The big 23!

This year my birthday fell on the most inopportune day. First of all it was on a Sunday so we planned to go out to dinner on Saturday but almost all of my friends were busy and second it was the weekend before finals so everyone was studying. So instead of having no party I ended up with 2 parties.

Lauren, my brother's girlfriend, has the same birthday as me so we went to cheesecake factory on Saturday night together to celebrate!

On my acutal birthday (Sunday) Russ made me pancakes. This is sort of a big deal because I have never seen him cook anything other than Ramen noodles or Hamburger Helper.

After finals were over a couple of my friends from school took me out to California Pizza Kitchen.

And Katie made me the most delicious cake...mmm!