Birthday Celebrations! :-)

 I celebrated my 25th birthday this past Thursday,

December 22nd.  We started celebrating early and

went out to eat on Wednesday night after church! :-)

 Abi entertained us all with her stories! ;-)

 I got home right at midnight, so we celebrated

by opening some of my gifts then :-)

Dave was complaining about not getting a kiss,

so Mar & I made sure he got a double dose! ;-)

 Adam & Katie got me a beautiful scarf!

Dave thought it looked like it should be used like this ;-)

 I started out my birthday with breakfast 

in bed compliments of Mary :-)

 Then Mar, Dave, and I headed out to the

mall for Starbucks and then to do some

Christmas shopping! ;-)

 Mar & I had to get a picture since we "matched" :-)

 We then met up with a group of family & friends

for lunch at Cottage Inn! :-)

 Dave, Tiz, Abi, and Rebekah

 Katie's birthday is also the same day as mine!

Except she's just a year younger.. hard to believe I'm

older than her!  Mom brought us a cookie cake.. yummy! :-)

 Blowing out the candles

 So glad that Hannah & Lydia came too! :-)

Just love my "little" cousins!

 Tizzy & Abz

 Gotta love Dave's face here.. he keeps us laughing! :-)

 The boys had a basketball game that night, so all

the family that was in town went.  That was a lot

of people, as you can imagine! :-)

 Tab had fun with my birthday headband :-)

Can you read what it says??

I had an awesome, fun-filled day! :-)

Thank you so much to all who made it

so special by calling me, and sending me texts,

cards, and emails!  It was so fun to spend it

with lots of caring family & friends!

Thank you for making my day so special! :-)