Celebrating a Quarter of a Century

Last weekend I celebrated my 25th birthday, and as my dad put it, I am now a quarter of a century old.  Wow, that sounds old!  On Friday, JW told me he wanted to take me out to dinner to celebrate.  We had things planned with family on Saturday and Sunday, so we were going to go out to dinner just the two of us... or so I thought!  Just before we were about to leave, there was a knock at our door.  JW looked at me and said, "Who's that?"  I didn't know, so we went to the door and when we opened it, look who I found...  Shay Bear flew in from Dallas to surprise me for my birthday!

Turns out, he and Shay had been scheming for a month.  I was so surprised!  I had really been missing my girl friends (who for the most part live in Dallas except for Emily who was out of town this weekend), and started crying after I squealed and tackled her.  My mom had picked Shay up from the airport, so she brought her over and got this picture with Shay's camera when I opened the door.  Love it.  Now all the nagging that JW did to pick up the house all week made sense.  He even made sure the guest room was clean and had fresh sheets and towels.  He's a good husband.

Needless to say, I was happy to share my birthday dinner on Friday with Shay too! :)  We tried to go to Chuy's, but it was packed, so we went to another Mexian resaurant down the street from us called Molinas.  Then, we went to the City Center and walked around for awhile and finished off the evening with Marble Slab... yum rainbow morsels. :)

Saturday morning Shay and I had some good girl time and headed to TJ Maxx/Homegoods while JW worked on bar prep, and then had my favorite for lunch- Cafe Express.  My parents had invited us over to swim in the afternoon, and then my dad grilled us yummy steaks for dinner.  His steaks and baked beans are the best!  Mom got this amazing cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes.  It is now one of my favorites.  It was delicious!

After dinner I got to open presents, and then we played Apples to Apples.  It was a really great day.

Sunday was my actual birthday, and JW and Shay sang to me and I got donuts in bed.  Shay did a great job documenting the morning before they woke me up. :)

Lovely morning pictures...

I got to open my gift from JW, a beautiful gold and pearl bracelet he found pinned on one of my Pinterest boards. He is so resourceful. :)

Everyone came to tell me good morning.

Apparently the girls were tired since JW woke them up to be part of the birthday festivities, so they went back to bed. 

We got ready for church and went to BCF again.  We were slightly late because I was having a wardrobe melt-down and couldn't decide what to wear.  It was fun to have a girl friend there though to give opinions on the 50 different things I tried on. :)  After church we went to Cafe Express again for lunch.  Not very creative, I know, but I did order something different.  I just love that place and have been making up for lost time now that we're in Houston.

After lunch we took Shay back to the airport and ran some errands in the afternoon before Jenn and Momma Hance came over and took us out to dinner to celebrate that night.  It was a great birthday weekend, and I sure felt loved!  Thank you friends and family for making it special!