finally getting around to it

as all of you who know me know....i LOVE my birthday. it is one of my favorite days (or weekends) of the year because i get to hang out with my awesome family/friends, receive calls/texts/emails from my favorite people, eat my favorite foods, open presents, and celebrate my life. this year was no different....it was wonderful.
SO, i have been meaning to post about it for a while (seeing as my birthday is at the beginning of january) but i just got the photos uploaded, so here it is (finally)...

on the evening before my actual birthday, i got to watch the cotton bowl, eat one of my favorite meals and have my favorite cake (thanks cort!) with two of my favorite little aggies (isn't joe the little jokester...flipping off the camera) and some of my favorite grown up aggies had birthday morning breakfast at my favorite dallas restaurant with some of my favorite people (including anna, the photographer)

spent the day laying around, laughing, watching one of our favorite movies, walking around downtown, and playing pre-dinner video games with my sister

and ended the day with pizza at louie's and hanging out at barcadia, playing skee-ball and giant jenga, drinking tasty beverages, and spending time with my dear friends who came out to celebrate with me (pictured here are a few who were captured on my camera)

if the birthday weekend is any indication of how good the rest of the year is going to be, i have a lot of fun times to look forward to!