Birthday sweets.

It was so sweet of my newspaper staff to celebrate my birthday with cupcakes in class...

and the day before, it was sweet of Brett and the kids to welcome me home from my scrapbooking weekend with a birthday cake...

with my name(s) in orange, no less! It was sweet of them to put just five candles on it, too.

But the sweetest part of my birthday?
Getting to spend it with my sweetie!

Birthdays like this even make turning 43 pretty sweet!