Birthday Part 1 of who knows how many..

I have the most AWESOME friends in the entire world! I probably don't say that enough to them, but for us to be spread out as much as we are, I think we are just about as close as you can get. Ann Taylor is in New York, Caroline is in Atlanta (soon to be California I think) Lindsey is in Texas, Lawren is in Mobile, Ginger and Kelli are in Birmingham and I am in good ol' Decatur. We may go several months without seeing each other, but as soon as we get together, its like we have never been apart. We can all finish each others sentences and always have tons of laughs when we are together. So this year, my fabulous friends decided to throw me a "Happy Birthday Jesus/Anna" celebration which was kind of an improper joke, but we went with it anyway. The weekend started off with me meeting up with Kelli in Birmingham and then us driving down to Mobile. We went to Bellingrath Gardens and looked at all the beautiful lights there and then had a great dinner at this little Italian place. On Saturday, we all got up and went to Foley to do a little damage at the outlet malls, then came home and got ready for our cocktail attire dinner that Lawren and Bret Bret prepared for us. I must say that this was better than anything you could get at a 5 star restaurant...not to mention the table was decorated to the nines!! After that, we went downtown for a little music and then back to the house for a lively game of Tabu which was totally hilarious. On Sunday, we all casually got up and then headed back. All in all, it was an awesome weekend! I love my friends so much and really appreciate them making the effort to come celebrate with me all the way in Mobile. Here are some shots from the weekend...

This is us at Bellingrath Gardens....it is beautiful there...




Kelli and Lawren blowing out the candle...


Kelli pushing down the Washington monument..






Breakfast the next morning...we were a little late, they had already started serving lunch, but they found us some bagels...


Outlet shopping...with the loudest child I have ever heard screaming...it would have woken up the dead...


Oh, one thing I forgot to mention in the photo above is the lady in the background drinking a beer...and quite a tall beer....her entire table was drinking at the outlet malls at 11:00 a.m....hello, go to an "AA" meeting. :)



Bret Bret, our fearless chef, that stayed behind and cooked all day for us while we were out shopping...he probably was glad to have a little peace while 6 girls were out of his house!!


Kelli had been doing makeup on the trip for everyone else, so I had her do mine for this night...this is a shot with all of us but Lawren and Ginger...


My delicious cake with FUDGE icing!!!


The lovely table..


Our host and hostess...they were wonderful!!


We had these little party favor things that would pop when you pulled them apart and they had little surprises in them and you had to put on whatever was in your part...all of us got hats, but Kelli had an eyepatch as well. HILARIOUS!!


I do not have a picture of this, but I would like to make a statement....when we went downtown to this dueling piano place, we sat next to this older couple who seemed okay when we first sat down (besides the fact that she was blowing cigarette smoke in our face), before we know it, this lady is sitting on top of the table and dancing in a not nice way on her date/baby daddy, we were not really sure. Just a note to everyone out there reading this....there is absolutely NO circumstance or age where it is appropriate for you to get up on the table in a public place for any reason and try to seduce your man....I don't care how cute you think you are...everyone looking at you thinks you are in idiot. :)

Thanks again girls for a WONDERFUL birthday!!