   Paul was even jonesin' for some.  

I love LOVE their Pear Gorgonzola pizza...I can't bring myself to order anything else because I love it so much.  And lucky me!! They burnt our pizzas just a tiny bit (honestly I really liked the crisp - it was perfect!).  Normally they said they would just have thrown them out and started over but they saw we had a kid with us and didn't want to make us wait (SCORE!!) so they put new ones in so we each had double our pizza for the price of one!  Happy Birthday to me??? I think so!!!!

What else made me happy?  To see my kiddo suckin' away on this piece of arugula.  With any luck, he'll be a greenie like us ;) 

And that's not all...my sweet husband took the day off to be with me (surprise?? yes!!!) and let me get my run in baby-free, had scrumptious healthy breakfast waiting for me when I was done, took me out on a shopping spree and let me shop while he manned the babe.  I spent most of my time at H&M, then we stopped for lunch, browsed a couple more stores, went to Jordan Landing for a couple things, finally went home for a couple hours downtime and then we stopped into Culver's because every time I drive by I really want to see what their frozen custard is like and believe you me...IT'S FANTASTIC!!!