welcome baby mikayla!

when i checked my e-mail tonight, i was suprised by this:

my friend andrea had her daughter mikayla (i think today). she has red hair and is supposedly brillant (according to papa). now i can get her prezzies and hopefully see her soon! and since her birthday is only five days after mine, i'm more likely to remember it, which means even more prezzies!

another year older

it was my birthday on friday and now i am 26. i got e-cards from catherine, bridget, mamsis and eli. josh made me breakfast before i had to go to work. one of the interns made me a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. it was very delicious. since i had to work until ten, we had my celebration last night. josh made me this for dinner:
stuffed mushrooms, grilled lobster tails, salad, garlic bread and italian roasted potatoes, with strawberry pomegrante italian soda. everything was delicious. the salad tongs were from rachel (along with a most desired salt pig). josh got me an ipod and bridget got me a necklace from ireland. after prezzies, we had dessert

OOOOIIINNKK!!!

jennifer invited me to got see her brother show his pigs at the fair, and since i haven't been to a fair in a while, i went. the buildings were all really big and they looked fairly new, but there were only four horses, and about twenty cows. i had a good time, but there was no elephant ears or lemon shake-ups and i actually missed benton county's fair. the pig judge took forever, he had to explain why he chose each pig's placement. i think he was a little biased, because he kept putting jennifer's brother in third, and the same kid in first. jennifer said that the pig breeders get into fist fights over who's pigs are better.
i'm going to try to go down to the state fair with her in september, so maybe i'll get my elephant ears down there.