Birthday

So I've never been too big of a fan of birthdays. It's just one more day to become a year older and remind myself of all the stuff that I wanted to do by the time I reached that age. Plus being away at school birthday's have been an extra bummer because I've always had like class or some homework or something to do...this year, however, was a little different. There's something about turning 21 that changes everything. Yes, it still has that depressing feel "I'm 21 and I still haven't _____ (fill in the blank)" But then again turning 21 is a HUGE milstone in your life. For example you can buy alcohol, go gambling, and buy a gun! I mean who DOESN'T want to turn 21 just because of all those options? (chuckle) Along with those great opportunities, turning 21 means that you completely do not need your parents anymore. I mean you can do anything now that you want, rent a hotel by yourself, get a loan, buy or rent an appartment. 21 is a big deal..if it hasn't hit you that your a grown up before, then the day you turn 21 (or the day after when you sober for all of you who decide to get smashed on your birthday) it will hit you, your a grown up!

So this year to celebrate the big day, I slept in! My birthday feel on a Monday, which for everyone else is a day of classes, but for nursing students it is a day for clinicals for Pediatrics or OB. I got lucky and on February 16th, I did not have clinical so I slept in. I was then going to go work out but I thought, "It's my birthday, I don't want to" so I proceeded to get ready. Now even though I did not have clinical or class my 4 other roommates had clinical, and my sister had class. But luckily she had a long break so we went out to lunch on mom to McAdo's. Neither of us had ever been there so we decided to try it out. It was pretty good, but O'Charlies is still our favorite. We then went to Cold stone on dad and got some ice cream to go since we were still full from lunch. I then took her back to her dorm so she could do homework before her next class. I went home. As I walked in my door, my roommate who was now home from clinical, came running down the stairs yelling "Happy Birthday!" She had bough me balloons, a teddy bear, and reeses pieces! We chated for a bit and I walked up to my room and was greeted by this:

She's such a sweet heart! We then studied on the couches for the next 5 hours. During that time she had asked me for my lighter because she "had to fix her sweat shirt strings" I told her where it was and she came back with a lit birthday cake and sang Happy Birthday to me! She then left and my other roommate came home and her and I went over to her boyfriends house to watch TV and hang out with him and his roommates. Overall the day was special even though I studied OB all day!

Earlier that week my sister was instructed to get me flowers from my father. These are the ones I picked out:

I like them a lot..I'm a huge sucker for flowers! The partying hasn't stoped yet though. Yesterday was my roommates Leigh's birthday and on the 2nd of February was my roommates Candice's birthday so this weekend we are throwing a joint b-day party for all of us! We are each having our own cake too! I have never had so much cake before in my life!

So overall my 21st birthday was still depressing, but I enjoyed it a lot! God really has blessed my life and I still have a lot of life to live (hopefully). He's definitly done great things for me and has put so many precious and wonderful people in my life and I thank him for that! We will see what this year of life has in store!

P.S. an update on the whole missions thing. I am not going to go to Thailand, my heart is just not in this trip, although it would be wonderful and it is a great trip, it's not the one for me. I have found another trip to Africa with World Ventures that is the perfect trip (in my mind at least), I am just waiting to hear back from them. It's funny but I never had a desire to go to Africa and God is opening up all these doors for me to go!

P.S.S. I've had a brief change of plans for after college. I am praying about possibly going straight into ministry and working with an orphange somewhere. The group Children of the World that is affiliated with World Help came (look them up online they are amazing!) and I just think it would be so much fun and it's always been my dream so why not, I'm only 21 right!