Birthday Continued

Ok here is the promised birthday post... enjoy seeing how incredible the people in my life are...

So instead of just a 1 day birthday, I got 5!!! Each day I was presented with a letter from Matt explaining what was happening that day and what the theme was...\

Day 1- New Found Romance
-This day was dedicated to remembering when Matt and I started dating so we went out with our friends, Jon and Trista, who at the time had been dating for 4 days. We went bowling and watched part of Wolverine. This day Matt gave me some funds for my India trip!

Day 2- The Parents
-My parents came up for my concert and to celebrate. They brought Cindy Shearer too. After the concert, my parents, Cindy, Matt and I went out to Bourbon Street and had a VERY fun little birthday party there with cute little cupcakes and the biggest birthday present EVER?!? (Matthew got me a sports bag and mom could only find the LARGEST bag EVER to fit it. My parents also gave me some money for India...such a blessing. And Cindy gave me an adorable scarf) Don't I have great parents and wonderful friends?!?

Day 3- Matt and My Time
-Matt picked me up and brought me to Brown Bottle to celebrate. Although we spent most of the time listening to the very entertaining conversation of a senior boy on his way to prom, it was still wonderful! We got dessert to go and went to the top of the union and ate it. The only problem is that it was raining so we sat, me on his lap trying to stay dry under the umbrella and eating our desserts... on top of the union. We then went and finished Wolverine at his house.

Day 4- Friends Time
-On Sunday, a few of my friends took me out to Hu Hot for dinner! They blindfolded me and drove me around forever so that I had no idea where I was. Then they walked me blindfolded through the mall to the restaurant! Aren't they hilarious?!? It was so much fun to have this time with them and just enjoy each other.

Day 5- Triple the Fun
-The Actual Day: April 26th. This day started out at midnight when my roommates alarm went off, a tired little "happy birthday Amy" was heard and then the night of sleep continued. Then after my first class, my music friends decided that we shouldn't go to our next class so we skipped and went to Panera! :) Then during my next class, Nicole and Chris called so I just ran out of the room and got to talk to them... they also left me quite the HILARIOUS message this day! I got to also talk to my amazing brother, handsome father, and charming mother and each one of them had their own little additions into the day! I have the best family EVER! At 5:30, I was picked up again by Matt and brought on a triple date with our friends Abbey, Sky, Lauren, and Steven. Abbey and Lauren got me the cutest gift... a picnic present (stone pie dish, frisbee, picnic blanket, bubbles, pineapple, sparkling cider, glasses, glowing hair flower, etc) Then after dinner with them I went to bible study and Kristin, our leader, had made a birthday cake. This wasn't just for me since 4 of us have our birthdays within 2 weeks. It was wonderful celebrating this day with every one!

Thanks to all who called, texted, left messages, saw me, etc. You are all SO amazing!

To Come...

News update about the BEST birthday ever is coming... I just have to get caught up on my homework but just thought you should all be waiting anxiously to hear how AMAZING my boyfriend, family, and friends are! They are incredible! Thank you all for making this day fabulous!

Summer Come Quick... but not.

OR

I have the worst case of Summer Fever that I think I ever have and that is a really bad thing right now. We have less than two weeks of the semester left and I have SOO much homework to do but can't get myself to do it. All I want to do is go lay outside in the sun and do nothing! So although I want summer to be here faster than anything, I still need as much time as I can get to catch up on all the things that I have procrastinated on!

O my goodness!

Manly...Spam...Shrines...huh?

So although spring break was almost a month ago now, I am just getting around to blogging about it. Life goes way too fast. But here goes...

Friday- Got home later in the night and got kinda sick.

Saturday- Was kinda sick all day so I mostly stayed in bed and did some random events. :)

Sunday- Sick in the morning but then got up and hung out with the family the rest of the night.

Monday- Painted most of the upstairs of our house and made some HUGE progress. (check out "SUCCESS!!!" blog post)

Tuesday- Left late morning with four other girls (Bekah and Abbey Hanish, Bailey Soderstrum, and Laura McCasland) and drove up to Wisconsin Dells. We had some sweet stops along the way just to make the drive more entertaining!
Stop #1: Manly, Iowa (we had to stop just because of the name)

Me attempting to hold up the Manly Water tower!

An attempt at being "Manly"

Stop #2: Spam Museum (what vacation is complete without a stop at the Spam Museum?!?)

Future Employees???

We learned all about the fascinating history of SPAM

Stop #3: Lady Guadalupe Shrine (we had no idea what this was but it sounded fun so we went)

We drove over half an hour to get to this place and got there at 4:05. It closed at 4:00. BUMMER!!! (but we still went in) :)

Just a fun sister picture...inspired by my sweet cousin, Terilee.

Lady Guadalupe

We stayed at one of my parent's timeshares and once we got there we went grocery shopping, got what we thought would be a chick-flick (instead it was so depressing), and ate ice cream and cookie dough. SIDE NOTE: Right as we pulled in my contact ripped so I had to go the rest of the trip without contacts but with glasses that are not even close to the right prescription! :)

Wednesday- We stayed home in the morning and had some great God time and then met up at lunch for pancakes and bacon! Then we decided to go to Broadway which looked like it would be a sweet place but ended up being quite grungy and kinda gross. :) It was still fun though.

The "German" section of Broadway.

There were lots of candy shops on Broadway and in one of them they had some sweet hats so instead of eating candy, we just wore the hats!

Then that night we decided to make up for our day and go to a really cool looking pub on the river. We got there and it was basically empty and then as we walked up to the doors we looked inside and it was a bunch of older men playing pool. Not quite the place we wanted to eat. :) So instead we went to a Japanese Steakhouse which made the entire day!!! It was so cool!

An Angel

That night we had smoothies and attempted our luck at another chick-flick but with NO SUCCESS YET AGAIN! We also looked at bridal magazines and did our nails! Quite the fun girls night!

Thursday- We packed up and left. I ended up getting sick again on the way home so we didn't really make any stops during this leg of the trip. Then once we got home we all went our separate ways and I slept some more and spent a bit of time with the family.

Friday- We did some more work on the house and Papa and I put polyurethane on all of the boards for the porch ceiling. Then we had a fun movie night and watched "A Time to Kill" which is a FABULOUS movie!

Saturday- Just hung out and did some last minute homework. Then I hung out some more with Mom, Dad, and Papa and then headed back to UNI.

A very successful Spring Break if I may say so! It was SO great to be home with my family and enjoy the peacefulness of my house!