Birthday Fun

This last Saturday was my 22nd birthday.  Jared and I had a blast!  I was thinking that my birthday would consist of sleeping in since it was a Saturday morning..but on Friday night Jared told me to make sure I was ready to head out the door by 10!!!  On a Satuday!! Lol...it wasn't bad at all though.  Usually I'd like to sleep in until 9 on the weekends, but end up waking up at 7:30 each time.  So there was plenty of time to go for a nice long jog and to get ready.  First we went out to lunch at a place called Sweet Tomatoes in Midvale Utah..not too far from SLC.  Following that, we needed to take a retreat to one of Jared's favorite places..the Nickle Nickle Ardcade :)  He's such a little boy, and I love it!  There was this one game where we both had to hop onto these plastic horses and we raced each other to the finish line...and oh man...I got my work out for the day..lol.  Then after all of the nickles ran out...he decided to take me shopping at the South Jordan mall.  It was a lot of fun!!  The mall we have here in Cache Valley is fun too, but it's like a dinky strip mall...and this was the size of the South Coast Plaza that we used to go to when we were living down in Cali.  So I picked AE to shop at...and spent all of my birthday money there.  They had a lot of good sales and deals!  I'm a girl who loves a good bargain.  Following that, we both really wanted to see Wolverine since it just came out last week and we had heard it was amazing...and it was!  We went to the Megaplex theatre...it was nice because we were able to buy our tickets ahead of time and it was assigned seating, so no one was stressing out to find their seats.  I thought it was pretty cool that a machine, instead of those people at the ticket box, spit out our tickets!  Modern technology these days is fantastic!!  So those of you that like action and excitement...go see Wolverine!  It's awesome!  After the movie let out at around 8 o'clock we headed down to this sweet restaurant called "The Mayan Adventure."  The details of that place are a lot like stepping into the "Rainforrest Cafe,"  mixed with a little of Indiana Jones.  We loved it, and filled ourselves up to the core!!  Luckily I didn't split my pants like I did last time we went there, before Jared left for his mission...haha..that's another story.  It was a fun-filled day though!  I'm thankful to have such an amazing husband.

Then on Sunday, after stake conference we had a combined birthday party celebration for my little niece and I.  She's such a cutie!  I can't believe how much she has grown..  on wednesday Melody will be 5 years old :)  She called me on Saturday to sing to me, and asked how old I was going to be, so I told her..and it was soo funny and way cute.  She just told me "wow aunt Kimmy, your a lot of years old!"  I love my nieces and nephews they make me laugh.  So anyways, we had a little luau themed party and the whole family was over.  We had a blast!!  We blew out our candles on our cake and ate until our tummies were full.  My older sister thought it would be cute for me to wear a grass skirt and a little flower (instead of coconut) bra...lol.  I just love her to pieces.  I'm so thankful for an amazing family also.  I don't know where I'd be without them!