A Collection of Notes: "Dark Horse"

You know sometimes it's really hard to believe how old you are when people believe that you are much younger.

I'm not complaining about being perceived as younger as long as they don't equate that to my maturity level.

Like that one time I moved into a new ward and someone asked when I graduated and I said last year and they thought I meant high school.

They were very confused when I told them I had a college degree.

24 seems way less scary than 23. It must be a numbers thing.

This year my birthday landed on Easter. It's only the second time I remember it happening but numerically I'm thinking that it must have happened at least one other time when I was really young.

Anyway, I decided to make my birthday last as long as possible and deemed it Birthday Weekend.

We had beautiful weather on Saturday and had a great BBQ with friends and family. We played Bocce Ball and board games and it was just so nice to be outside!! (We have not been fortunate to have any kind of weather since then)

Then on Sunday we did dinner and cake and Easter egg hunt! Which I have no pictures of because I was too busy looking for my eggs.

A couple weeks before my birthday we were at the store and I saw that they had a Pink velvet cake and I was like that totally going to be my birthday cake. And then I went back again and they had this super hot pink frosting. Naturally they go together. I don't think I will ever have this pink of a cake again in my life. But I am totally up to the challenge :)

Woohoo 24!

So kind of a funny story. This was the end of Kaleen's spring break. Y'all know when Kaleen is around there is no point in sleeping, as had as she tries to go to bed early. So by Sunday afternoon I was really, really sleep deprived. In the process of making my cake I broke a glass measuring cup, broke the cake trying to get it out of the pan and then broke it again when I was trying to frost it. I think there may have been something else happen too, but basically I was a mess. I was totally out of it and not functioning.

So here we are, candles lit and ready to blow those bad boys out and I did, it one breath.

And then someone mentioned about a good birthday wish.

I forgot to make a wish before I blew out my candles.

How does a 24 year old forget to make a wish before blowing out her candles?! As I previously mentioned I was not functioning.

So I had to relight and blow them out. But we decided to just do 1 for the sake of time. Hopefully that doesn't diminish the magically properties of a birthday wish.