Birthday (last week)

So I want to take this opportunity (that I have created for myself by putting off other, different things) to write about my fantastic birthday!

some of you already know that I succeeded in getting the whole day off work! YAY! I was so happy about that because they'd actually asked me to work all day 8-5 and what college kid wants to do that huh? So, our part time receptionist actually offered to cover for me all day. Sweet!

Jennifer and I made some plans to go to the zoo during the day and I am not going to lie, I was excited. I woke up and laid in bed and watched Grey's Anatomy from the night before. Then I got ready for the zoo. I love the zoo and I love love love going to the zoo with kids, it just isn't the same going without anyones eyes really lighting up with wonder at all the stupendous animals. A little side note: Joe doesn't like the zoo, he said ever since he went to Africa and saw those animals in their natural habitat it just hasn't been the same. He sweetly agreed to go with me in December, but I shouldn't have kept asking him to go because I could tell he wasn't necessarily enjoying himself. Not the way a kid would. We are totally going to get year long zoo passes when we have kids if we live close enough to a zoo.

Continuing on. After driving down to Ft. Worth with Jennifer and the kids (and I am so glad my nephews don't scream during car rides) we get close to the zoo and there is a ton of traffic to get in there. We can't imagine it being so busy, I mean, seriously it is a cloudy school day. But it was, they were even having people park on the grass. So instead of pushing our way through the zoo, we decided to hit the Cowgirl museum. It was fun. I'd only heard of it, and the kids had a ball. They have this cute little "market" downstairs that they can load up a kid size shopping cart with food, then "check out". The upstairs was fun, small, but a lot of info about cowgirls and then dress up stuff for the kids.

After I got home, Jessica and I went for frozen yogurt. Jess got me these adorable earrings! I haven't hung out with her in a while and she wanted to try this new frozen yogurt place. DELICIOUS! I don't know that I've ever just gotten frozen yogurt before, but the yorurt was so good and you can choose all these different toppings to put on it. I couldn't decide what flavor to get so i got, peanut butter, then chocolate, then cookies and cream all stacked on top of eachother. I should have just got the peanut butter and chocolate one because they were the best.

The surprise!

For my bday I knew Joe was planning a surprise. I got all dressed up and ready and we went to Frisco and as we were pulling into Buca's (one of my favorite restaraunts) I see Kristen, Brenna, and Allan walking accross the parking lot. What a great surprise! Jen came too, and Brett (Kristen's boyfriend) and we had a great dinner and talked and laughed. It was the greatest surprise! I also loved my gifts, Kristen and Brenna got me some shower gel and lotion (that smells great), Joe's mom got me some great piano music and 2 cds! I am excited to learn some of the songs, I started some today. Joe got me the 3 Twilight books that I didn't have. Yes, I read them already, people keep asking me that when I tell them. I re-read books. A lot. Especially the good ones.

I had a great day!