Quarter of a Century

What a brilliantly wonderful birthday I had yesterday! Let's see if I can recap it all:

I woke up at 3:30am b/c I was really excited and praised God for not having any pain at that particular time.

Stayed awake until 4:30am checking to see who was on the ball with birthday wishes on facebook (that would be people in Eastern Time for the most part).

I woke up at 6:00 and got dressed to go running and watch the sunrise. :) It was GORGEOUS.

Came home, had my Quiet Time, got dressed in my tie-dye shirt and pink shorts - tie-dye is PERFECT for my birthday!

I got to go to work at BigHouse. (I wasn't able to work on Tuesday b/c of pain.) Micah made me some crescent rolls. We manned-up and got a dead bird out of the House...eek!

I checked my PO Box and got a card from my parents and one from Hayden and Brittany.

I took a nap.

I came back to BigHouse and had a birthday celebration with Felicity and Drew, one of our volunteers (their birthdays are on Sunday).

I went to Julie's house and got to open my present there - a tie-dye watch that matched my colors perfectly!, a travel journal (for my missionary journeys she said :) ), and balloons!

We went to eat sushi with Jacky. Got an AMAZING roll - the Longhorn. Oh my word.

We picked up Libby, put our names in for bowling, and got ice cream at TCBY (chocolate and peanut butter soft serve....YUM! Yes, my evening was full of foods on the headache bad-list).

Came back and bowled with Julie, Jacky, Libby, Bridget, and Amber - all my Bible study girls. Opened more presents! It was SO MUCH FUN! My scores weren't too great - 112, 137, 151 - but the 151 game I bowled a turkey (3 strikes in a row) which was one of my goals. I love a birthday turkey!

Finally went to bed around 1 AM.

It was a very great day. It wasn't pain-free, but I was able to do what I wanted, so that's the important part to me. Hopefully my 26th birthday won't have any headaches getting in the way!