Mama D's Birthday Bash

When my family was all in town a few weeks ago, we decided to surprise my mom and celebrate her birthday early! 

My sisters and I corralled her favorite flowers (hydrangeas) and some Anthroplogie lotions and potions the night before, and then the next morning silently snuck out of the house at 5 freezing 30 AM to get donuts at the legendary Banbury Cross. Because it's totally normal to go get sugar that early ha ;). Mom wakes up wicked early and we really wanted her to wake up to donuts! (And shockingly there were like 6 other people there?!)

SURPRISE!

Mama Darcey really does have it all goin on. For starters she's stunning. She is everyone's best friend.  She's constantly running around doing 7 million things for other people: decorating an entire clubhouse, serving in her calling, arranging house cleaning jobs for other people in Spanish, the list goes on. She really "gets it" and always keeps us grounded. Love that girl.

HAHAHA didn't quite make the donut-over-the-eye pose.

Banbury Cross//

Maple old fashion donut was on point.

And the blueberry donut was just as delish as everyone has talked it up to be.

After eating donuts we wanted to go to the gym, ha. But it would've cost each person $20 for visitor passes!! Crazy right? So... gym shmim. Dad went skiing while us girlies headed out to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. The updated Family Search center is really cool! They hand you each an iPad as soon as you walk in and you can dock it at all these different stations and up pops your personal information. Your heritage (apparently I'm like 4% from New Zealand!), ancestors' stories, the meaning behind your name, etc. Then we ate lunch at the beautiful Garden Room upstairs! 

Garden Room//

Shrimp tacos were BOMB.

Just go split those and a salad with someone and you will be a happy camper.

HBD MOM! We love you!