Best Birthday Ever

I do not like birthdays.  Plain and simple.  I like other people's birthdays, but not my own.  I think this stems from being born on Thanksgiving and always feeling like we were celebrating my birthday on the way to our Thanksgiving celebration or on the way home from it.  If my birthday was on or after Thanksgiving no one wanted cake.  Everyone was always so tired of eating that they just politely took "a small piece".  I don't think it helped that one year we had to go gophering on my birthday.  Mom tired to make me feel better by saying we were just "giving the gophers some birthday cake", but the magic of a birthday was lost. 

Don't get me wrong, mom always did her best to make my birthdays special with my favorite meal and then in later years a homemade Red Robin style mudpie (that would take mom over 7 hours to make!).  I just don't really like receiving gifts and being the center of attention that a birthday brings.  Okay, so I like being the center of attention sometimes, but I don't like "having" to be the center of attention on a birthday. 

So knowing all of that, Mark had his work cut out for him.  He was determined to make it more than just any other day, and I was sure it would be just like any other birthday.  I was wrong.  From the moment I woke up until my head hit the pillow I was loved and pampered and throughly enjoyed the day. 

It started with the sweet aroma of biscuts and gravy filing the house.  I love biscuits and gravy!  It is my favorite breakfast food (actually one of the very few breakfast foods I even like).  The kitchen was decorated with balloons, signs and even window stickers.  More importantly, I got to spend the whole day with Mark!  He made the day special.  I felt like the birthday royality.

We went to Tri-Cities and out to dinner to the Bonefish Grill.  Later that night Mark said he needed to stop by mom and dad's place to pick something up he had left there or something he needed for work.  Needless to say, it was just a ploy to get me to my parents house where Mom and Dad, Crystal, Chris, Ashley, and Cailyn, Justina, Landon, Kendra, Braden and Malek were all waiting to have icecream birthday cake. 

I couldn't have asked for a better day.  Thank you Mark for making it all come together with my favorite things and more importantly, my favorite people.  I guess I do kind of like birthdays.  I actually woke up the next day a little sad that it wasn't my birthday anymore, so needless to say I'm already looking forward to my birthday next year!