This past Saturday, I had a few friends over to celebrate my birthday. It was completely inspired from attending this birthday party in 2011. I knew I wanted it to be just girls, that perhaps we'd do a craft, eat good food, and that we'd laugh. John set it up, sent out the invitations, and wa-la!
These lovely ladies you are looking at are some of my dearest friends in Knoxville to date. They have been such a source of comfort while we try to make a home here.
This is the craft that we made....at least one of them. Buttons sewn (then glued) on bobby pins. Seems simple enough but somehow I had to ask for Hope's help on more than one occasion. (Hope is an art teacher and craft extraordinaire, top right)
Magpies "chocolate peanut butter pie" was my birthday cake choice. de-lish.
John came up with "ice-breaker" questions and cut them all in slivers and put them in this bowl. I have to give him full credit for it. The range of topics was stellar. Questions like.... "Pick a nationality that best describes your personality type" and "What is your favorite teacher story?" Our favorite (that we didn't actually answer) was "The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, Roman, or an empire. Discuss." nice.
This birthday might go down as one of the better birthdays of my lifetime. When you move to a new city, the time period where you don't know many people but are trying to establish friendships is, quite honestly, painful. I've done it more than enough the past two years. Celebrating this birthday was also a celebration of being past that stage!!! I have friends here that I can call on and share my heart with. and that's good news, folks.
What a wonderfully fun way to celebrate your birthday, Briana:) I hope those girls made you feel like the gem that you are! I'll be calling you to wish you a belated Happy Birthday (Facebook was really helpful for reminding me of birthdays...sigh...).
ReplyDeleteWhat a man, John Pitt, to do this for your wife!!! Thank you for blessing her real good!!!
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