On my way home from school, my cousin, Erin, called me to tell me to make sure to go to my house before I went to see Andy because she had a present for me and wanted to make sure I got it. When I got to my house, these beautiful flowers were waiting outside for me.
I have to say, flowers are one of my favorite things.
Here's a close up of one of the beautiful spider mums. I think they look gorgeous in the picture, but they probably look even more beautiful now that they've had a few days to settle down and open up. So beautiful! And such a pretty purple color!
I also played around a little with the black and white setting on my camera. I love these roses--you can't tell because I'm zoomed in, but they're really tiny and perfect. They're a pale, pale pink.
Here's the card! Thanks, cousin!
These are my presents from my brother and sister. I forgot to go back and take pictures of what my presents were--sorry!--but they got me a bunch of new toys for the puppy I plan to get this summer. So exciting! Puppy now has two training bumpers (she's going to be a duck hunting dog), a frisbee, a Kong, a Kong ball, a set of tennis balls, and a bone that will help clean her teeth.
I also took home one of my sets of baskets that were in my apartment (part of my moving out process) and filled it with the new puppy toys. My parent's dog, Emerson, has his own little basket and he gets sooo excited to pull his toys out of it. It's like every time they come out, it's a brand new experience for him. When Puppy comes home with me, she's going to find soo many fun toys, she will love me instantly and permanently. It sort of takes me back to my sorority days--like building a basket for my little. I can't wait for Puppy! (I am also taking name suggestions.)
My sister's birthday is in early April and, because she's in physical therapy school and married and generally busy, she won't be home again for a pretty long while, so we decided to do her birthday this past weekend, too, so that everyone could see her get her presents. My mom and I coordinated our gift wrapping--totally cute, right? Me and my brother gave her the one in the brown polka dotted bag!
My mom gave her a new digital camera (the same one I got for Christmas---she has always been a copycat!), and my brother and I gave her this.... a new digital frame! It's really neat--it's energy saver compatible, totally touch screen, is WiFi compatible, and you can even email pictures directly to the frame. Like, for example, if I have pictures of my sister, I can just attach them in an email and they'll pop right up in her frame! Apparently it's very user friendly and she was telling me how badly she wanted something to display some of the wedding pictures that she hadn't framed (and, let's face it, you can't have wall-to-wall wedding photos), so this was my solution. Tada!
Mmmmmm, and my sister made her magnificent hot fudge lava oreo ice cream cake. It was soooo huge. My sister bought a really, really thick springform pan to make it in. I also got Cold Stone ice cream for the layers as well. It looks a bit messy, but it's totally delicious.
At our weekly Saturday family dinner at a local Mexican restaurant, Kyle (my sister's husband) brought his whole family. Initially, I kind of thought it was a bummer, because they are crazy religious and tend to also be quite judgmental. Fortunately, though, they were on their best behavior--and they even brought me birthday flowers! I was pretty surprised and totally touched--it's so nice to be thought of.
Aren't they beautiful and spring-y? I really love the yellow, green and white. Such a nice combination! And you can't tell, but its a huuuge bouquet. I had a really hard time fitting them all in a vase.
I have to say, I love the mums. I like the cool texture and the unusual colors. Very fun.
My parents also gave me (as I mentioned before) more money for my bar prep class--which is now paid in full. I can't say enough how grateful I am to have parents who have been so unconditionally supportive, even though I've been an incredibly expensive child. Of course, I'd rather have cool clothes and new fun things than a summer worth of work and not getting to go do fun things with everybody else, but, such is the life of a grown up.
Also, apparently my car insurance will go down and that is a very, very good birthday present.
I also got myself a pretty sweet birthday present---the movie Burlesque! Yesssss. It is a dream of my life to wear eye makeup like Cher and not look like a streetwalker. Maybe one day I will accomplish this. But, of course, I'd probably have to learn how to actually apply makeup, which I can't. But still, I will enjoy watching the movie--over and over and over. It's my fave.
It was a great weekend, spent entirely with family and friends. It was so nice that my mom played hooky on Friday to spend extra time with me, great to have my sister and her puppy home visiting, so nice to see my little brother and always, always wonderful to spend as much time as possible with Andy. I am such a lucky girl.
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