My birthday yesterday was so special! Beware for a very long post of me ranting about my family's awesomeness. When I went upstairs, my mom gave me a bouquet of beautiful pink roses!
Then my mom and I went for a long walk, which is always fun. :) And during this time of year, always freezing. :P
After lunch (taco salad!!), I went to get my driver's license renewed. A couple little blessings happened while there. 1) the lady who helped me was really nice, which is not usually the case at the government center; and 2) I got $3.50 off of my renewal.
When I stopped at Caribou Coffee to get my free coffee, the guy at the counter gave me a medium instead of a small. :) That was pretty awesome!
I sat downstairs and made some cards since I took the day off school and my mom gave me another treat:
I LOVE red velvet...anything. So my mom bought me a red velvet chocolate chip muffin. It was delicious! :)
And this made my day:
We took some pictures:
My brother, Aidan (12), and me
My sister, Frankie (14), and me
Later, when my dad came home, we opened presents. Opening gifts is always fun, of course, but my mom put something together that was super special and fun. She bought me 18 different gifts that reminded her of me. They weren't big gifts, rather they were goofy, yet still useful. :P On each gift, she posted a little Post-It note, either explaining it or giving a hint as to what it was.
a delicious piece of red velvet cake (which I split with my
mom and sister for breakfast this morning)
my mom is very sensitive to smells, so buying soap for our
house is difficult, because I like nice-smelling soaps/lotions.
So she bought me some soap that smells pretty good. :P
I think I've probably said this on here before,
but I love Sharpies.
I get frustrated when there are no Kleenex boxes to be found in our
house, so she bought me own pretty one. :)
I also love adorable stationary. I have tons of versatile and
"thank-you" cards laying around in my various drawers.
these are amazing! I always having them for my desk while
I'm doing school.
this is pretty much a gag gift. I am not an animal person
at all, so this might actually come in handy sometime. :)
about a week ago, I made a comment that my lips were "addicted"
to chapstick (which is pretty much true). so my attentive
mom threw this in the mix of things!
this past fall, we did a lot of work outside making my mom's square-foot
gardens and laying hundreds of bricks down. even before this fall,
whenever I buy gardening/work gloves, they always go missing -
someone takes them. so, these are my own. :)
I love pistachios. this was her cute little note.
"kkkkk" is Brazil's way of writing "hahaha"
this is silly: I have a couple of favorite washcloths. every time we go
to the store I ask for a couple more. I'm told: "not until they're on sale."
this is really silly! :P for about two or three months, I was making fried
eggs every morning for myself. I still do, just not as often. anyway, I would
only use one spatula, because the other spatulas that we had, their shapes
were weird. so my mom bought me my own, in the same general shape
as the one I like, to put in my home chest.
she picked these 4 gifts because of how much I love organizing things.
often times, if my sister and I are sitting around doing nothing, we will
start talking about old TV shows/movies we used to love and watch when
we were little. lately, I have also realized that I really did learn a lot from
these shows or that certain things will remind me of them. recently, a few
things have reminded me of An American Tail. I loved this movie, so now
I'm looking forward to watching it soon! :)
on Pinterest, I read about a lady who had saved every 5-dollar bill that she
received: in change, as a gift, payment, etc. in just a couple years, she had saved
thousands of dollars in five-dollar bills! so, I decided to start that...that's the story
behind this one. :)
my brother made this awesome card for me! I love it!
but it got even cooler when I opened it up...
it glowed! there's a battery taped to the back of the card and he scratched
this "S" on a piece of plastic and the battery is turning on a light! he
showed me how to remove and and replace the battery, too.
I have been playing HerInteractive's Nancy Drew computer games
since I was maybe 9ish. Frankie bought me the newest one! :D
My family knows me well! :D My mom made her homemade pizza at my request and we watched a movie. I finished up the night with Blue Bunny's Red Velvet ice cream. And also felt like I was going to throw up due to all the "red velvet" I ate! haha
I had a blessed day with multiple texts, emails, and a lot of Facebook notifications. :) I also got to spend about 45 minutes on the phone with a friend. I had a very special first day of my "adulthood".
Love in Christ,
Sierra
