friday night i kicked off birthday weekend by celebrating a friend's birthday (the beautiful miss kristen dalla rizza). five of us had dinner at pf chang's to honor our sweet friend. after dinner, liz and i headed to clemson to watch the clemson/carolina baseball game. much to our dismay, we lost. we headed back to greenville, and shortly before midnight the facebook birthday wall posts started rolling in. not gonna lie, i love seeing who wishes me a happy birthday!
saturday was spent shopping! liz and i met at mcalister's for lunch at noon and after lunch headed straight to the mall. we were both in need of something fun to wear to my birthday celebration that night. five hours and about thirty-five (literally) dresses later, we were both equipped with fabulous ensembles for the night's festivities. i got home around 4:30, took some advil for a splitting headache (shopping usually gives me a headache), cleaned the house, and got ready. let me just say, i LOVED my outfit. it was very birthday appropriate. seven of us (a number which dwindled from about twenty) had dinner in downtown greer at a restaurant called bin112. it was GREAT. the food was really good and the atmosphere was fun, too. thanks to everybody who came! liz did a wonderful job surprising me with birthday balloons, a john mayer birthday cake, and JOHN MAYER TICKETS! i have a great best friend. you should be very, very jealous. after dinner we headed up to the bar at bin112 to watch the end of the clemson/carolina game. unfortunately, the tigers were unable to give me a birthday win, but i love them anyway. after drying my eyes from the clemson loss, we headed downtown to meet up with the guys. we hit rey's, on the rocks, dixie's, sharky's, and ended up at conolley's finally. conolley's was probably the most fun, because by the time we finally made it there it was late and a lot of people had cleared out. ten of us sat around and threw darts and laughed hysterically until around three in the morning. liz came back to my house and spent the night, and we ended birthday weekend at newspring sunday morning. my "little sister," sallie, and i had lunch after church, and i spent the rest of the day watching movies and cuddling with the cutest puppy in the entire world. it was a really, REALLY fun weekend, full of surprises. here are a few pictures:
i heard from people i was definitely not planning to hear from on my birthday (thanks, facebook). were it not for facebook, i'm quite confident that a few in particular would not have remembered that it was my birthday. regardless, i appreciate the outpouring of love i received over the weekend.i have a whole lot of thoughts i could start writing about (none of them related to my birthday festivities), but i think i'll save those for when i actually have them sorted out in my head.
have a happy monday, friends!
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