dearest friends and family and internet lovers,
thank you for making my birthday so special! i feel like i got some of the very best ever wishes this year, so it’s definitely going to be a good one!
husband took me on a lovely little food-o italiano dinner date last night to celebrate my special day, which was just exactly what i had in mind. but then i forgot to bring my box of leftovers home and i’m kiiinda wishing i had them today. phooey! but thank you, husbandino, for my date and gifties. it was perfect.
now to celebrate my 25 years of breathing, eating, loving, sleeping a tiny bit & laughing a lot, i am going to do 25 fun facts. they don’t have to be about me, really, but most of the facts i know are about me. and also, they don’t really have to be fun, either:
- before i really knew steven at all, i mentioned to a friend that i should marry him one day because i liked the sound of my name with his last name. little did i know… ta-daaaaa! [be careful what you wish for, kids! wink wink!]
- aside from minnie & sophie, my family of animals over the course of my life have included 9 cats, 3 dogs, 2 donkeys, 6 horses, 1 bunny, 16 ducks, 1 gerbil, 2 guinea pigs, 2 geckos. and some fish. am i forgetting anyone??
- favorite movie of all time: when harry met sally
- favorite disney movie: beauty & the beast
- favorite song: marvin gaye’s let’s get it on, which has been steven’s ringtone on my phone since i was 16 and it was our last dance song at our wedding. bam.
- other favorites: the smell of leather, lowercase letters, cold pizza for breakfast, anything gilver.
- my father’s name is stephen. my brother’s name is stephen. my husband’s name is steven. but don’t let this confuse you!
- by the end of my life, i will have spend 1 million fafillion jillion hours just being excited about christmas trees. that is very much a fact.
- i have never broken a bone. and never had surgery. therefore, i’m not so used to hospitals and they creep me a little.
- also, clowns are scary.
- my family’s florida beach home is truly my happy place. [and my trip earlier this year with april was one of my favorite weeks ever!]
- i took guitar lessons when i was 15 and really liked it, but then i quit because i wanted to get my nails done all purty-like. priorities, you know?
- i really wish that tutus were acceptable for daily wear.
- the first time steven ever said “i love you” to me, it was an accident. it accidentally came out and then he tried to take it back. but then it was true, so he put it back out there. haha. hahaha. oh, love!
- my favorite book growing up was a wrinkle in time. i read it over and over again. i’m tempted to go back and read it one more time just to catch up with my 4th grade self.
- steven thinks i’m crazy for putting butter on my toast. i think he’s crazy for not.
- we got married on 6-7-08.
- thennnn we honeymooned in ocho rios, jamaica. it was beautiful and there were so many peacocks there! that was the best.
- my freshman roommate in college once wrote in her blog to her friends about me, saying that i was going to live in a nudist colony one day. i wasn’t supposed to see that but i diiiid. and i was so not a nudist! just a little less clothing-ly concerned than she was, which was easy to do. [we were randomly assigned to live together.] anyway, i thought that was awesome.
- technically my brain doesn’t do very much before 11am. but i try.
- i never saw how the o.c. ended! after all that time spent with seth & summer & ryan & marissa!
- my whole family [minus sister who is apparently too young] took a gun course together this summer and. we. loved it. southern family bonding time, woop woop!
- i have eaten a chocolate truffle for breakfast now two days in a row. i have no regrets about this. yet.
- i really wish i could know what minnie’s dreaming about when she has her little puppy dreams that make her little feetsies twitch. i think mostly she’s chasing things. it is the cutest.
- also, i think sophie has dreams that she’s nursing with her kitten littermates. that is the cutest, too.
yaaaay, 25!
the end.
the end.
So glad you're birthday was perfect with the exception of forgotten leftovers- hate when that happens! Also, I think you should know we have some things in common: wrinkle in time, beauty and the beast, no broken bones and tutus.
p.s. it's really cute you liked steven's last name with yours years ago. makes me giddy.
I'm a little late but Happy Birthday girl!I can definitely relate to over half of these fun facts!
i'm glad you had a great birthday!!
i think i will always always be excited for christmas tress too!
happy belated birthday!!
I'm glad you wrote this..>I felt like I got to know pieces of you better~ that's crazy the triple Stephen~~~ How do you keep them straight?
I had such a hard time with A Wrinkle in Time! I Always thought that was a hard book to understand!
I laughed outloud when you said why you quit your guitar lessons:) At least you were honest!
Yayy! Happy Birthday! You look so pretty! And, there are so many things I can say to your 25 things about you, but it would be the at least a 10 page essay, so I will say this…I hope I have as many animals throughout my life as you have, I never saw the end of the O.C. either, I love the smell of Xmas trees which is way i'm so sad I don't get one this year, I love cold pizza, tutus, and I ALWAYS wonder what my little fluffs are dreaming about when they run in their sleep, etc.
Hope you have a great night!
i never saw how the oc ended either!! weird. and that's so funny about the college roommate. thank goodness i knew mine before! people are craycray.
glad you had an awesome birthday!
just found your blog – great pics, sounds like your birthday was perfect, nothing beats italian!
I can't believe that bit about the Stephens. Our old neighbor's name was John and he had two son in laws named John and Jon. I thought that was so rare! But your family is like that too!
I'm a little late, but, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
omgawdddd this is crazy that you're 25 here and now you're 28!!!! how cool are blogs 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 xxxxx