birthday extravaganza!

my birthday this year was the greatest birthday. on thursday, i woke up to a sign gabrielle made that said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESSICA" in colors that were so close to being painful that they were beautiful! and a bottle of wine that laura suggested i have for breakfast! and balloons! and magic! dad took me, laura, and gabrielle to dinner that night, which was delicious. then we came home and dana came over with cupcakes. i blew out some candles and we sat down to a casual game of taboo. i took friday off work, which proved to be unnecessary but relaxing and productive. that was also the day devan arrived! she, gabrielle, and i went to dinner (the yummy eggplant was not yummy!), bought ice cream novelties, and watched st. elmo's fire. we were too tired to go anywhere, which felt just like 207 cary street. saturday was the big day. i went to target to gather supplies (by which i mean balloons). we spent most of the afternoon/evening getting snacks/beverages for the party, blowing up balloons, eating pizza, putting pictures of me on the walls, and making a playlist. charlotte and her sister and brother-in-law were our first guests. it was a night of dancing in balloons and me being so happy and a cake that was really just a block of cheese with candles in it and hugging and the greatest of times (for me anyway). hayley got me a book that came with watercolor paints and brandon got me the best good joke book and alec got me pictures in frames and came in a purple cardigan in my honor and dana wore the dress that we both have and gabrielle and devan both captured different aspects of my wardrobe and oh how great it all was. i had a wonderful birthday! we ventured to the rock and roll hotel late night and came home to finish some treats and do some preliminary tidying. sunday was a day to recuperate from so much activity. devan, gabrielle, and i made breakfast which we ate while we watched jesus christ superstar, and we spent the bulk of the day watching almost the entirety of the america's next top model marathon in our pajamas.

you know how sometimes you're so happy you just don't know how to express it? it was like several days of that! if these good feelings keep coming like this, i might explode!