The end!

Well, my birthday week is over and I won't lie I'm pretty happy about that. Don't get me wrong it was a great week! But it was a long week. I went from being super happy to really sad to extremely excited to bummed to completely frustrated and upset to being so overwhelmed with gratitude then had a slight case of being annoyed but finished it off with being happy again :)

I think it's pretty hilarious how much I had planned out the week and almost nothing went as planned. That always happens...or maybe it's just me I don't know. But something that I realized is that things definitely change when you get older. Maybe it's because we all have other, more important things to worry about and our minds are too full of worries and everyday stress that we don't have time or room for silly things like birthdays. Or maybe we just forget how to feel like a kid again and really fully enjoy a day that is especially for you. I really don't know what it is to be honest. All I know is my birthday didn't even feel like a birthday and much to my surprise...I didn't really care.

I was pleasantly surprised to see how many people I have in my life that care about me and want to make me happy. We have a tradition in our family that everytime someone has a birthday we go around and tell them what we like about them. As embarrassing it can kind of get sometimes, it's interesting to know really what it is they like about you. None of us ever say that we only like them because we have to, we all have genuine reasons why we enjoy being around that person. And I can honestly say I enjoy being around every single person in my family. Maybe not for extremely long periods of time but that's rare in any case for me. I always kind of wonder, am I the way that I am personality wise because of my family and the way I was brought up or did God know that I was going to have that personality so He sent me to a family that He knew would have similar traits? Maybe I'll ask Him someday :) All I know is that a good portion of the reason I had a good birthday was because of my family.

Another reason I had a good birthday is because of my wonderful friends! I was with them 5 out of the 7 days of my birthday week and it really stuck out to me how much my friends care about me. I mean I really do have amazing friends! That is what friends are supposed to be like and I'm so glad I have friends that appreciate me. We had an amazing party on Friday and it was just so great to see all (well most) of my friends there and interacting and OH it just made me so happyyy!!! I had a lot of fun and I'm so grateful to my friends for that. I love them!



12? No...



21?! YESSS!!! The beautiful cake that my friends made for me :) hahaha



Ryan with the cake on his face! That was his birthday present to me...then I got to lick it off..haha jk

 Then on Saturday we planned this big group date that was a lot of fun as well. We went out to Beaver Dick park and started a fire and made tin foil dinners and then we watched Nacho Libre with my dad's projector. It was very stressful for me at first because I couldn't connect the projector with my laptop for the first like...30 minutes so I was freaking out. All of my hard work ALMOST went down the drain but nope! It ended up working :) thank goodness. Anyway besides the fact that it was super duper cold outside it was a lot of fun. Just a bunch of my really good friends all hangin out together doin something fun and creative that you just don't do everyday! (Wish I had pictures but I don't...have I mentioned that I'm HORRIBLE at taking pictures?) It was a great end to the week and I'm very content. Just happy that all that stress is over and done. Uhh k I'm done.

Love, Joy