Happy Birthday to Me! (And to JoyfulAbode.com)

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned 24! Woo hoo!
And today is JoyfulAbode.com’s birthday. Check out the first-ever real post, from May 28th, 2007… Desk Makeover.

I didn’t really do anything to commemorate JoyfulAbode.com’s birthday but maybe I will do a belated thing later… it’s hard to keep up with things in the middle of a move. Speaking of which, we spent our first night in our house last night! We still don’t have much in the house (it’s all still in storage until the movers get it to us) but it was nice to be there!

For my birthday, we went “into town” and did a little bit of shopping. We got some shirts and jeans for the guy, and I got a new shirt too. Then we went to lunch (I already forgot the name of the place… but it was like an Applebee’s sort of).

First we shared some French onion soup. Not too great… I want to try making some at home sometime though.

Then I doodled on the table while we chatted and waited for our entrees. 3 points go to whoever can correctly tell me the origin of this quote… but no googling or other methods of cheating! I seriously love places that have paper and crayons on the table…

Mmmm… my salad. The guy had a Philly cheesesteak.

And this place gives free dessert to birthday girls and boys! I picked out a fried brownie… it was amazing. It came with vanilla ice cream and lots of whipped cream…

Mmmmmmm…

The man helped me finish it off.

Then we went to PetCo and did a scavenger hunt… I had a list of puppy essentials (from the book The Art of Raising Puppies by the Monks of New Skete… very good read) and we found them all and wrote down prices. Very exciting. I hope we find a good puppy when we go to South Carolina!

After that, we went to Lowe’s and my hubby bought me the makings of a (container) veggie garden! I couldn’t be more excited.

This is me being excited.

The veggies waited in the back of the truck while we watched Narnia: Prince Caspian (which was only okay, but VERY pretty to watch… and gorgeous costumes).

This post probably already broke your computer with so many pictures, so I’ll save the garden post for tomorrow. *grin*

In all, it was a fantastic birthday, and I got very nice phone calls from my parents, my little sister, and my dear friend Meagan. I always love that part. You know, where they either burst out into song or pretend that they don’t know what today is, “Hey, is something special happening today? I can’t remember what it is! Do you know what today is??” haha. Thanks, you guys.