thank you!

a huge thank you to everyone for all your birthday wishes, phone calls {and not calling me :)}, texts, emails, and letters!  last night i met up with a bunch of dear friends at alcove bakery to celebrate the
big day - delicious food, a beautifully warm night, and lots and lots of laughs!
a pretty great way to welcome in another year.

{my friends tried to steal our table number for me - no. 29 - but it was snatched up before they could swipe it. i love friends who are willing to steal on my behalf.}

i collected a great stack of books that i will donate to milk & bookies, which will then be distributed to kids in my neighborhood.  i am also happy to say, i finally {FINALLY!} got my toms shoes!!  dannon left a shoe-box sized package with my name on it sorta hidden in the house before he went to work.  i held out for a few hours but eventually climbed to the top of the bookshelf and pulled it down.  turns out, it was a decoy! no gift inside.  he knows me all too well.  :) later he handed me the real package with my new toms. as it turns out all the gifts i got are making the world a better place.  thanks to my toms, a kid somewhere out there will now have their own pair of shoes.  also, brandi sent me the most gorgeous earrings from branchbound {i had always drooled over a pair that brandi had from the same shop}.  the lace used to make my earrings was purchased at a fundraiser where all the proceeds went to benefit a homeless animal rescue organization.

hooray!!