The Best Birthday Weekend!!

Hey Birthday Buddy! Sad we couldn't share our usual celebration this year with Lazy Dazey cake and chuckie cheeses. We will again someyear soon. Hope you had a SUPER birthday!!

For those of you who don't know my dad and I share the same birthday. Celebrating birthdays with him, and being his buddy is the best birthday gift I could ever ask for!! He is just a little older(32 years to be exact). This pic is from a byu football game last fall. Happy Birthday Dad! love you!

Saturday morning we hiked up to the largest white fir tree in N America. We did this with our church ward. It was so fun!

Sunday Bens parents made a yummy dinner for us, and we celebrated with gifts and the best cake ever(Chocolate and fluffy white-Marcia you must try this- I promise it will be your new all time fav)!!!

Ben was the best! He was such a stud and made me breakfast and my favorite birthday dinner that night. French fries and ringed sausage. Yumm! He made strawberry cheesecake(no bake) for dessert! he was quite the chef. It was all delish! Then we opened gifts and went to the movies and saw "The sisters Keeper"(A good story, really sad, and quite the tear jerker for those who have yet to see it). It was the greatest night ever! Thanks for making it so special Ben! Thanks to everyone who called and sent cards, etc, too!

Saturday Night we went with our friends on a Birthday date. We did this last year too. Bens old room mate Tyler and his fiancee Mackenzie are our regular birthday celebration buddies. Mackenzie's and I have the same birthday so its always so fun celebrating with them. Don't worry Dad, you have not been replaced, believe it or not there are about 1 million people with our same birthday. In salt lake we went to Johnny Carinos for dinner, and then went to the Salt Lake Real soccer game. Ben caught a free t-shirt and black rubber bracelet. Free! we were excited.

Friday. We went with Cami and Juan to the ward grill out. So much good food, and its always fun seeing Cami and Juan. They are in our student married here at BYU, so we see them in passing quite often. Its fun. After we went to the dollar movies and saw UP. so good but I forgot to take our drinks we were going to "sneak in" in the freezer(thought it would be a quick chill option, guess not). Instead we had rootbear slushies saturday afternoon. :)

1. Back to school pics. Common' didn't all your mothers do this to you? But instead usually the picture came at the bus stop with all the other neighbor kids right? haha good times. We started school Monday, and regardless of age, I insisted on documenting to never forget this happy memory. I made Ben add in the lunch bag just to make it seem more real, I would never let him carry that next to me on campus!

2. Here's a picture of the canvas I painted with Miriam's supervision to embellish my bathroom. Ben thought I bought it, it is that good he said. haha ok. I'll take the compliment. It was so fun doing this with Mir, she is such a professional when it comes to canvas painting. She's done it lots, and they all look way neat. Ask her to post some pics.

3. This is part of the rag quilt I made for Ben's parents. It turned out way better than this, but unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the finished product. I will snag one sometime soon.

4. A picture taken on 4th of July this year. We spent the 3rd with friends playing games, and this was taken on their lawn. I missed lots of great posting opportunities this summer, but hey its over, got to move on, and hopefully capture it better next year! :)

Thanks for all you posting often! I love reading and seeing all the cute pics! :)