i had a wonderful 24th birthday (yesterday)!
my dad prepared dinner, michael made a cake, and blair and kayla came over to help us eat it all. (which was a very good thing since there was enough food for twice as many people!)
we had a pizza (appetizer), flounder filets stuffed with crab meat, grilled steak, salad, and corn on the cob.
Dessert was michael’s interesting take on birthday cake (see above), and two kinds of ben and jerrys ice cream. 🙂
just as good as the food were the gifts.
from kayla: two pairs of earrings
from blair: wonderfully fancy butter from my favorite downtown restaurant (where she also treated me to a birthday lunch date earlier in the day) and a conversation block for book clubs for my book-club-one-day-to-be (really it’s only a matter of time)
from my dad: pink flowers, dinner for us all, and a big, big book on the Beatles
i also got a birthday package for my mom via mail with two books, the game bananagrams, and a gift card.
and promise from my brothers that i’d see their gift, “before the end of the year.”
oh, and i got lots and lots of phone calls, emails, and facebook posts! thank you to everyone!
michael is going to get me a pretty camera strap to replace my very utilitarian black and yellow one that came with our camera. But i get to pick it out and i haven’t done so yet. and, he got me flowers as well… her brought me lilies which happened to be pink, like the flowers from my dad, so he put his previous flower shop work experience into action and combined them into one bouquet – michael was feeling creative (cake making and flower arranging!).
the only ‘problem’ with the whole night was that i hardly took any pictures for you to see!! i took that one up there of the cake, and i took this one of the table, below, and all the rest come courtesy of blair. glad someone was on the ball. : )
my birthday week is wrapping up with michael taking me on a weekend trip to san francisco!! it will be the first time for both of us (not counting trips taken before we were old enough to make and retain memories) and we leave tomorrow on virgin america (how fancy!) : )
