A 23rd Birthday in Pictures

Belated Birthday Present from LaLaLaurynnn

My friend Lauryn, aka Lalalaurynnn, has been assuring me that my birthday present is on the way, and I kept forgetting about it, but it finally came, and I LOVE IT! She is so cute... she custom ordered me a necklace from Sparkle Peach's Etsy. All I can say is, it was absolutely perfect for a 21st birthday present. I'll leave the rest up to pictures.

Now go check out Sparkle Peach's Etsy, because everything in it is SO cute!!!

Picture Post- Bloomington Bars meet 21 Year Old Alex.

Well, last night was just as good as I had expected it to be. I have some amazing friends that made the night absolutely wonderful. AND I DIDN'T LOSE OR BREAK ANYTHING! Great success, if you ask me. I was feeling it this morning, but I'm absolutely fine now aside from being pretty tired. Think I may try to sneak in a nap before dinner at SUSHI BAR! Kelly, being the wonderful roommate she is, made me cinnamon rolls this morning and added the "hair of the dog that bit you" remedy by making a round of lemon drops. Haha. So here is a recap of pictures. I thought that would be best.

(Birthday outfit! Ended up trading the glad's in favor of flats... probably wise on my part)

(Nick's at Midnight!)

(The whole gang at The Vid... Pineapple Upside Down shots!)

(Sink the Biz at Nick's)

(Dancing on the booth at Kilroy's to TRICKY!)

(My AMF- Adios, indeed.)

Made it out alive! Hooray. Now let's hope I can say the same for Vegas.

***Disclaimer: I'm fully aware most posts resulting from this week and next (Little 500. World's Greatest College WEEK. Period.) are going to make me look like a raging alcoholic. I promise I'm a fully functioning responsible citizen most of the year... and now a legal one too! ;-)

Birthday With the Family!

From the time this posts, I will have exactly 12 hours until I am 21, and hence a member of the legal drinking world. THANK GOD. I've been waiting for this since I was 4 years old and running to grab my dad a beer when he got home and looked like he'd had a hard day at work, or when I was 12 and drinking Shirley Temples, or 15 and drinking sparkling grape juice out of champagne flutes at Thanksgiving. Bare with me, this may be a long one. Feel free to skip through the pictures.

(Forever 21 Dress, Old Navy Cardigan, Steve Madden Taylas)

So first, here are me and the beautiful mother and father of mine who brought me into this world 21 years ago:

Over the weekend I went out to dinner with my family at Bonefish Grill.... YUM! That means delicious steak and even more delicious BANG BANG SHRIMP. One of my favorites, of all time. They also brought these cute little chocolate-covered strawberries with a candle in the whipped cream, which was nice since we had cake waiting at home!!!


That cake I speak of? Strawberry cake with Cream Cheese frosting from Donut Bank in Evansville/Newburgh, IN. SO GOOD. Almost TOO sweet, you can only eat a little bit!!! My mom even picked out that cute martini design for the top.


Then it was time to teach my 17 year old brother how to be my new bartender (See here), since this was typically my job when my dad was entertaining friends. Now that I'm legal, his turn to take the reins. Also time for presents!!!

My parents gave me the Kathy Griffin book (!!!!! LOVE HER!!!) and two Lolita martini glasses: '21' and 'Celebration'. I also got two really cute bracelets (The green one in this picture below). Well, plus the new phone: a Blackberry Bold which I am now IN LOVE WITH and desperately needed (but that was free through my dad's office, and he and my brother both got phones too, so it wasn't so much a present, specifically). The main present is the trip to Vegas this coming weekend, which is probably the best present I could EVER ask for.



THIS picture is from today when my roommate Kelly was going through my closets planning outfits for me for tomorrow night/the weekend in Vegas. I haven't seen her much lately thanks to school/traveling, and I MISS HER! But I'm excited for all these outfits. ;-) You'll have to stay tuned in to see which one makes it out tomorrow night!


So, as my Marketing Research professor says, so long for now. I'll try to bring myself to recap tonight with what I can only imagine will be a very hungover post tomorrow. (My bar guide for the night, Annissa, wants to end the night at a bar called The Upstairs that serves a drink called the 'AMF'.... Adios MotherF*&*%#... I'm sure that will do me in if the rest of the night doesn't.) And you can be damn sure that next week will bring a FABULOUS Vegas update with lots of good outfits.

(And again again thanks so much to everyone who's been visiting/commenting lately! You guys always are so sweet and I love hearing your stories about things too!!!!)

5 seconds for a breath!

Thanks so much to everyone who has been commenting lately- I've been busy busy busy and haven't had time to respond or read everyone's blogs the last few days, but I'll catch up soon!!

The weekend at home was fantastic. Dinner with the family for my birthday, and then it was my little brother's first prom so of course I paparazzi'ed it up for that. Also got to see a few friends I haven't seen in a while, or don't get to see nearly enough!!! So here are a few pictures to catch up from the weekend. I'll try to do a more inclusive post tomorrow, if I have time. It's another busy week at the Kelley School of Business.

Me and Penske, the Other Birthday Girl! (Both April 14th!!!)

Cosmo Training for the Newest Bartender of the House.

Dane's Prom Group.

Dane and His Date, Chelsea. (Of course he borrowed Dad's car)

The Hoover Children at Their Finest.

Best Friend, Steven.

Picture Post- Nostalgia

My darling roommate Kelly did a picture post in honor of IU's 190th birthday, which obviously made me get all nostalgic and want to add some sloppy pictures of my own. So I hope you enjoy. And afterward, go check her out at Sew Me Some Love.

All I know is this is from an album titled "Silver Flip Flops", and I don't have any of those, so I must have lost them that night. AND... I guess someone made me try something sour.

JAGAAABOMBS! JAGABOMBSSS! (Not Right Now, I'm in the F*in Zone!)

Russian Spy Night... because we all gave each other Russian nicknames and took walkie talkies with us to the party.

The night Gil's poor car got towed.

Little Five 2009- Block party.

Little Five 2009- Cowboys and Indians.

Ball State Tailgate- Papa Hoov and the girls.

Little Five 2008- Ying Yang, BOOP!

Purdue tailgate freshman year.

IU!

Saki bombing at Japonee freshman year.

House party with the entirety of our freshman year floor.

Michigan State game freshman year- floor seats, Heaven and Hell themed costumes, WE WON!