March: The Birthday Month

Josh's BIG 25
March is the coolest month to be born I guess. Josh and my sister Charlie share the same birthday on March 10th, and my birthday is March 14th.

March 9-12, 2012 
Since I was student teaching at the time, I didn't get the same spring break as the rest of the college and Josh but luckily I was able to get the weekend off at work so we could take a quick little trip to Viva Las Vegas!  We left on Friday afternoon and stayed with Grandma McDonald in Milford for the first night. The next morning (Josh's big 25 birthday) we continued our journey to Vegas. We stopped in St. George on the way to see Jim and Carrie and arrived at Andy and Kelly's house Saturday afternoon. The first thing we did was put our swimming suits on and tried soaking up what was left of the sun. That evening we went out to dinner with the LeGrow clan and then we went to a casino where I officially gambled for the FIRST time! (Last year I turned 21 after spring break which was spent in Las Vegas, so this was my first opportunity to gamble legally). I can't say I'm addicted but I definitely enjoyed it. The game I spent all of my twenty bucks on was some Sex and the City game. It was quite an entertaining game and I can see how people get addicted to gambling if you have the money to do so. On Sunday we laid out at the pool for a few hours and then went into the city to shop and walk around. We drove back home Monday morning. We are so lucky to have family that lives in warmer weather so we can sneak away for a weekend!

Birthday Boy

From the left: Me, Josh, Mitch, Kelly, Andy, Stephanie, Jake

 

 

 

 

Hapy Birthday To Me!
March 14, 2012

This year was one of my top and memorable birthday's for sure. I love surprises and Josh managed to surprise me twice on my birthday. My birthday started off pretty normal just waking up and going to school except one minor problem, my phone wasn't working and hadn't been working since the night before. I didn't really think anything of it because I've had problems with my phone for the past few months, but I was worried that if people were trying to get a hold of me on my birthday they couldn't. (Only I would worry about such a thing)! 

At lunch, my mom came to my school and surprised me with balloons and took my phone saying that she was going to take it to Josh so he could take it to the store to get fixed. When I got home Josh was here and kept asking me if I was going to take a nap. I thought I might as well because we weren't going to dinner until later. I had a lovely nap and was woken up by a cell phone ringing but not a familiar ring tone. I sat up and saw a gift bag next to me so I opened it up and there was my phone but not my phone...a new iPhone!! I was so ecstatic and had no idea he was getting it for me. There was also a cute poem in the bag that he wrote about us that rhymed and everything! 

For dinner we went to my favorite restaurant Callway's. For those of you that aren't locals, it's the best Italian restaurant ever!! I knew that Josh had made a cake for me that afternoon when I was napping and I was so worried because during dinner he kept saying that just him and I would go back home and eat the cake. I wanted my family to be there with us so bad because that is a tradition of ours. I kept saying things like, "Are you sure you don't want to invite anyone over?" "How are we going to eat all of that cake?" On our way home he made a stop at Wal-Mart to purchase some ice cream for the cake but he bought three tubs of it and I wasn't quite sure why so much. We arrived back at our place and when I stepped into our house friends and family popped up and surprised me. I was so shocked and amazed that Josh coordinated all of this behind my back. He did such a good job at keeping it all a secret. I'm so glad I was able to share my cake with our family and friends :) and be with them on my birthday. I owe the planning of such a perfect birthday to my hubby!


Side note: Josh had purchased the iPhone the night before my birthday and so my original phone wasn't working because it got shut off. When my mom brought it to him at lunch he took it directly to Best Buy so that they could load all of my contacts, photos, etc. on it. Sneaky? I think so!

Friends

Had to get a picture with the cheese ball. She LOVES the camera

All the girls (minus Char)

The cake Joshy made. It was delicious!