taco salad birthdays

my birthday is in 50 minutes =)

alison slept over last night, we woke up this morning and went to brunch with kristin at double t. we all go blueberry pancakes they were excellently delicious. came back and watched some full house with sarah. ate taco salad for dinner. sarah and i looked up super expensive houses in various states. alison and jimmy came over around 9 and we watched ella enchanted. now we're watching myth busters and the guys are swimming through syrup.

not sure what's up for tomorrow. maybe some delicious muffins, random hanging around and other fun things.

happy birthday alison

dear alison,

happy birthday goofball :) 

love,

em

freshman year

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junior year

senior year

now

cupcakes

happy birthday, dad! 

love, skeeter 

Happy Birthday to Me

I'm officially 18! I gotta say being 18 doesn't feel any different than 17 or 16 or 15 or 14 except that now I can buy endless amounts of lottery tickets (not that i ever wanted to... ), sign forms and drive after midnight.

Okay, so for starters Alison came over yesterday and we stayed up until midnight because she has a thing for making me open presents at exactly midnight. Megan had brought over some birthday cake before she left for college Tuesday morning too. It's so tasty! (Thanks Megan!!) 

Fell asleep and then woke up around 7:30 to make some blueberry muffins! After the muffins were done we headed over to Centennial Park to eat them and play on the playground. Alison's parents asked her to stay at her house for a few hours to wait for a package so we all ended up going over there and swimming. Sarah had volleyball practice at 12:30 so it was just Alison and I for lunch. Drove over to Royal Farms to get some gas and then went across the street to pick up some pizza and slurpees. Took it back to her house to eat and watch a movie.

Around 2:30 Alison got me in the car and blindfolded me. For a while now she's been telling me that there was a "super secret birthday surprise". Turns out that we were going to a petting zoo! There is a petting zoo on 108 that has a bunch of stuff left over from the Enchanted Forest (a really old amusement park type thing in ellicott city). There were also bunches of farm animals to pet and feed. There was the cutest cow there! I wanted to bring him home with me. 

After my dad got home we all went out to dinner at the Olive Garden for some tasty pasta, breadsticks and salad. Came home and played a game called "In the Pickle" Ate some cake and now we're watching Little Miss Sunshine. Actually only i'm watching it, Alison fell asleep :) 

It was a pretty awesome birthday :) 

You Jump, I Jump Jack

Sunday we had a going away/late graduation/early birthday party... complete with a Tigger moonbounce! Yes, I realize that i'm turning 18 but come on, everyone loves Tigger! It was pretty awesome, we did tons and tons of bouncing and consumed lots of tasty burritos and cake. I think pictures pretty much do the justification on this one for the level of fun we had on the moonbounce. After a slight misunderstanding with the company, we got Tigger just in time for the party and actually got to keep him until this morning so I did have an 8 am bounce.

eating breakfast on the deck

ever (our next door neighbor) and lane (ever's cousin) 

it's moonbouncing time!

(l-r: megan, alison, ever, me, carolyn... taking a break from bouncing)

(my favs)

elisa and corey :)

munching on some tasty burritos

the whole gang (l-r: corey, elisa, megan, alison, ever, me, sarah, ariel, carolyn, jen)

carrot cakeeeeeee

<3

poor tigger with no air

sarah and i bouncing late at night

tiggers enormous head

sarah, alison, liz and megan during our late night bounce

Happy Birthday, Eric!

Happy Birthday, Eric!

Happy Birthday Alison

I’m not sure if any of you have noticed but some of the tenses in these past couple posts have been a little off. That’s because i’m writing them all ON THE SAME DAY. Sneaky, huh? Well, I wouldn’t usually do this but I haven’t been home since last Friday and since there have been a flurry of activities I figured it would be better to post them all individually as to not confuse anyone. Plus, I really just wanted to be able to use more pictures =]

Anyway, last weekend (saturday to monday night) since my parents were in pittsburgh, I just spent it all at Alison’s house. Then Tuesday (yesterday) was Alison’s 18th birthday so I decided to just hang around longer. And then what’s one more day? I slept over tuesday night too because we wanted to sleep on her sun porch since it was raining. We watched tons of gilmore girls, went to the mall, got our picture taken at the place Alison works, saw Indiana Jones with Alison’s family, ate a delicious cake that Hunter made, played bocce ball and did other random amusing things that I cannot seem to remember at the moment. All of that, of course, did not happen in one day. Last night Alison and I saw Made of Honor with Patrick (who happens to work at the movie theater and can get us free tickets pretty much whenever we want, pretty sweet huh? :) ).

This morning was rather interesting. The rest of Alison’s family got up and left around 7 and we didn’t have to wake up then so when 8 am rolled around we got up (keep in mind we’re freezing here since we accidentally left the windows open and there isn’t heat anyway) and realized the door was locked. Mrs. Mariano ended up having to come home from school and let us in --- oops :)

A Weekend of Celebration

This past weekend was spent in Hawthorne, NJ for a combined celebration of my aunt barb’s birthday, my aunt and uncle’s anniversary and, of course, mother’s day.

We drove up Friday night (a record for the longest time it has taken to get up there: a whopping 6 hours). Stopped in Delaware for dinner at a local pizza place. Saturday morning we woke up and began preparations for the party that night (because what is party without lots of food and christmas lights??) . Saturday night some of my Aunt’s friends from work came (along with our two families) and we had some pretty tasty food! I don’t even think I can remember it all: stuffed mushrooms, asparagus, shrimp, eggplant dip, and pasta from a restaurant called Rocca’s. Not to mention the dessert-- chocolate cake, tortoni (italian cupcake looking deliciousness) and frushi (like sushi but with fruit and for dessert!). Let’s just say there was no shortage of good food. Anyway, Sunday we woke up, hung around in the yard and ate some rhubarb crumbcake (mmmm!). Then we got the idea to go look at some new model houses that were a few minutes away, turns out they weren’t open but that didn’t stop us from looking in the windows! Eric, Sarah and I decided that we would each buy one of the houses and live next door to each other (ignoring the fact that we couldn’t even cough up a million dollars total). They were nice to look at anyway. On the ride home from NJ Sarah has informed me that she has planned out my life and she would not enjoy living next to me because she thinks I’m going to end up with a zoo of children and then make her babysit (haha). Turns out she has not only thought of this but also come up with names for all of my children (i don’t remember any of the names but I was hoping she was joking because they were a tad out there ;) ) I decided I probably won’t be taking her up on her obnoxious name advice in the future but I guess it gave her something to do in the car.