well i must admit to having a fabulous birthday/july 4th! on friday night, Brandon and i went to see Wicked, the musical. the book is one of my absolute favorites so i was a bit concerned that the show would be quite different than the book, but i was pleasantly surprised. even Brandon was impressed and that is no easy task!! :) he bought me a defy gravity shirt at intermission. the whole evening was wonderful. then saturday morning, Brandon decided to make me breakfast. so we went to the store to get some bananas for walnut banana pancakes. even though he has little to no experience cooking (especially vegan food!) he made some scrumptious pancakes and even used the leftover batter for muffins! his birthday gift to me was paintings of cuppy cakes, including a vegan, princess, 4th of july cuppy cake along with a zombie cuppy cake and a pirate cuppy cake. i also got a magic the gathering pad (yes, im a dork). my mom ordered vegan almond cupcakes from
Muddys Bake Shop, the only place in memphis i know of that makes vegan cakes/cupcakes/goodies. Brandon and I later hung out with Jeff. that's always a good time!
my mom also got me a month unlimited yoga from
Bikram Yoga Memphis. while my sister got me two vegan cookbooks,
The Joy of Vegan Baking and
The Vegan Table.somehow, i managed to brat my way through an entire birthday weekend and sunday we went to Dona's. my mother in law loves me as proven by the fact that she bought two vegan cookbooks in an effort to make me a vegan cake. she baked a Strawberry Cake for me and made me a yummy dinner. :)
she also bought a BYM yoga mat and some
Shakti shorts for class.
really, it was a ridiculously fabulous weekend made very special by everyone involved.
well, we decided as a team, that is licious decided that it would be funny to dress up like 80s hooligans. so we did and i thought it was hilarious. 
