Birthday Re-cap

Yes, I am alive. Life have been crazy busy, but crazy good these past few weeks. I am finally getting around to updating my blog and feel like I have a million things to update! I will start back where I left off with my birthday.

My celebrations continued on Wednesday night when Steve and I celebrated by re-enacting one of his past birthdays. We started out with dinner at Training Table, one of my favorites, and ventured to Nickel-Cade after. It was way fun and a night full of laughter and the realization that I would be an awful gambler. I threw most of my nickels away thinking that just one more nickel would push the rest off the shelf and give me all the tickets. Didn't quite happen that way, but we still had fun.
Thursday night Brooke moved home, and her being home was a present in and of itself. It was so fun to have her home. We had a sleep over and I got to spend my birthday morning at home. After getting ready I met up with all my sisters and Maga for lunch at Citrus Grill. I love my sisters and was so happy to get to see them all on my birthday. Brooke, Mom, and I headed over to the Spa Club for pedicures and were able to relax a bit.

I headed to Bountiful to hook up with my wonderful friends for my surprise birthday evening. We headed out to Thanksgiving Point for the Tulip Festival. It was beautiful and we had so much fun taking pictures and walking around. The rest of the night was filled with activities from dinner at Texas Roadhouse, an appearance at a graduation party, car problem adventures, and a little improv. I think Shannon did an exellent job of summarizing the night on her blog, if you want a little bit more detail. The night was so fun and I laughed so hard all night. I am so lucky to have such good friends!

Saturday morning I was able to have breakfast with Kimmy at my all time favorite breakfast establishment: Market Street. It was fun to catch up and be able to celebrate both of our birthdays.

Sunday was my big birthday party with my family. My wonderful mom made a delicious meal of all my favorite foods, with help from my sisters as well. I ate lots and enjoyed every minute of being with my family. Shannon and Steve were able to join us and it was great to have all of my favorite people in one place (minus Jake, who was missed). The evening was filled with food, our birthday tradition of saying our favorite thing about the birthday girl, gifts, and even a little concert by Steve who wrote a song for me. The night was perfect and I couldn't ask for a better way to celebrate my birthday.

The concluding activity to my birthday was dinner with my mom at the Melting Pot. This is one of my favorite restaurants and not one I frequent. It was so fun to have the evening with my mom and enjoy the wonderful food.

Every year my birthday seems to get better and better. I have wonderful people in my life that are so good to put up with my incessant birthday celebrations. Thank you to everyone who made my birthday so wonderful!

P.S. I don't have all of the pictures from every event that this post may be edited and updated at a later date.