to say that my birthday weekend was amazing would be an understatement. Kendrick made sure that the weekend was extra special, and he completely spoiled me! married-birthdays really are the best.
I got off work early on Friday and came home to Kendrick and a stack of beautifully wrapper presents. with it being my birthday weekend, I was allowed to open one of them, of course. we decided on the largest one (because I had maybe sorta bought it myself...)... a beautiful new Kate Spade bag! after cleaning up the house a bit, we were off to dinner.
Kendrick and I had eaten at Cheesecake Factory with his parents a few months back, and since then, I could not get the orange chicken that I had out of my head! so naturally, I picked the Cheesecake Factory for my birthday dinner. in retrospect, for what we spent, I would have probably picked somewhere else. the wait for our table was over an hour long, and my chicken ended up being pretty dry (and Kendrick wasn't too impressed with his fish and chips either). and to top it off, the Cheesecake Factory doesn't even offer free cheesecake for birthdays! what is this?!
we walked around City Creek for a little while, until we decided to call it a night. I'd like to say that we stayed up, doing exciting birthday things... but we were both out by 10 o'clock.
the next morning started early- it was my birthday! I was 24! Kendrick brought all of my presents in the room, and let me open them in bed. I'm telling you... for having such a manly husband, he picked me out some really, really pretty things.
(candle and bowl from anthropolgie, jewelry box from target, day planner from lilly pulitzer)
we got ready for the day, and headed to a crepe place called Greenhouse Effect Coffee and Crepes (crepes are one of my favorite foods, so Kendrick found this place for my celebratory birthday breakfast). it was a really neat place with outdoor seating underneath a beautiful vine covered pergola. I ordered the strawberries and cream crepe with a hot chocolate and Kendrick settled on the ham, cheese, and egg breakfast crepe. both were delicious!
the next few hours were spent apartment hunting. obviously, not the most fun of birthday activities, but Saturdays are really the only days that allow enough time to do that. however, the birthday gods must have been smiling on us that day, because we were able to find and apply for the perfect place in a prime location. crossing our fingers it works out!
for dinner, we met up with Harmony and Jeff at Rocky Mountain Raceways (tickets courtesy of my dad). it wasn't exactly the best dinner, but you really can't beat free. we watched the races for about 20 minutes before making other plans to see a movie with our friends Colin and Sara. we ended up seeing a new scary movie called The Visit, and it was pretty freaky- even Kendrick yelled out in the theater at a particularly jumpy part.
on sunday, my parents threw a birthday dinner for me and Danny, and Kendrick's sweet parents drove up to attend. we had hamburgers, corn on the cob, peach cobbler, and a heap of brownies in place of a birthday cake... in honor of me. because, how else would you honor me?
it was such a great birthday and I am beyond grateful for my family, friends, and cute husband that made it that way. here's to 24!
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