:birthday weekend:

the monday and tuesday after my birthday jordan was doing some recruiting at the U for newmont, so we left friday morning and spent the whole weekend in salt lake! it was delightful

we walked in to these cutest and most festive decorations! i'm serious. my mom makes birthdays the best.

it doesn't feel like a birthday unless there are decorations and banners. and she always makes a cake.

even if it's chocolate and she can't eat it! and she let me decorate it, cause that's all i wanted.

we tried melting white chocolate. but i suck at melting chocolate...
but mama had pearls! so we combined our efforts and filled the letters. and it was the best.

and before it was even my birthday, i had all these presents..! talk about lucky.

jordo joined us and we had dinner at sweet tomatoes-- another prestwich tradition

birthday morning i woke up to a couple treasures and opened my cards..! and everyone left... hahaha
so i was on my own for a couple hours while jordan worked out, my mom went to class, dad was at work and kate at school... so i walked to the neighbor's yard sale.

after jordan got home, we went up to salt lake to visit our friends we miss so much!

we spent an hour with the jenkins', and their cute dog macey, boys sam and lars. and all of ashton's clothes after cleaning out her closet! they are the sweetest. and the best. man we miss being able to hang out with them.

we also got to see jordan's best friend and their sweet little boy..! he had just woken up from his nap, but sure let me put cars on his head... ha!

we drove cars and chatted about life.

and holy cow, talk about precious...!

on our way home we stopped by jordo's new digs. they just happen to have a rock wall in a storage room. you best believe we took advantage of it

all i wanted for my birthday was to play games! so we all sat down and played cranium for hours!

look at that kids face. ha! i love him.

he also shot a tiny ball of playdough into jordan's mouth as a joke. except they actually made it! so sick.

and this happened. with all the dollar bills... ha! i have no idea where the money came from.

but i had a lovely birthday. thanks family, for spending time with me. :)