Well… This year was probably the best christmas/birthday in a very very long time! READ ON!

It was the first year since we moved up to East Texas that the family has been together for the holidays. My grandmother and cousin came up from Corpus Christi, and my Aunt and other cousin came down from Arlington, also my uncle from Louisiana. We had the usual family together again. I say usual because the rest of my family is in Michigan and Spain. But this little group is the group that always used to get together for the Holidays, back when I lived in Corpus Christi as well. I got a lot of great presents, sure, but the greatest gift was that which I just described. I kind of lost that feeling in the past few years because our holidays were so small, just my immediate family.  This definitely made me happy!

Now for my Birthday!! My birthday is today (December 27th). However, the celebrations kind of started a day early when two of my very best friends from Panola College in Carthage Levi and Michelle, surprised me when they called me to ask what the weather was like and made me walk outside to see them sitting in the drive way! We went to Lookout Mountain and saw the pretty landscape and rolling hills of East Texas. They then took me to the Olive Garden for a early birthday dinner, that dinner was a blast for reasons I’m not going to state in this blog… We headed back over to my house and waited for the movie Sherlock Holmes. When we got back my iPhone was blown up with texts of all different people wanting me to go to the very same movie my family was planning on going to! It was strange! We got to the movie theater and I found my sister going to the same exact movie! Wow! By the time all the friends started showing up there was Byron, Jennafer, Michelle, Levi, Me, Dustin, Mallorie, Matt, John Paul, Maria, and Chrissy. We took up an entire row in the movie theater. Levi, who doesn’t know anyone looks over and sees all of us sitting the exact same way, that was cool. After the movies, 7 of us decide to go to the local Applebee’s. I only had some dessert, as did a couple others. The funny thing was that Byron told the waiter that it was my birthday the next day and they should sing to me. Turns out that they forgot. So before we left, the entire table sang at the top of their lungs, getting the entire restaurants attention. After they finished there was an applaud from everywhere. It was nice. It made my whole year!

On the actual day of my birth, I ate breakfast with family, and just stayed home with them. We ended up going to Tyler and ate at TGI Fridays, for my third “birthday” meal. It was grand. The thing that made my night was when I come home and open up my MacBook, log onto facebook and find 25 wall posts wishing me a happy birthday…

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I responded to every one of them! They all really meant a lot and it was just the thing I needed to top of this whole birthday thing! I LOVE ALL YOU GUYS! And for the ones I haven’t seen in a while I miss All of you!!!.

This was a very very special birthday. It was all because of my friends and family that made it so special!

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Happy Points for Jeremy!!