For the last year, Gulley has told me that she wanted to do a guest post on my birthday. You have to understand that this is a big deal because she always swears she would never have her own blog because all she would ever write is “Today I did laundry. I drove carpool. I cooked chicken for dinner and served rice as a side dish. Then, I went to bed.”
Personally, I don’t think she gives herself enough credit.
Anyway, the following is by Gulley. You will notice that there are 37 things listed because today may or may not be my 37th birthday.
37 Reasons to love Big Mama
by Gulley
1. We laugh hysterically every day.
2. If we skip a day, we make up for it by laughing doubly the next day.
3. She randomly hates things. For example, “I hate pizza.” “I hate chinese food.”
4. She will hate things on your behalf. For example, “I hate [insert store name here] for being rude to you.”
5. She has given me the benefit of Fashion Friday for 19 years now.
6. She will find clothes for you, even if they would not suit her.
7. We have an unspoken hierarchy of the type of therapy needed for certain problems: cookie dough by the spoonful, queso, or a margarita.
8. The girl can cook.
9. When she has made something you like, she will call and say, “Come over. I made ______.”
10. We have shown up to drop the kids off at school wearing the same thing more than once.
11. She’s not easily offended and all the sensitive people want to be her friend.
12. Many times one of us has picked up the phone to call the other while the other was dialing.
13. She makes everything more fun.
14. She rarely ever complains about anything.
15. She is very tender and will cry with you when you cry.
16. She gives sound advice.
17. She loves God and his word.
18. On Thanksgiving we say the same thing every year: “Of all the things I have to be thankful for, you are in my top 5!”
19. She will go Christmas shopping with you all over town even when she is done with her shopping.
20. On any given day our conversation pendulum will swing from questions like, “Is my faith thrilling and delightful?” to, “What color velour is best? What are the top fashion finds right now?”
21. She DID buy our entire Bible study group blue suede fringe bracelets to wear during Believing God. She did NOT spend more time deliberating on the fringe than on the actual Bible study.
22. She always knows what to say, or what not to say. Even if it means telling me my husband is right.
23. She will run something over for you to wear in a moment’s notice.
24. She will pour over photos and magazines with you to find the perfect hairstyle.
25. She will listen and listen and listen and listen……
26. She is witty.
27. She loves my boys and bonds with them by playing games on the Wii, Uno, and going to t-ball games.
28. We share a passion for Aggie sports, especially football.
29. We both complete NCAA basketball brackets.
30. This person you see on the blog, she is all that and more, oh yes ma’am she is!
31. We can talk baseball better than two guys ever could.
32. I believe we will all have hair like hers when we get to heaven. She has no self-righteousness about this.
33. We include each other in our big moments.
34. When I start trash talking at sporting events, she is polite at first but she eventually joins in!
35. The first time we saw each other after we were both married we stayed up talking about marriage until 5 am. Then we wished aloud that stores opened at 5 am so we could go shopping.
36. When we went to New York together, I literally spent my last dollar on a must have track suit. She paid for my cab fare to the airport and my headphones on the flight home.
37. Because big news isn’t big until I have shared it with her.
Happy Birthday Big Mama! I love you more than my luggage!
Happy birthday! How blessed you are to have Gulley and vice versa!
What a sweet post!
Happy Birthday!!!
Mine is in two days…don’t you love having birthdays…in Texas…in August!?!
Bet you can’t tell everyone that Elvis died on your first birthday! Oh, but I can…and what’s worse…I DO!
There is your random 5AM trivia…yeah…it’s 5AM and I’m up reading Big Mama…on her birthday!
HAVE A GREAT B’DAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!! I HOPE IT IS THE BEST YET!
Birthday wishes and God’s blessings to you today!
This is absolutely one of the BEST birthday gifts I’ve ever seen
. Because you’re a “words” girl, I know you’ll tuck it away in your heart forEVAH!!
HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS, MELANIE
!!! You’re one of my favorite “joie de vivre” girlieQs and the way you live life to “the full” reminds me to do much the same…especially when you delight in the little things.
p.s. I have the best idea in the history of ideas for Gulley’s next milestone birthday (for paybacks) (lemme know if you’re interested
).
What a great list. And I wish you were my BFF because I am getting my haircut today and could use some help.(#24)
She should have added #38 as one to grow on – “She write a great blog. One that I must read first every morning.”
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Big Mama!! I hope you a ginormous pinata to smack at today!!! Have a great birthday!!
Happy Birthday Melanie!
I think my favorite thing Gulley wrote was number 13. What a cool thing to have people say about you.
I think a lot of us would agree that the bloggy world is more fun because you are here.
Happy Day Friend!
Happy, Happy Birthday!! I can tell your friend is an awesome person too for writing such a wonderful post.
Have the best yest!
What a sweet post. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Happy Birthday, Miss Melanie!
I love, love, love hearing about your life with P and your dear Caroline!
You have inspired me to try my hand at blogging even though most of my posts are still in my head.
I, too, have a best friend like Gulley and she’s at the top of my list. Before BFF was coined, we called ourselves TFs (True Friend). We shared lots of friends, but none was given the coveted title of TF. It was quite annoying to them ~
Thanks to Gulley for writing the Birthday Blog so we could all get an even better picture of the Delightful Big Mama!
Is “Gulley” her real name?
Enjoy the day!
Gulley did a great job!!! Happy Birthday, Big Mama! I often refer to you as my “friend” because I don’t want people to know that I love and trust a stranger on the internet that I have never met. You make me smile EVERYDAY.
I hope you have a delightful day!
Melanie,
You are definitely loved by many!
Happy Birthday! I wish you a birthday filled with little surprises that make you marvel at God’s goodness and great love!
ENJOY!
Happy Birthday!
How lucky it is you two have each other. A beautiful friendship like this is a rare find.
I believe this post clearly shows that Gulley could totally rock a blog.
Great job, Gulley!
Indeed, Happy Birthday!! Sounds to me like you’ve already received one of your best gifts in Gulley.
)
What a wonderful post from your friend! Happy Happy Birthday, you are a blessing to us all!!!!!!
I love #36. When your friend wants you to have something as much as you want it and is willing to help make a way. I love that. Happy Burffday, Big Mama!
I love this list and I love best friends! I have my own Gulley and I wouldn’t trade her for the world!
Happy Birthday Melanie!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday Big Mama!
Happy Birthday!
Enjoy your day and your coming year — 37 is good.
(I’m 6 days after you. but a year older).
I randomly round up to 40 on occasion when people ask how old I am, so that when I do hit 40, it won’t seem like such a big deal.
and then when I remember I’m only 37…
wooo hooo!!
Happy Birthday Melanie. God bless you!
What a nice post. How nice for both of you to have such a great friend.
Happy Birthday Melanie!
Gulley is a great friend! I love her list. Have the best day EVVAAHH!
Best of Birthdays on your big day. Gulley said it all already! Thanks for sharing.
Happy Birthday! Hope you have an awesome day!
Happy Birthday! That is such a sweet post. You are lucky to have such a great friend.
Gulley, I love you. And regarding #30, I just have to say: AMEN.
Gulley – You are awesome! That was such a wonderful list, and it blessed my day to see a great friendship.
Happy Birthday Big Mama Melanie…
That is so special. Thanks for doing sharing with us, Gulley.
Happy Birthday Melanie. May you day and year ahead be full of blessings.
Happy Birthday! What a special friend you have in Gulley.
And yesterday may or may not have been my birthday. =)
Happy Birthday Big Mama!
Gulley did you proud! You are BOTH blessed!
Happy 37th Birthday Melanie!
Happy birthday! What a sweet post. Thank you for sharing your friendship with us. Best friends are treasures for sure!
Happy Birthday Big Mama. We are so glad that God made wonderful you!
Happy Birthday!
And great job Gulley, what a good bff!!
Happy Birthday!
I love that you will randomly hate things, or even hate things for Gulley. How fun:-)
What a blessing to have such a treasured friendship with such history.
Happy Birthday!!
What a great friendship you have.
Loved this post.
Happy, happy birthday!
What a great friend! Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, ok I am just 1 year old than you.
Can I tell you how blessed you are to have a friend close enough to say all of that about you? You are blessed girl!!
Love love love your blog!
Happy Birthday and congratulations on #32. Any chance there will every be any hair talk? I’m from the north, but aspire to southern hair.
What a great list, Gunny!! Happy Birthday, Big Mama!! I hope you have a great day, and be sure to do something nice for yourself today. (Like eat lots of queso with Gunny.)
You are right, Gunny should have her own blog.
ROFL – I loved #36!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Happy Birthday BigMama! Welcome to 37!Whichfeelsrematkably like 36. Or even 35! How wonderful to have a great friend like Gulley write such great things about you on your bday! My Gulley just moved to Japan and I will miss her dearly!
Have a wonderful day! Love the list. Thanks Gulley – have you ever thought about having your own blog?
Happy Birthday!
I loved the last line, I can hear Olypia Dukakis saying that line in the movie now.
Happy Happy Birthday!!
What a wonderful testament to friendship.
May you be blessed with a extra measure of joy today, and may the humidity and heat leave you alone!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY — I hope you have a fabulous day! Thank you to Gulley for the guest post.
While I don’t know you personally I could find myself agreeing with much of what she shared about you, just because of what has been exchanged between us. Keep up the good work!
Blessings!
Happy Birthday! Today is my birthday too.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! What a precious friendship you guys have!
This made me bawl and beg God to bring me a friend like that again.
Happy Birthday.
Y’all sound like great friends! Happiest of birthdays!! Great job Gulley.
I think my two favorite items from Gulley’s list were:
4. She will hate things on your behalf. For example, “I hate [insert store name here] for being rude to you.”
17. She loves God and his word.
That’s the kind of friend we all need!
Happy Birthday, BigMama!
Happy Birthday Big Mama!! What a sweet post and clearly an awesome friendship.
What a great post! Happy Birthday! Is Gigante the unicorn pinata going to show up at a birthday party for you? You could fill it up with money! Just a thought! Have a great day. Take care, Julie
Happy Birthday!
Loved the post….what are your big plans for the day?
So…any ideas for my 30th?
Oh, Happy, Happy Birthday Big Mama. I love checking in every day and hearing about what is going on in your world. You should get the gold medal for blogging.
I hope your day is special!
Happy Birthday! Your blog is part of my morning routine, and I cherish you! Thank you for inspiring me.
happy birthday! hope your day is full of the good things: ice cream and cake.
And now I have to go call my best friend…
Happy Birthday, Big Mama! What a blessing Gulley is to you and you are to her! May you have a blessed day.
Great job Gulley!
Hope your birthday is full of joy Melanie!!!
Happy Birthday!
Just to be different:
Feliz Cumpleanos!!!!
I just might be 37 in a few weeks too!
Happy Possibly 37th Birthday! And hurray for Gulley! Have a wonderful day, complete with lots of cake and an HEB that is back to normal!
Happy birthday!!! May this one be the best yet!
Happy birthday. The very best people were born this very day. (today is my birthday too). Oh yeah.
Everybody needs a Gulley, Melanie. No one is complete without a friend like her! She’s the kind that sticks closer than a brother.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Melanie!! I am almost 6 months older than you (lacking three days). I’d send you more Rocky Mountain chocolate for your special day, if I could–guess I’ll just bring some with me next week!
Love,
Holly
Happy birthday, Melanie. God has poured out blessings on you, amen? And Gulley is definitely in the Top 5.
(And to Gulley? I understand why you don’t want a blog. Some people just don’t want to share their humor in writing. But the rest of us? We are the worse for it. Because we can’t sit over queso with you and laugh our heads off, as we’d be bound to do. Thanks for being a good friend.)
Happy Birthday!
Great job, Gulley. You both are very blessed to have such a wonderful friend!
Happy Birthday Melanie. You are so lucky to have Gulley!!! That was so sweet. I wish my Gulley lived in the same town as me. Hope you have a wonderful day.
This song automatically came to mind:
“Keep smiling, keep shining
Knowing you can always count on me, for sure
That’s what friends are for
In good times
In bad times
I’ll be on your side forever more
That’s what friends are for!”
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Big Mama!!
What a wonderful friend you are Gulley.
Love reading your blog and the podcasts make me smile.
What a sweet friend to be/have. Happy Happy Birthday, Big Mama.
I love this. I love hearing what your best friend thinks about you. It’s like finding out a celebrity that you like, is really super nice in real life too! It sounds like your more than super nice, it sounds like you are one AWESOME friend.
And it makes me wish I could know you in real life.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Big Mama!
What a sweet friend! You and Gulley sound an awful lot like me and my best friend, although we haven’t known each other nearly as long.
P.S. You and my Mama have the same birthday!
Oh my word….how sweet is this??? What a great friend you are (and have!)
Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday to you!!
Happy Birthday! Can I just tell you how blessed you are with such a true and wonderful friend?!?! That was a great tribute to you on your 37th. You are blessed and I hope you have a great day!
Happy (for real) 37th birthday, Big Mama -
from the one person who does know for sure! I believe that your arrival was around 2:00AM – and that middle of the night thing became your calling card for many years to follow.
What a wonderful post from Gulley – glad that you two found one anothe. She is truly a blessing to all of us!
I love you more than words can say, and I am so proud of you! The greatest blessing that any Mother can have is to see her children respond to the Lord’s call and follow Him! That really is what our lives are all about!
Happy, happy birthday, Melanie Anne – From Your Mama
Big Mama you are right, Gulley definitely doesn’t give herself enough credit. I’ve been in the same room with you two before (long before Big Mama was born) and I distinctly remember telling you two that ya’ll were so hilarious. I think ya’ll just laughed at my comment! Happy Birthday and great job to Gulley.
Happy Birthday Big Mama!
Happy Birthday Leo!
Oh, Happy Birthday, Big Mama! I’m an August in Texas baby, too! Mine was last week…and I’ve tried lavonda’s trick of rounding up, but I’m not sure it’s working. I’m 39 now and 40 seems like a very big deal!
Today is my birthday too! Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday sissy!! How in the world are you 37 & I’m 33??? I can remember how cool I thought it was when we were 7 & 11….Hope you have a fun and happy day! Love ya!
Happy birthday, Big Mama! You and Gulley are so lucky to have one another!
can i say “sweet gulley…” in that tone of voice that would indicate that i actually, you know, KNOW her?
can i?
i can?
“sweet gulley.”
and melanie? have yourself a rockin’ birthday? so blessed by you.
i meant just have yourself a rockin’ birthday. with a period.
the question mark just makes everything wrong.
i should “sign off” before i go making spelling errors too.
love you!
Happy Birthday Melanie!
What a sweet post! How blessed are the two of you to have a friendship like that!! Gully should make a blog for sure!
Awwww, what great friends you all are. Sweet.
Happy Birthday to one of my favorite people that I don’t really know
Happy Birthday Big Mama!
I love reading your blog, and your friendship with Gulley is inspiring on both ends.
p.s. August birthdays are the best!
Oh my goodness! I don’t even know either of you…but I wanna be BFF’s with you too!
What a sweet friendship! God is so good to share amazing people with us throughout our lives.
Have a groovy birthday, Big Mama!
I love your blog!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy Birthday fellow Leo – you are exactly a week younger than me!!!
Best friends are such a blessing aren’t they?
Happy birthday! I hope this coming year is full of more, fun memories with Gulley!
Your wonderful friendship made me cry. You are both so very blessed to have each other.
Happy Birthday and have a great year.
Happy Day!
You 2 are blessed to have each other.
Happy Birthday Big Mama! (I just realized that ‘Big Mama’ looks much more petite in words than ‘Big Momma.’)
I think every person needs a friend like you. Gulley must be pretty great too appreciating all those wonderful things about you. Gulley, start that blog.
(…I think I’ve gotten two very nice, prompt email responses from you and thought “wow she’s really nice!”)
Happy Birthday, Melanie Anne! (Read your mom’s comment and got the full name)
Will you be having a pool party? A ginormous pinata? Because you SO SHOULD. But the pinata should be made to look like, I don’t know, Bevo? Some celebutard? (whomever could use a good beatin’) and be filled with chocolate and gift cards for Sephora.
The only thing that coulda made Gulley’s post better was if she told us whether or not she actually did the laundry and carpool and then let us know what she served for dinner. And what she chose for a side dish.
Love the Gulley.
Have a great day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!I am so glad you have each other.I don’t know what I would do without my best friend.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Ya’ll are so blessed to have a friendship like you do!
Happy Birthday Melanie – and what a great post from Gulley!
Happy Birthday Big Mama!
Happy, Happy Birthday Melanie!!!!!
I hope you have a great birthday!!
Great list Gulley!! What a sweet friendship.
)
Love,
Patty
Happy Birthday, Melanie! Welcome to 37! Come in and stay awhile, I promise it’s not too bad.
You and Gulley are truly BLESSED to have each other. And all of us in the blogosphere are BLESSED to be a “part” of your lives.
Thanks for sharing yourself and family with all of us.
You add MUCH needed laughter to the daily life of this Anal Retentive Mom of 3!
Have a wonderful day and a blessed 37th year.
And pinky swear promise that you’ll NEVER stop blogging!
Happy Birthday, Big Mama!
What a lucky lady you are to have a friend like Gulley. : )
Happy Birthday Melanie!!! You deserve to have a wonderful day. Thanks for all of the laughs…every day.
Thanks for the great post Gulley.
Okay, so Gulley won’t blog…maybe she could Twitter???
Happy Birthday Melanie!
Happy Birthday, Big Mama. That post made me a little emotional…and then I read your mama’s comment and went ahead and teared up.
Have a good one.
Happy Birthday, Big Mama! Thanks for sharing your life with us – it’s always fun to read your blog and I love all the Gulley stories. You both are so blessed to have one another!
What a treasure to have a friend like this for so many years!! Happy b-day BigMama!
Happy Birthday!
I’ll echo the comments that you two are so blessed to have each other — friendships like yours are rare and precious.
And Happy Birthday! I just turned 37 last week, so I’m here to tell you it’s not too bad.
Enjoy your day!
Oh I love this! It almost made me cry. If I were a sensitive person, I would’ve cried for sure. I love #35 the best I think.
I’m so glad you were born because you have given me funny stuff to look forward to for the last 2 years. That’s how long I’ve been reading you. Two years. Blows my mind.
So happy birthday to you! You don’t look a day over 27.
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday Melanie….we love you a bunch! I know if Gulley could add a #38 it would be your generosity with your “gas credit card” when you guys were spending all that money filling up the CRX in college!
HAPPY birthday! And many many more. And my wish is that you share them all with Gulley. Friends are one of life’s BIGGEST blessings. I know that to be true because I am blessed too with special friendships. Love to you and GULLEY as you celebrate!
Now, that’s one great list! We all need BFF’s like Gulley, and you, evidently. Happy Birthday!
(Also, if this list is a sampling of what she’d bring to the table, I’d totally stalk Gulley’s blog. Good stuff!)
Happy Birthday Melanie! We share birthday months….you and Gulley are blessed to have eachother and I am blessed to read your stuff and laugh. Seriously, laughter rings many many times at my house when I read your stuff. Hope your day is wonderful! See you next week already!
You two are so blessed to have each other.
Happy Happy Birthday!
Blessings,
steph.
Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful day and a blessed year ahead.
Number 19? Now that is a good friend! Happy birthday, Melanie! We all love you even more now, knowing all these fun things about you from Gulley. Y’all are so blessed to have each other. Have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you…Isn’t it great to have best friends who will go the extra mile to list 37 things about you and tell everybody how old you are at the same time?!
Happy Birthday! Here’s an interesting tidbit – our birthdays are only four days apart. OK. Four days and twenty-one years. Mine’s Monday. I think it makes me a little sick I’m actually old enough to be your mother. LOL
#26 is dead on – you’re about the wittiest person out here. I can only imagine the craziness when you and BooMama get together.
I love the relationship between you and Gulley. What great friends you are. Happy, happy birthday.
Here’s hoping your birthday is filled with everything and everyone you love!
A very Happy Birthday to you!
And thanks to Gully for a beautifully written post.
Enjoy your day, Big Mama!
Happy Birthday Big Mama! I know your family and friends will make it a great one for you.
Happy Birthday Big Mama, I’m planning a similar homage to my hubs tomorrow. Lots of good August Birthdays
About the sports, really?
I can’t get myself to watch any on tv, except for the Olympics that is.
I love Gulley’s descriptions of you and I love Mimi & Bops comment about the CRX.
I want to confirm Gulley’s post. I want everyone to know that Melanie is not just that person Gulley describes with her best friend. She is all of the above things to everyone because that is who she is. Melanie is the friend that you can pick up and call after 10 years, and feel like you just spoke yesterday. You can describe every heartache and triumph that occurred during the absence, and Melanie will relive it with you. And she can see the value of a person even when they can’t.
I wish for everyone to have a Melanie in their lives, even if it is long distance. Mel, you are the greatest – strength, beauty, wisdom, grace, and love. (Maybe with a little OCD thrown in for entertainment.)
Happy Birthday! I love you.
Happy Birthday Big Mama! That was the sweetest post I have ever read!
what a wonderful friend! happy birthday.
happy birthday!
It happens to be my birthday too–my kids think I am soooooo old. I don’t know how many times they emphasized that this morning.
Oh well…they had to start back to school today so I’m having a quiet day! LOL
Happy Birthday! I loved the list. It’s inspiring to see such wonderful friends who care so much about each other!
Happy Birthday, Mel. You are the greatest. God has truly blessed you and Gulley to have each other. Friendships are sacred when they are like yours. I’m blessed to share that kind of closness with your mom and a few others. The older one gets, the more important our friends become. I’m sure you would have the same wonderful comments for Gulley if you were listing things about her. Great job Gulley and God bless you both. Mama Diane
This has to be one of the sweetest birthday presents ever.
Happy Birthday, Big Mama!
How nice of your friend to write this about you. It is the best to have a friendship like the one you have together!
Blessings…
Hope you have a wonderful birthday!!!
What a great friendship you two share!
Happy Birthday Big Mama!!!
Happy birthday Ms M. Yesterday was my “28th” for the last 17 years. (It works, I promise) Ms Gulley’s description of you is no less than what you give of yourself in your blog. There were no shocks. You two have a wonderful gift of each other. Tam
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I wish you all the best!
Well, if that wasn’t the sweetest!! Also, LOVE the Steel Magnolias luggage reference.
What a sweet post!
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday, Melanie! You are so awesome! The more I read of your stuff, the more I love you!
What a precious, precious list! Bless you, Gulley, for writing it!
Happy Birthday, Melanie! What a great post! I hope you are blessed beyond measure and this is your BEST year yet!
How precious for you and Gulley to share such a bond! I so enjoyed reading her thoughts on you. It’s cool learning more about this Big Mama whose blog I love reading.
It’s especially cool that you are rarely offended! That is a great quality. We all need to learn how to love, listen and let things roll and not pick up offenses. Oh or give them!
Be blessed!
Rena
Birthday Blessings!
May this next year of life be filled with many blessings and graces. I am so glad that I have “met” you through this blog –
thanks to Gulley for giving us a clearer picture of our beloved BigMama!
Happy Birthday Big Mama!!
I have a friendship with someone just like this one! Her name is Tasha and she reads your blog too!
We are truly blessed, don’t you think?
Happy Birthday, Big Mama!! Having a good friend like Gulley, who can quote “Steel Magnolias” in the last line of her post is quite a gift.
Hope you have a great day!
Happy B’day, Big Mama!!! Hope you have a fabulous day!!!
Happy Birthday!
Don’t you just love the 70′s and the whole Anne thing..ha Anyway Have a great b-day and your friend sounds like a dream. I have a couple here myself and I don’t know what I would do without them!
Happy 37th!
Best Wishes,
Stephnie Anne in CA
What a great tribute! Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, sweet, fun, witty Melanie! So you and Gulley (being the huge Aggie football fans that you are) will know whom I’m talking about and laugh when I tell you that my son is in the same kindergarten class as Jason White’s son and my husband is beyond elated? Hubs is a huge OU fan, so this was a big excitement for him. I guess he’s going to be volunteering for all the field trips now?! Hope your day is filled with laughter and joy!
This was a blessing! Happy birthday!
Happy, happy birthday to you! Hope it is a wonderful one!
Happy Birthday Big Mama, do something for yourself today.
Reading Gulley’s list was like looking at beautiful snapshots of your life. Snapshots, which we bloggy readers, had suspected to be true and find confirmed. Have the happiest of birthdays!
Susan
Now I want to be best friends with Big Mama too! I swear I would fit right in with you guys – love sports, shopping, and food! I have a few friends like this but unfortunately don’t live near them right now. But my husband might think that’s a good thing. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Big Mama!! Gulley has exposed you for what you are – a caring person and a great friend!!!
Dear Guest Poster Gulley:
You are a dear friend!
Dear Mel:
Happy Birthday!
Boy, this has been a big month for you/your family….
First HAPPY BIRTHDAY
2nd tell Gulley if she can write a list like that she has got to have great blog moments..
Happy Birthday Big Mama! You are a very special lady. My very best friend is one who always points me to Jesus. I think you are just such a friend, and it doesn’t get any better than that!
That was absolutely delightful. I enjoyed it so much.
Happy Birthday! I just turned 37 too
Beautiful! Have a fabulous birthday!
Happy Birthday Melanie!
I hope it was fabulous and you ate some delicious fajitas and queso. And, thanks for keeping me entertained!
Happy Birthday Melanie! I enjoy reading about y’alls friendship over the years.
Happy Birthday!!!! Hope it was wonderful!
Happy BDay today or maybe not today! I also turn the big three seven this year. Not sure how I will handle it. I feel like I have another good three years before I’m considered really old, especially by my kids.
Gulley did good. She really should start her own blog.
Happy 37th, Melanie. Hope it’s been a great and memorable one.
Love and hugs,
Diane
That is the sweetest post ever. Happy birthday, Melanie! You make 37 look GOOD.
Happy Birthday!!!! What a great friendship you too share!
Happy Birthday! What a wonderful sentiment. I may have to steal the idea and write an “ode” to my best friend on her birthday. Hope your day has been great!
Happy Birthday friend!!!
We all need a Gully and we all need a Big Mama in our life!
Big blessings~
Fran
Gulley
Praying you got addicted in that short moment of blogging!
You got it going my friend!
Melanie
Happy Birthday Blessings to you!
Love ya!
What a great post…and great friend. Happy Birthday!!
Friendship… it’s a beautiful thing. Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy Birthday, even if it is a little late! What a great friend you have!
What a neat friendship the two of you have! I hope you have had a wonderful birthday.
Sounds like the two of you have a friendship that is like a sisterhood. Happy Birthday!
Hope your birthday was happy!
Happy Belated Birthday Big Mama! You are truly blessed to have a BFF like Gulley and we are blessed in you sharing your life with us. Hope you have a wonderful day after your birthday!
Happy late Birthday! I have loved your blog for some time now.
Happy Birthday Melanie!
How Blessed You Are!
Sounds like you’re having a week of celebration…
Enjoy!
Wished you happy birthday on your actual birthday on Twitter (just so you know), but am belated over here. Hope you at your weight in guacamole
Happy Birthday!
In honor of the one about how you “hate” things, can I just say I hate how skinny you are….? LOL
Have some queso and guacamole homegirl.
This is so sweet! What a great friend. You make me laugh out loud! I’m jealous of the hair one…I think #32? Happy Birthday!
Happy belated birthday! I am so glad you are part of our extended family! I thank God for the day he brought you into our lives and I count you and your precious family as one of our wonderful blessings. I am so glad you two have each other! Gulley gained a friend and I gained another daughter (and grandaughter)! I love you!
What an amazing post. How I envy the friendship you have with your dear friend Gulley. I’m sure you will treasure that post always and forever—it was a heck of a post girl. Maybe for Gulley’s birthday you can design her a blog!
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Gulley’s last line was her best!!!
Happy Late Birthday Melanie!
Happy Birthday Melanie! It is great to have a wonderful friend like Gulley…especially one who quotes “Steel Magnolias” (my all-time favorite movie)!
You have a ton of celebrations going on lately that I have missed. Hope your birthday was wonderful!
And this lists just proves even more what a blessing your bff is…