HURRAY!!! ANOTHER 365 DAYS JUST ROLLED BY AGAIN.

In the beginning...my baby look, lol

On the 16th of January, on Wednesday to be precised, I celebrated another birthday; I have so many reasons to celebrate and thank God for this beautiful gift of life, and beautiful family/friends to share it with, beautiful opportunities, and wisdom to grasp them.

My breathtaking cake

Mine, was I wowed!

I had not really planned anything for the day, just thought, I'd cook something and just invite a few people over to the house, but the day turned out much better than I had anticipated. First of all, hubby, who has been in school all week, for an intensive Management program that he is running at the Lagos Business School, surprised me with the largest birthday cake ever. Usually, I sleep late as I love to surf the net or read at night, and as 12am I was not asleep, just pinging away on my phone and responding to the birthday messages that had begun to trickle in. Hubby kept excusing himself to go downstairs in the guise of going to get one thing or the other.

Gifts galore

Then finally, he came and asked me to come downstairs with him after he finished questioning me about my goals/aspirations for the year. I stood up from the bed a bit reluctantly 'cos I was kind of tired and ready to sleep, but I was curious *winking. My hubby is a master at planning surprises, though I beat him to it last year when I planned a surprise 40th birthday that shook him to the depths-story for another day, sha. Okay, I followed him and as we began to negotiate the staircase, I saw a lit candle on the stairs,  and knew that something was about to happen, hehehehhe; then he picked up the candle which was inside a beautiful red glass cup and handed it to me to hold and covered my eyes all the way downstairs, whispering to me to 'trust me and just follow my directions' and yours truly shut her eyes real tight. When we were downstairs, he placed a box in my hands and asked me to open, without turning around-two massive boxes to be precised. When I opened them, I saw some really exotic perfume sets, one was a Perry Ellis collection, the other, was Lola by Marc Jacobs. I tried to maintain and form control, then he asked me to turn around slowly, and I willingly obeyed. When I had turned 360 degrees round, I saw the largest, and most exotic cake I have ever seen-and I'm sticking to that story o, lol, on the dining table.

The many faces of moi

My love

With my dear friend at Marco Polo

We had a blast

I was stunned and did not recover for some minutes, then I recovered, hehehehehehe-the rest, you can feel the gaps. Everyone in the house, except the children who were sleeping already, I woke up to come and see the cake, but they could only admire o, no cutting until in the morning. Let me try and shorten the gist as I did not plan for a long post.

I had fun!!!

A few friends and I went for lunch at Marco Polo, a Chinese restaurant in the Victoria Island, then I came home and in the evening, I continued part two of the celebration with my family and a few of our office staff that came around. Wait o, the baker, sent a second 16 inches cake to me, FOC because hubby was upset that he had not made the cake as big as he had wanted it, considering what he charged for it. * Whispering* thank God he did not tell me o before paying, else, I would have collected the money and bought a smaller/cheaper cake for myself *covers face. I hope hubby does not read this, lol.

My children were enthralled.

At Marco Polo with friends.

We had a great time.

All in all, I had fun on Wednesday and just basked in the warmth, gifts, and prayers on my day. I pray that God empowers all my dreams to fruition this year and that I will not be frustrated in seeking to give expression to my gifts/talents. I choose to believe more in me, this year and learn to affirm myself more. By the way, please pardon the unprofessional pictures- we were all photographers that day, clicking away on our phones, with fun as the keyword; please feel free to stop at mine for a piece of the cake o, before you accuse me of selfishness, lol. God bless you all.