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

That'll Do Pig...

Now that I've finally finished that vacation post I can get back to the everyday shenanigans that go on around here.

Let's see, Sunday night Alison slept over and we made a carrot cake! It was the tastiest thing ever. You see, we have this list that we formulated earlier this year of all the things we wanted to do together before I leave for college. We're about 3/4ths of the way through the list.. probably not going to finish it all before I leave in 17 days, but thats what thanksgiving/christmas breaks are for :) 

(we had to dye a large bowl of frosting orange for the carrot on top of the cake)

Yesterday my mom spent over 5 hours sanding a ceiling.. yes, a CEILING. You know the whole craining your neck for hours on end with your hand above your head.. doesn't sound very fun :( Anyway, she asked Sarah and I to make dinner so we set off to Giant and decided on greek salad, hummus, bread and cheese.. followed by carrot cake of course ;) Just for the heck of it we ate in the dinner room (a room we've had dinner in twice in the past 10 or so years..)