Day 11: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

It's Day 11 and that can only mean one thing.......HAPPY 24TH BIRTHDAY JORDAN!!!!!! Yipeeee it's not even my birthday and I'm so excited it's finally here! Clearly, it's almost 1:30 in the morning and I'm updating this. Between Jordan's birthday celebration and the start of family fun weekend, I'm so antsy and anxious to leave town tomorrow that I feel a restless night coming on! Jordan's big gift was a cookie cake from Great American Cookies and money for a new hybrid golf club. First off, if you've never had cookies from GAC, you're 100% missing out. They're like crack, so soft and thin and so incredibly delicious. And for the money, I had to get a little creative with it because I'm not his parent or grandparent so I wasn't going to be lame and just put it in a card. So, I got a giant wad of one dollar bills and started to make it rain. No really, it happened. I taped all of them together, then accordion-style folded them and put them in a tall kleenex box that I had decorated to resemble a golf hole. Jordan's face while opening the gift was classic. I wish I had been recording it and not just snapping pictures...it went from excited, to confused, to realllllly confused, then to excited then to thinking, "what the hell?!!" because the money just kept coming and coming and coming and coming out of the "golf hole" and it was priceless! He was very pleasantly surprised and I'm sure was wishing we weren't leaving for the weekend because I bet he would have went to Scheels the next day to get the new club and test it out! Good thing there's all summer to play with the club....

money scarf!

Happy 24th Birthday, Jordan. You are truly amazing and simply the best. You make me laugh and smile each and everyday and show me unconditional love. Thank you for always supporting me, encouraging me and helping me become a better person and woman. You are the best and I'm the lucky one to have you in my life, which is why I can't wait to be your wife! I love you so much...here's to a lifetime of celebrating birthdays together!

Now I should try to get a few hours of sleep....we have a busy weekend ahead of us! Eeeekk it's finally here! I can't wait to see my parents, have some cold drinks with my siblings and cousins and be surrounded by the love and laughs of my whole family! What a great Friday! I'm so blessed to have the life I have and the people in it!