Let them eat cake.

Or cupcakes…& dozens of them too. 
A birthday isn’t really a birthday without cupcakes if you ask me & that is a new phrase I have decided to live by & because of this mom & dad mailed me Georgetown Cupcakes!! I had planned on sharing until I decided to take a bite out of half of them…& then realized I could no longer share them. Birthdays are fantastic! Why? Sephora gives me a free gift, I got a buy one get one free coupon from Orange Julius, Redbox wished me a happy birthday but was stingy and didnt give me a free movie code this year…even google knew it was my birthday. People kindly send you texts, cards, call you & write you nice things. People honk at you when you’re running because they know its your birthday too. or lets pretend they know…and you can pretty much do anything you want.
 My birthday started out beautifully at 11:58 the night before where I asked Lyle to play 22 by T. Swift and we all danced around…and by we I mean mainly Murphy & I haha. I was so sad to be losing my theme song but I’m sure I will find a new one for this year. Then, Lyle let me open one of my presents since technically it was my birthday & we both know how impatient I get when it comes to presents. The next morning, Lyle woke me up with breakfast in bed. My birthday is probably the only day of the year where if you wake me up I am unbelievably happy…any other day & that was a big mistake. I was all smiley because this unbelievably attractive man was handing me food AND I still got to lay in bed. Bonus. Then he excitedly told me to come out to the living room where he had gotten me roses & balloons. A knock came at the door & I got one of my presents from the best parents ever! Hunter wellies.
Murphy photobombs everything, he obv thought it was his birthday
 Anyway then I got to open another present! 
Obviously i LOVE monograms…
Then we finished frosting the cake. Oh my is this cake amazing. I love pumpkin & found this cake on pinterest and it was phenomenal. Since it wasn’t a box cake I decided to help Lyle who told me “you can’t make your own birthday cake!”….even if i like to? So I just helped. You can find the recipe here & if you love pumpkin you wont be disappointed!
Then Lyle told me he was taking me to get a manicure & pedicure! So after we went to that & Lyle sat next to me the whole time he sadly had to go to work but he had scheduled me a massage so I went to the gym & then went and got my wonderful hour long massage. Massages are hands down my favorite thing ever. If I could get one once a day I definitely would. Lyle is so sweet & offers to give me one almost every day so I was surprised that he had booked one! When I came back I got ready & went to a wives activity & Kaley had made me cupcakes & all the wives sang to me which was really sweet. Afterwards Kaley & I went shopping at the mall! Neither of us got anything but it was a lot of fun! I also got a package from home with some more gifts! Thanks to the Mcgovern fam and my parents. Afterwards I waited for Lyle to get home & kinda fell asleep haha but then he came home & Lyle sang to me and I opened presents and it was an amazing birthday. I even wore this amazing dress because for real when can you wear whatever you want and be over the top?! Oh, Murph & I had a photoshoot as well. He loved it.
Lyle thinks its funny Murphy is rejecting me here haha
Murphy was freaked out by the balloons and proceeded to bark at them…every time he went into the living room…exhibit A:
or hide..
 but eventually he conquered them..
  & its a good thing hes cute…
Since Lyles job sucks on my birthday & he got home so late we are doing a big dinner this weekend and celebrating again! Lyle calls it my “birthday week” & I realized how lucky I was to marry someone who appreciates birthdays as much as me. He even tried to make a monogram on my cake…
hahaha what a cutie. Maybe we will try it again next year. Lyle got me some amazing presents on top of treating me so well all day. Some blinged out nikes, which were my favorite, a jcrew necklace, some leopard heels, a jacket I picked out for Europe & more! Just when I thought I was all done he leaves the room and comes back with a little box. I opened it & he had gotten me a Tiffanys arrow necklace I had showed him once forever ago but I didn’t even ask for it. I was in complete shock.

I was so sad to be away from my family for my first birthday ever! We are so close & I love spending that time with them. I was NOT happy Lyle had to work so late but he still tried to make the best of things. He tried texting me throughout the day to make sure it was going well & treats me like a princess. He make me breakfast in bed and sits with me while I get my nails done all the time. He is always surprising me with flowers or presents so the only difference was everyone else treated me great as well. Its so hard not to brag about him all day every day so people don’t punch me…or throw up. He is an amazing husband & I am so grateful he’s all mine. Thank you for making me feel so special not only on my birthday but every single day as well peanut. & thank you to my amazing friends & family. I love every single one of you & appreciate every little bit. Sometimes its easy to forget or not send a text & I admit I forget at times so it means the world. 
XOXO a very blessed Cait XOXO 

Being married means…

well a lot of things actually, if you ask me all good things….although cynics may say thats its only because we’ve been married 2.5 months but I know it will just get better! Being married means…

GETTING BREAKFAST IN BED.
For no reason at all husbands like to do nice things for you. Whaaa?! I know. Boyfriends do nice things for you too (like surprising you with T.Swift tickets!) but they can’t usually bring you breakfast in bed! One day Lyle even brought me cereal in bed haha which made me laugh a little but since I love breakfast and being in bed it was my favorite. 
GETTING TO DECORATE YOUR OWN PLACE
Now I loved having room mates, don’t get me wrong…even the ones that were a little difficult because you learn so much about yourself and living with others. However, living with Lyle is hands down the best. He has no weird or annoying habits, he doesn’t snore and best of all, he lets me decorate our cute home any way I want. I think most boys don’t really care about stuff like this so its way different from having 5 room mates who all wanna decorate the apt in their own style. Like for instance one of my sweet roomies put up like 12 huge pictures of Jesus in our living room….Now I am all for Jesus throughout the house but this was overkill and everyone laughed when they saw it…so yes, in my own home it is nice to spread Jesus throughout the house….

husbands even let you put monograms throughout the whole house because you love them so much!
The one thing Lyle wanted a say in was this baby- and I can honestly say I had no problem with that! It may be a little big for our space now but it was our investment piece for a bigger home someday.

HAVING YOUR VERY OWN 24/7 TASTE TESTER
I absolutely love to cook and bake and we also love to have people over for dinner and lately I have been trying a lot of new pumpkin recipes so Lyle is my go to food tester. I think he happens to love this part about being married on his end too. Every year i love to test out new ones from pinterest and i found some good ones! The Pumpkin whoopie pie recipe is hands down one of the best recipes i have ever found. Lyle always asks me to make these now and seriously tried to eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner. The frosting is so good that it replaced my old frosting for my homemade cinnamon rolls. You will not be disappointed. 

Pumpkin Dip
( I made this for a Halloween party & it was amazing! SO fluffy)
good thing Lyle likes pumpkin just as much as i do…
YOU GET TO PLAN YOUR OWN FHE
Married FHE is great. Having 2 people agree on a fun activity is a lot easier than having 20 people agree so needless to say it used to be a lot of awkward getting to know you games in college. I am not one to do charades or things in front of people that I don’t know where I embarrass myself so planning FHE now is a lot of fun! One night we booed a neighbor and made treats or one time we went to a jazz game or we watched a halloween movie. Although you will have to say the prayer or give the lesson a lot…unless you plan on having tons of kids and then you can have them do it.

WHEN YOUR SPOUSE GETS COOL TRIPS SO DO YOU
Exhibit A: Pirates Cove. Spouses are more than welcomed, fiances and girlfriends are not…much to the dismay of the unmarried reps. A place that is about $10 grand a night, Pirates Cove was amazing. Exhibit B: Cancun. We are going to Cancun in January-the first week of school actually haha whoops. Or when his work gets box seats to the Jazz games or free tickets to the Imagine Dragon concert…all in all having a husband with a cool job makes me a lucky wife.

& there are a million other awesome things about married life. It is the best.
xoxo CAIT xoxo