My 22nd birthday was last Monday, a week before Valentines as always. I'm starting to feel old already. We do 'birthday week' instead of just one day. So we started it off on Sunday, with dinner at my parent's house after church. My mom makes the best meal... we call it 'Olive Garden' because she makes a delicious alfredo sauce, gets breadsticks just like theirs (they're from Costco!) and buys their salad dressing. It's seriously amazing! There were also some games played and fun had. Monday, my actual birthday was like this: I drove to campus to pick up Blake after his classes, and while I was there getting him Kailene just happened to walk by, and she even remembered it was my birthday! That was pretty awesome. I also got to finally (briefly) meet my Portland bride which was great too. Then we went to Subway and then to the Eccles Dinosaur Park! I hadn't been there for so long and I've been wanting to go forever. It was so much fun! Big surprise, we had the whole park completely to ourselves. For some reason no one else wanted to go on a Monday early afternoon when it's cold and rainy. :) When we were done I dropped him off at his bus and he did his run. When he got home we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory with my family. It was so yummy! Then we went to my parent's house for oreo cheesecake that Blake made (so good!) and presents! Peeps gave me Edward Scissorhands and my favorite treat, Red Vines. My parents gave me this really cute baroque-y mirror thing, an adorable dress, cute skirt, a fun frame... um I think that's all. Blake got me giftcards to Olive Garden and the Old Spaghetti Factory (he bought that one while we were there, when he 'had to go to the bathroom' and stayed a really long time haha), Starcraft Battle Chest, and my second favorite treat Sour Patch Kids. I was pretty excited. :) On Thursday dad took me to the new Harry Potter movie which I hadn't seen yet and then to Cafe Rio. On Friday my MIL took me to Costa Vida! Then I spent the rest of the weekend doing things for Katie's wedding (in case you didn't know, I'm planning Blake's sister's wedding). So meeting with the reception center people, then Katie got her endowments and we got to go (it was great), then Saturday was multiple showers and then working on the decorations.
Here's some pictures from the dinosaur park!
Yesterday for Valentine's Day I woke up with a sore throat and cough. Oh yay. So our valentine's wasn't quite so awesome. But Blake did hide little chocolate kisses around the house for me to find when I woke up which was cute and he brought me home a giftcard to the Brick Oven! Then he made me a spaghetti dinner and we went to bed at like 7 or 8 because I was so miserable and I had a horrible night and didn't sleep very well. And I woke up today feeling even worse and sore everywhere... so we'll just have to do something fun later to make up for it. Oh well.
