New Year Baby

Today's Beautiful Thing is my Aunt Ann--she's a New Year Baby! We always get together for dinner on New Year's Eve to celebrate. Happy Birthday Aunt Ann & Happy New Year everyone!

Katie

Today's Beautiful Thing is my youngest sister, Katie. It's her 30th birthday today! I wish for her the most Beautiful decade of her life. Happy Birthday Sis!

Surprise!

Today's Beautiful Thing is a sweet surprise left in my work mailbox by an anonymous coworker. How nice to find a little treat this morning!

A Clean(er) & Tidy(ier) House

Today's Beautiful Thing is having company over. The last couple of months have been very hectic and I haven't spent as much time cleaning or tidying my house as I should. Thank heavens my in-laws came over this afternoon. It forced us to pick up, vacuum, dust, put away the Christmas clutter, and tidy the kitchen and bathrooms a bit. Hey, whatever works, right?

Gift Cards

Today's Beautiful Thing is gift cards. I'll admit, I forget I have them for months, but when I finally fish them out and use them, it's fun. Tonight we went to the Corner Bakery and had grilled panini sandwiches and salad (me) and chili (him) and split one of their insanely delicious caramel iced, banana baby bundt cakes. Thanks to whoever gave it to us for Christmas last year (told you we always forget to use gift cards!) we only had to put in a few bucks to pay for our meal.

TCB

Today's Beautiful Thing is taking care of business. (Is that a blast from the past, or what? I'm almost too young to remember that expression!) We had my car serviced today. Since the mileage is so low, it hasn't been checked in a couple of years, so we had them do a bunch of maintenance, just to be safe.

(Pictured: Our nephew and Godson, Jeff, on Christmas, holding the shirt (and wearing the fleece hat) we gave him.)

Family Pt II

Today's Beautiful Thing is another day of family. We spent today with my in-laws and had a wonderful time. I was in charge of appetizers (and they turned out great), Aunt Lucy was visiting (and she's so funny!), and Abner, Elise and I played Hide & seek, monster and looking for treasures. It was a very nice day. :) Merry-Happy to you all.

(Pictured: The cutest little girl in earth, hands down. Our niece, Elise.)