Thank you to those of you who wished me happy birthday via twitter yesterday 🙂 So sweet!!
My breakfast revolved around a little jar I went through too fast.
Perfect birthday breakfast!
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1/3 cup oats + 1/3 cup wheat bran + 1 cup water
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1 egg
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Cinnamon & maple syrup
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Dark chocolate dreams (on top)
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Nature’s Path granola
Oatmeal, you never fail me.
The rest of my day I did a little weights, stretching and foam rolling. Relaxing. Lying in the sun. Then lunch.
I topped my last French Meadow Bakery sprouted tortilla with about 1 1/2 servings of ground turkey, 1 cooked egg, FF sour cream, and salsa fresca (Santa Barbara brand from Costco).
I really only like these tortillas when heated or cooked. I heated up my tortilla on the stove. I have a gas burner, so I just lay it on one of the burners for about 10 seconds, then carefully grab and flip it. It heats it up and makes it slightly crunchy!
I love the chewiness of these tortillas once heated.
Yumm!! I had lots of leftover filling (but no more tortillas 😦 ) so I combined it all in a bowl to eat the rest 🙂
Afternoon snack of an apple and my free Starbucks half-caff coffee!
Then came home to get ready for my roommate birthday night. I kept dinner pretty light because we were getting dessert at around 7:30.
Repeat picture!! I wolfed down my dinner quickly, but it looked like this – only a few less pancaked. I made a slightly smaller batch of these “pancakes”.
We then got dressed and headed to the Madonna Inn for dessert! I don’t have those pictures yet (on my roommate’s camera), so I’ll have to recap that part of the night tomorrow 🙂
Tonight is part 2 of celebrating. My friend’s birthday is today, and since mine was yesterday, we’re doing a joint party tonight. And then heading out on the town! I’m still not 100% positive on what dress I’m choosing, but you’ll find out tomorrow! 😉
And now, in the spirit of yesterday and tonight, I thought I’d do a birthday edition Flashback Friday. I only have back to year 2003 on this computer. But I wanted to show you how into birthday parties my mom would always get. We would do huge theme parties when we were younger, and she would make the most creative cakes! Examples of my younger sister’s cakes, which I have on my computer. (Her birthday is in August, so they’re mostly pool themed 😉 )
Unfortunately that’s all I have on here, but she could get pretty intense!
In 2003, we went to a Giant’s game.
My 18th birthday in 2005:
Baskin Robbins ice cream cake = best. thing. ever.
It’s a tradition in our family that my dad would always come home from work with a bouquet of flowers for the birthday kid!
Freshman year, my mom and sister stopped by during a college roadtrip. They made me mini-polar bear cakes!
Then the night before my birthday, my roommate and friends completely ambushed and blindfolded me, then surprised me at the beach!
We had cake (Snickers flavor – one of the best cakes I’ve ever had)
Dared to eat the last piece in one bite
Played football and then ran into the water!
Love my fish faced roommies!
On my actual birthday, we spent the day at the beach.
Titanic!
Then went to dinner at a local Mexican place.
So full after dinner and birthday treats, I said I couldn’t move to my bed. Next thing I knew the entire couch was being lifted to transport me. LOL
Flowers sent by my parents 🙂
Sophomore year, my 2 roommates said to get dressed up.
Then they took me on a “shot scavenger hunt”!
We hit up two of our friends places where they were having parties, and took a shot at each location 😉
The next day I hungoverly drove home to celebrate my birthday with my family.
Junior year was my 21st!! And honestly, probably one of my least exciting birthdays ever 😉 I celebrated with my family a few weeks early over my spring break.
We got catering from Chevy’s!
My mom spent years and years working on a scrapbook for my 21st birthday present (she’s doing it for every kid). I was completely floored!
My sister painted me a mug – you might have seen this periodically on the blog 😉
Copied from a painting we saw in Paris. This girl is freakin’ talented!
With a beautiful quote on the back 🙂
I had a midterm the day of and the day after my actual birthday, so I couldn’t go out to the bars as a new “21-year old” either night. I was also on campus until from 7:40 am-10:15 pm the day of my birthday!
Flowers from my parents:
And my best friends from home sent me a flower cake bouquet!! I almost cried when I got it 😀
My 22nd birthday wasn’t super exciting either. Dinner and cake with the roommates!
And my flowers 😀
Can you tell I tend to like the pink, orange and yellow roses? 😉
Hope you all are enjoying your Friday!! And I’ll be back tomorrow with tonight’s recap!! 😀
awww happy birthday! i love the flashback. looks like youve had some pretty great birthdays 🙂
Is it too late to wish you a happy birthday? Those are some great memories. I love my birthdays….mine was next weekend 🙂 I can’t wait!
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Happy belated birthday!! I loved looking at your flashback photos. That bouquet cake is gorgeous!
Ahhhh I HOPE YOU HAD THE BEST BDAY EVER!!!! Can’t wait for the fierce photos! xoxoxox
GREAT flashback! loved it! those polar bear cakes are the best ever! hope your bday was all you hoped for and more. love you!