Well, in light of my recent promise to post more photos (and take more photos), here are some pictures and a recap of my 21st birthday in FSJ - sorry it’s a month late!
I never really told you guys about this one, but basically we had a big BBQ at my mom’s house. Mostly family was there and a few friends came over, too!
So, the funny part of this story is that a few weeks before my birthday I told Eric that ALL I wanted him to do for my birthday was surprise me with something fun. Because I usually do all the planning in our relationship, I wanted to be surprised. Well, after saying that I kind of forgot about it, so I was given a pleasant surprise on my birthday when I was told that Eric had organized a SCAVENGER HUNT for me and my family/friends, and I would get the pleasure of wearing this:
We split into teams of three and off we went, we had one hour to get as many things on the list as we could! The scavenger hunt had us going around town doing silly things, like putting 0.89 worth of gas into our vehicle and getting a receipt, taking a photo of all three of us drinking out of one drink, getting a dessert with a candle in it etc.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of MY team because they were all taken on my friend Keatons camera, but Eric had my camera and he was paired with my grandma and Fred, my aunt’s fiancee. Here’s some of their pictures.
All three of them sharing a drink. I find this picture quite hilarious:
When the hour was up we all raced back to the house to tally our points and my team came in dead last. We tried, though and suprisingly enough it ended up being really, really fun! No-one in my family ever shy’s away from competition so we were all being really competitive about beating the other team!
Once we returned we settled in for some BBQ’ed cuisine and a delicious chocolate cake made for me by my aunt:
And then proceeded to play Rock Band for the rest of the night. Apparently I’m a terrible singer who can’t carry a tune so I was getting lots of groans from the crowd during that. Here’s one of me and my mom singing:
Even Murphy and Webster participated in the birthday fun!
Overall, it was a great birthday with family and friends. And even though I was cursing Eric for planning the scavenger hunt when he first announced it I ended up having a great time!
I’d also like to wish a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the lovely Nora from Walking through the Rain - it was her birthday yesterday and she wrote a very fun, insightful birthday post so go check it out and wish her a Happy Birthday!
PS: I recently imported all of my old archives from my blogspot blog to this blog, so take a look through my archives if your new to the blog and want to learn more about me! Also, does anybody know if it’s OK for me to delete my old blog now that all the posts are transferred over, or will that screw with the archives on this blog?
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Amber these pictures are great! And your cake looked delicious - sounds like an awesome birthday all around!
That’s a great idea - to do a scavenger hunt - I wonder if I could get my family to do one of those…
That scavenger hunt looks like a blast. We did one for my gramz’ 90th birthday it was crazy. so cheers to eric! he did awesome!
Awww that looks like SO MUCH FUN!
Ah, scavenger hunts like that are so much fun! I havent done one of those in eons. It looks like a good time though. Rockband is so much fun. My friends and I get together to play it on the weekends, make various types of food, drink lots of wine. Its a fun time!
looks like a fun time with the scavenger hunt!
Scavenger hunts are so much fun, what a great way to celebrate your birthday!
I still have the pictures from our teams scavenger hunt on my camera! Unfortunately I have misplaced my camera cord at the moment, but I am in the process of tearing my room apart to find it! As soon as it re-appears, I will email our teams pictures to you!
hahah these photos are great. loving that fierce outfit!
happy birthday
LOVE the pictures!!! And a scavenger hunt… what a great idea!!! (must remember to do that one day!!). Oh, and btw… you look STUNNING in all your pics! Seriously, you could totally be a model
I love the one where you’re singing with your mom!!
Aw, thanks so much for the birthday shout out! You’re such a sweetheart.
That chocolate cake looks AMAZING and I could definitely go for some of that right about now =)
I haven’t been on a scavenger hunt since high school but they really can be a ton of fun. Eric’s such a sweetie!
Love the pics - looks like you had a great birthday
I imported my files from typepad to WP and then deleted the typepad account and the problem I had? I forgot to move my image files, so I had a ton of broken images in wp, though all the posts/comments were otherwise intact!
your birthday looks & sounds like it was a ton of fun!
love all the pictures, and props to eric for organizing the scavanger hunt! =)
Murphy is the most beautiful dog I have ever seen!!!!!!
It looks like you had so much fun! I can’t wait until my 21st birthday. Also, the cake is so cute with the flowers.
That sounds like so much fun!
You should be able to delete your old blog if all of the posts are transferred to this one.
Looks like you had a great time! Sometimes simple birthdays are the best ones.
bahahaha, im laughing out loud at this post!
Happy birthday again, almost one month later!
And I have no idea if deleting your old entries would mess up your archives. But maybe you could just make the blog private? Then no one else would be able to find it.
That was great of Eric to plan that. Very clever! Quite the catch! You look great in those pics!
You are positively the most adorable thing on this earth.
Love the doggie with the MLP party hat!
Amber it was great to see you during your hunt,even if only for a minute. Spending a few hours with Eric in the shop(alot of fun). Just thought I’d say this is awesome and that I will be checking it out often.