yummy owls

Today is day 3 of my birthday week and I am loving it! Every day this week, my amazing husband has surprised me with a gift. Today he sent me the coolest cookie bouquet from Cookies by Design. Boy oh boy, these are the most delicious cookies I have ever tasted! 6 yummy owls, all for me! Aren't they cute?!?!


Some of you may remember the sweet owl earrings Ken bought me for Valentine's Day and you're probably wondering about the significance of the owls by now. It's really just a way for Ken to tease me. (But that's ok with me, because that means he loves me!)

You see, when Ken moved in with me last summer and we started condensing our belongings, I asked him if we could keep a particular lamp he previously had at his place. It was an old wooden looking ceramic owl lamp with a yucky shade but I saw some design potential. He was excited that I liked the lamp because he acquired it from his parents -- it was his dad's lamp and apparently his mom hated it! Ken and I brought it over to my house and I painted the owl black. I thought it would look awesome black with a stark white shade and had planned to use it to contrast with the aqua accent wall in our living room. That little owl looked so good by the time I was done with it. I proudly packed it up in my Xterra and took him to Target to fit him for a shade. Unfortunately, there wasn't a suitable shade at Target, so I brought him back home. I left him in the car because I knew I'd have to take him to another store. The next day, Ken and I opened the door and the owl jumped out of the car and shattered into a million pieces. Ken jokingly referred to me as the great owl murderer, but we both know that the owl took its own life!

When I got the owl cookies today, Ken told me to be careful not to "kill" any of them. I was so careful all day...but near the end of the day, the cookies had a small accident and crashed to the floor in their basket. Many owls were injured. My favorite owl (the brown ruffly one) was decapitated. I called Ken with the terrible news. He laughed -- I think he somehow expected this!

The consensus? I suck at owls. But that's ok because Ken loves me for all I am, and that includes my clumsiness. I couldn't ask for a better husband. He has rocked my world every day since our first date!