Happy Birthday to me!

Well I'm officially another year!  Yesterday was my 25th birthday.  While I had some reservations about becoming 25, I had quite a lovely day and felt very loved by my friends and family.  

As usual, I have been able to spread my birthday out over a long period of time. In September, I celebrated my birthday with my parents, sister and Nanny as I was not going to be home for Thanksgiving, when I usually celebrate it with them.  It was nice to have them up and be able to celebrate with them, even if it was a month early.  Of course this meant that when I called my Nanny last night, she had completely forgotten it was my actual birthday, seeing as she had already celebrated it!  

This past weekend, my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and nephew came up and brought my birthday gift, a nice Ontario cookbook and a new Kinect dance game.  The game has a workout mode, which I am excited about using over the winter!  

On Monday, my small group celebrated with me by having party hats, non-noise makers, cupcakes and a gift!  My favourite party was when I came in and they all jumped up and shouted happy birthday and Chrissy slid on one knee to the floor doing jazz hands...the only one doing it.  :)  THAT is one reason I love you, Chrissy Vance.

On Tuesday, my actual birthday, John sent me a beautiful fall bouquet of flowers to my work.  It's complete with a small pumpkin in it!

My work got me a cake and card for me.  While I knew they were doing it, I did wonder at first if they had forgotten, but then realized when I went to get the mail that they were going to have the cake ready when I came back, which they did. You can trick the woman who plans everyone else's birthdays in the office :P

Tuesday night John planned a lovely special dinner for me. He told me that I was not allowed to come home until after 6pm, so I went grocery shopping after work and then into some other stores at College Square until I was allowed to come home.  When I got home, John was waiting at the door to take the bags from me, with my slippers all ready :)  He had all the curtains closed with candles lit leading to the dinning room...

He had the table all set up with an appetizer bread tower with vinegar to dip in it.  It was really cool!

Then we had a main course of lemon pepper shrimp fettucini, with a giant brownie and lemon-blueberry tart for dessert.  John won't sing in front of me, so he had a youtube video set up on his phone to play "happy birthday" while he brought out the desserts with candles.

It was a wonderful dinner, followed by a movie and some time in the hot tub.  All in all, it was a great birthday!