IT'S MY BIRTHDAY (month) and Fuzzy Memories

My birthday this year has been great!  It all started on the 8th when Facebook announced to the world that it was my birthday.
I was getting calls and messages...

It wasn't my birthday.
My birthday was the next day.
(Maybe FB thought I was still in Japan where it WOULD have been my birthday...?)
Whatever.
I didn't complain.  I'll take praise and adulation whenever and where ever I can get 'em!

I've been celebrating ever since.

BUT, I've also had work to do.
Friday night was our ward Valentines Dance.

I'm the RS activity chair so I was there early and left late.
I think it went well...chocolate fondue was involved...
My friend Kristen came to the activity to teach a swing dancing lesson with her husband Shawn*.  (As a favor to me because she's awesome.)

Kristen and Shawn teaching us to Lindy Hop

{We've been friends since I moved to Carlsbad when I was 16.  She was great friends with my cousin Wendy so I got grandfathered in.  We were in the same grade, same class at church, and we've stayed friends for the last 18 years.  (Holy CRAP that's a long time!!!)
I was her bridesmaid.  She was my bridesmaid...you get the picture...!

I love her!}

After they taught their lesson, they left.

And snuck into my house.
Actually, they didn't sneak.  The babysitter, my niece Ashlin, let 'em in and Kristen toilet-papered my room leaving a beautiful Orchid in the middle of my bed.

Because she's awesome.

Don't mind the laundry piled at the foot of the bed

Partially made bed with part of a broken bubble wand on it for some reason

This isn't the first time she's pulled a stunt like this.
She decorated me 'n Fae's apartment for my 17th birthday and wrote "Emily Rules" in crepe paper on the ceiling.  (I believe Wendy and Mindy were co-conspiritors.)

I have mad scrap-booking skills, eh?!

I had only moved to Carlsbad two months before.  It had been a hard year.

On my birthday, a few girls went out of their way to spoil me and I felt very loved.

Sorta (but not quite) just like this year!

Moral of this story is some things never change:

I'm a lucky girl and Kristen is an awesome friend!!!

Happy Birthday to ME!

:)

*Shawn's not so bad either.  He created our logo, business cards, and website that we get tons of compliments on!!!