If you know me, you know that I love, love, LOVE my birthday! It's my favorite day of the year - not because of the presents and cake and such, but because people go out of their way to make me feel loved and celebrated. Every day should be like that. Every day we should go out of our way to make people feel loved. I think that's important!
So here is a brief recap of my weekend of feeling the most loved I've ever felt in my life - Thank you for that, Jesus!
On Thursday night, Kayla, Britt, and I went out to dinner for a pre-birthday celebration (who doesn't love that?!). We went to Okami Japanese steakhouse on South College, and man oh man it was good! Seriously, it was too much food for one person but worth every penny. Plus, their early bird specials are great! If you're ever in the Wilmington area between 4 and 6, you should stop by Okami! My roomies are so sweet, and I love them both to death. I'm lucky to be going through this stage in my life with them!
Earlier that day, my sister gave me my birthday present because she couldn't wait much longer. I have been talking about the Disney movie Frozen since I saw it twice in theatres a few months ago! It's my favorite Disney movie by far, and I basically have told everyone that I want to own it. Well, my sis came through for me! I am now a proud owner of Frozen! If you haven't seen it, come over and we'll watch it!
That night I went to a dance competition on campus called Hawk It Out. One of the girls from my small group was participating, and she killed it. She won the whole competition! It was really cool, and I got to spend a great evening with some of my favorite girls in the world. God really blesses me through them!
On my birthday the next day, my sweet mama made me my favorite breakfast - breakfast casserole. My Maw-Maw use to make it for me every time I visited her because she knew how much I loved it. Now my mom makes it for me, and it tastes the exact same (insert bittersweet face).
Then, Al came over for a little bit and gave me my presents (yes, plural!). I loved every single one of them because I knew how much thought he put into them. He's the sweetest!
The prettiest flowers! |
Bubble necklaces! I got a white one, too! And they're upside down, obviously! |
Love, love, love this watch! |
So thoughtful! It now hangs in my room at the apartment! |
See, the sweetest! He also made me a huge card at his work, and it made me cry. He loves me so good! And there's more...
After he gave me these presents, he told me we were going on a picnic in the park. Neither one of us had ever been on a picnic before, so it was perfect! We went to Walmart and got picnic things, went to Subway and got sandwiches, then went to the park and had a sweet little picnic on the no-longer soccer fields. We don't really get to spend time together just us - normally we're always surrounded by other people, so this was a nice change. It was a beautiful day, and we had a lot of fun. Here's some pictures from that day:
Typical "us" picture :) |
I ended the night with the love of my life, and there's no other way I would've wanted to end it. It was such a great birthday! Thank you to everyone who made it so special for me - all the people who texted me and sent me sweet messages on Facebook, all my family members who sent me cards and moola, and everyone who just made me feel loved. I'm so blessed to have people in my life who care so much for me. God is so good to me!
I hope you guys enjoyed this belated post! I seriously suck at blogging. I'm trying, people. Have a great night! Love you guys!
XOXO,
Morgan