Belated Vday

Here's some fun from our Vday dance photos with Katie and Taylor... they came and crashed our married ward dance with us for about ten minutes of hardcore dancin' and some quick photo ops :).

Too much fun with these two. :)

Birthday & Plans

This weekend I turned the ripe old age of 24! Complete with beautiful flowers in the mail from my fab parents, festivities with my McG grandparents (who both have a birthday within a week of mine), birthday dinner and shopping with my awesome sister, a surprise get-together with some of our friends (thanks to my sweet hubby and awesome friend Janelle for making it a hit!), and an amazing birthday dinner at my in-laws! We only got pictures on my actual birthday at the Perrys, so here's what we've got:

Putting together my favorite dish, pasta primavera :)

Complete with shrimp, carrots, tomatoes, red and yellow peppers, peas, and broccoli! Yum.

It really is a beautiful pasta with all the vibrant colors! Tastes just as good as it looks, if not better.

Jordan also made homemade garlic-rosemary breadsticks which were delicious, but we didn't get a picture. The man is a baking genius though, truly!

The Dessert: Red Velvet Cheesecake

Me and my sis... and my awesome mother-in-law belting The Beatles' "Birthday" song ;)

Delicious!!!

Making my wish :)

Partying it up to The Beatles' "Birthday"

Opening up my darling apron from the Perrys. Handmade by Jolynn!

You can't see all the details, but it's beautifully done and has a real vintage feel to it. Sure makes cooking that much more enjoyable! It's even got two deep pockets where I can stash my iPod-- I always listen to Harry Potter while I cook :).

It was a wonderful birthday, thanks to my wonderful family and friends! :) 

Especially Jordan, who makes everything wonderful. Love that man more every day.

In other news, Jordan got into University of Washington's DPT program this morning! Congratulations to Mr. Smarty-pants, who gets an official pass for the rest of the semester since he got into his top two schools of choice. Course he's too good to actually sluff school and get C's, but I like to keep teasing him that he can ;). Anyway, it is nice to have the grades-pressure off.

This is also awesome because that means we both got into our top programs of choice, bringing the running to UW and USC (Boston is still in the mix, but not really as desirable of a choice). Now we just have to make the deposits for Jordan's programs at each school (ouch! $1500 total, non-refundable! being a grown-up sucks) and wait for me to hear about scholarships (crossing fingers). I should hear if I got an interview for each school around the end of this month or early March, and if I get them then they're both during the last week of March (also when we have our 4th wedding anniversary! annnnd also when the Hunger Games comes out...). So if I get the interviews, I'll hear back about the scholarships in early April, and that's when we'll make our decision! Pretty exciting, but we're glad to have two great options on the west coast in beautiful cities with lots of great assets in each. And I'm glad to be in the best of company as we go forward with this exciting new adventure :).