Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you for the birthday wishes! It really was wonderful! I just have to share about it.
Well, I worked all day, but my Grandmother (my Dad's mom) called and invited me to lunch. So, we went to this antique store that has this little cafe in the back for lunch, and wandered around looking at the antiques. I found a Mickey plate from 1988. If it had been 1985, I would have bought it.
Then back to work for me.
After work, I went to pick up my Grandmother (here on out known as Nanny), and we met my Mom and my best friend Joey at my other grandparents' house (Nana and Gran) to go to a restaurant called Babe's. Family style fried chicken, chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, green beans and biscuits. YUM!!! And....I took pictures!!
Biscuit with honey!
My food! Fried chicken, corn, biscuit, mashed potatoes and gravy!
Then, Mom brought out the thing I look forward to on my birthday every year. Homemade strawberry cake! Oh-my-goodness, this cake is sooo good. There are fresh strawberries in the cake and in the icing.
-I am not 42, it's just backwards.
And then...they made me dance around with a chicken on my head. It's a horrible picture, but really, who actually looks good with a chicken on their head? I included it for comic relief!
A pic of me and the GP's. Nanny, me, Nana and Gran.
A photo of me and my totally amazing parents.
And this is me and Joey. We've been best friends since 6th grade, we met when we were eleven years old, so it's almost 13 years now.
Present time!
This is my present from Kelsey. She couldn't go to dinner because she had to be at the school for choir. But when she got home, she gave me her present. And you could play the bag!!!!
It had the instructions for playing "Happy Birthday." That is what I was playing. Inside the bag was JAG Season 8 on dvd. I love JAG. I really do.
From Joey! So cute! I've never seen the movie either, so we are planning on watching it together.
From Mom and Dad! I love this dress. I can totally see myself wandering around Spain in it!
From Nana and Gran! Cute top!
Gran picked these out himself. Won't they match the dress my parents got me perfectly?
New shoes from Nanny! I love shoes.
Ok, so after dinner we went home, and then Joey and I decided that we wanted to go see 17 Again. And, we invited my Mom, Joey's Mom (conveniently also called Mom), Joey's sister Jordan, and Kelsey. About 10 minutes into the movie, Joey's husband John (still weird to me, and it's been a year!) came in. We were the only people in the theatre save for two people sitting way in the back. We had so much fun! We were laughing so loud, it was great. I thought the movie was good, personally.
Anyway, that was my 24th Birthday! Not too shabby, if you ask me!
I am just about finished packing for the weekend. I am leaving tomorrow morning for Oklahoma. My former roommate from VA is getting married in OK this weekend. The bachelorette party is tomorrow night, rehearsal on Friday, and the wedding is Saturday. I will bring back lots of pictures on Sunday! Hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and I'll talk to you next week!
Court
Oh, and there is one other thing coming up....hm.....oh, yes. Tomorrow (4/21) is my birthday. The big 2-4. It has taken a backseat to everything because...well. I am not sure why, but I haven't even thought about that fact that it is my birthday until yesterday. No plans at all for it, cause all of my time is devoted to getting prepared for all the other things that are coming up so soon. 
My family went through that whole ride with my great aunt. I'll pray things go well for her. And it sounds like you're having a lot of fun helping/planning for the wedding stuff for your friend! YAY!! I can't wait to see pictures. 
(in case I can't get on here tomorrow for some reason)
I wish I had done a notebook of some of my past trips. It sure would be funny looking back on them now. 
I still have many journals saved from when I was younger and I enjoy looking through them now and again. How wonderful you still had that! 
