My Birthday :)

Well, I am now a 23 year old (since last Tuesday).  I feel so old right now, although I know I shouldn't.  My birthday was awesome, except for one thing....

There was a SPIDER in one of my presents.  I'm not even kidding.  It crawled into the tissue paper wrapping one of my presents and scared the heck out of me when I was opening it.  STORY OF MY LIFE.  It's like they follow me around and try to scare me in the most creative ways they can come up with.

Other than that though, it was a great day.  I got a new haircut the day before, so I was feeling cute.  I like my new cut because I can style my bangs many different ways and it looks cute in all of them.  Here's how I did my hair on my birthday.

Blake had school & work all day until 5, so I went out with my mom during the day.  We went to the new shopping center in Farmington.  First we went in Ulta, and I got lots of pretty stuff.  I am especially excited about the GLITTER eyeshadow.  Because a girl can never have too much glitter.  We spent a ridiculous amount of time in that store, and my mom kept saying 'it's a good thing it's your birthday.'  Haha.  Next we stopped by Ross, where my mom bought me some new exercise shirts.  Then finally, we went to Harmons and got fancy cheese & bread to eat for lunch, and some gelato!  It was pretty much the perfect meal.  After that I went home and had some time alone to kill, so I just watched some Simpsons and House.  You can't clean the house on your birthday! ;)

When Blake got home I got to open my presents from him.  Which were actually from me, since I bought all of them (except one).  Oh well.  And that is when the spider incident happened.  My presents from him were a perfect black lace dress, awesome 'cognac' boots, bright blue pants, and a small seahorse-shaped dish that we bought as a souvenir in California.  He also gave me an orange wrapped in a chocolate orange wrapper.  That's the one he got himself, haha.

We went over to my parent's house for dinner.  We had pizza from Gabor Brothers, salad, and rootbeer floats.  It was delicious.  My birthday cake was the same I've had for many years because it's the best; homemade oreo cheesecake.  It is amazing.  When it came to present time, Peeps gave me a Beatles t-shirt and Red Vines.  My parents gave me their favorite cookbook, a duplicate of my favorite purse for when it wears out, a sweater, and my favorite gift, some Shel Silverstein books!  I grew up with those books, and am so thrilled to have my own copies now.  We also watched an episode of My Fair Wedding on their netflix (which my dad wasn't so thrilled about) and later we watched I-Robot.  It was a great day!