i was excited to meet up with olivia for lunch because it was her birthday week! i was glad we were able to get together and do a little celebrating with just us gals.

of course, i met up with her during the week…it’s the only way, lately, for us to get together. i was waiting for her to get back to me on a time and we didn’t settle on one until late morning, which caused me to run a bit behind. i needed to pack up olive’s things, get her changed and ready, get myself ready, drop her off at my parent’s house and get myself on the road {with all the interruptions i have along the way with miss olive’s shenanigans!}.

i arrived much later than what i wanted to {olivia had a meeting planned at 1:30pm, so we only had a little over an hour to gab} but nevertheless, we were able to get in some good ol’ catching up! we talked about her birthday plans, we talked about our little ones {well, olivia’s darling niece fiona is a month older than olive}, and we talked about how life was treating us.

[the card was all colorful balloons, a perfect match!]

we really want to get together soon with our boys and just hang out. of course, aaron and rich have a lot in common and totally have a bromance going on {they loooove geeking out over cars and such} and us gals just want to chitchat…it’s what we do best! haha! we just love our girl time!

after eating our delicious salads, i had olivia open up her gift! i loved her little bag and card i gave her. i’m so bad when it comes to parting with the cards and packaging that i buy. i always have such a hard time letting go. i love all the cards, bags, tissue paper, wrapping paper, etc. that i buy that i actually dislike giving it away! i know, crazy right? but i’m sure there are folks out there that can relate! it’s so pretty and most of the time one of a kind, that my heart gets a little sad giving it away, especially my cards. i’m obsessed with buying cards. i love christimas cards, thank you cards, baby cards, birthday cards, wedding cards, any kind of cards and my most favorite kind are letterpress cards.

[i rarely eat salads but nordstrom has some pretty darn good ones]

[opening up her gift]

[i love packaging & finding coordinating cards]

anyhoo, there’s my tangent for the day! i love cards & pretty packaging! well, after lunch, i dropped off miss olivia and headed back home to see my baby girl! i always miss her so!

xoxo