Doesn't get better than this!

If I must get a year older to be shown such love, I am glad to be aging. Well, at least I felt that way last week! 
Birthday bliss was overflowing! I didn't have to wait until the actual day either. On Wednesday, Mavis, one of my Bible Study friends made me a birthday cake. The main ingredients were unusual but thrilling. Are you ready for this? 

Beets - ohhhhhh!

zucchini - shablam!

carrots - wowwww!

Be still my beating heart. If those ingredients sound gross, you must experience these victuals in a cake. With homemade buttercream frosting. Oh my. It was dense, decadent and delish. 

No flavors of the veggies could be detected although I wouldn't have complained. Here is the recipe. I only hope I can duplicate her efforts. 

Then on Thursday the doorbell rang and guess what arrived? 

tough guy

a bouquet of fresh colorful tulips from my son/Soldier. What a sugar boy. I am the only one that gets to call him sugar boy so don't even try. Remember he knows how to hurt people. 

cherub-like creature

And few hours later, the doorbell rang again. A most sublime, cherub-like vision was carrying another treasure!

Elizabeth floated into my home holding two pints of a soft, edible fruit formed into clusters of soft dark-purple drupelets also known as blackberries. 

if this person knocks on your door, let her in!

I nearly cried. She had read my post mentioning blackberries and when she learned I didn't have any yet, she brought them to me. 


So that got me thinking...since it worked with Elizabeth, here are a list of other things I'd really like but don't have yet. I'm not saying you HAVE to get these for me but if you did, I would gladly post about it! ;)

I want this, please get it for me

A high quality food dehydrator 

You can also get me this

A Kindle 

And of course, then I'd need this

Purple, please

How can you not be blessed when this person stops by? With cake no less! 

The doorbell rang thrice. Could this really be happening? It was Danielle, possibly the sweetest girl from church, dropping off a homemade pound cake. She informed me that she had already made me a cake the night before but the dog ate it! So you know what she did? She made another one! After the meal of shrimp prepared by the Hubs, we lavished on perfectly sweetened pound cake topped with juicy blackberries.

Is this an unattractive picture? Yes! Do I care? Nope. 

I didn't expect these blessings and yet treasures surrounded me. What great fortune!

Praise the Lord from whom all blessings flow!