Birthday Recap, Saddest B-Day Story Ever & Giveaway Winner

Yesterday was a pretty good day.

I'll let my pictures do the talking..

Slept in, caught up on some reading and enjoyed a cup of joe out of my new adorable cup.

My bestie and I talked on the phone for 2 1/2 hours--we never get to do that!

My husband surprised me with this beautiful bracelet!

And now for the saddest birthday story ever told.. we went to the humane society to find a cat and found this sweet and beautiful girl. She's 8-years-old and her owners both recently passed away; she needs a new home. We filled out the paperwork and later found out our landlord would prefer we didn't get it (he told us we couldn't get a dog but didn't mention a cat). Yes, I teared up a little bit.. I'm a huge sap when it comes to animals so I pray that a nice family adopts her.

Since I'm 23 going on 70, we went out to dinner at 4pm--it was delicious! I had the homemade chicken and noodles and Brandon had chicken fried chicken. Yum!!

My husband surprised me with this true and delicious cake.

And yes folks, that is an ice cream cake..

Overall, it seems like 23 is going to be a pretty good year.. it'll be a cat-less year, but I'll live. I guess. 

I don't want to end this post on a total down note so I'd like to announce the winner of my birthday giveaway...

Congratulations, Karen C.!! 

Have a fun time spending your $80 at Target :D