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Today I'm wishing the happiest of birthdays to my favorite set of quadruplets, my roommate Katherine and her 3 womb-mates! (You can also check out her sister Quinn's blog here.) We're going out to celebrate for dinner with pizza and dessert in Brooklyn, and I'm only wishing that the three other siblings could join, too. Maybe next year we'll get them all here in the Big Apple for the occasion.

Also, it's my older brother Brent's birthday today!

[It must be a good day for birthdays. I think so.]

10 years ago today

This little one was born! I was holding my very first niece for the very first time. It seems like yesterday... Where have those years gone?!

























I called Mayce today to tell her Happy Birthday! We chatted for a nice 25 minutes or so and caught up on 3rd grade and birthday parties and stuff. I reminisced about the day she was born and how her dad brought her into the waiting room to say "It's a Girl!" and how I was the only girl in the ninth grade that had a niece. Then she sighed and said, "I can't believe it's only 3 three years until I'm a teenager. I better enjoy these last years, while I can, of being a child."

Did I mention she's 10 but going on 25?! Happy happy birthday Mayce!!

happy birthday to this girl


Rose Lynn is turning the big 2-5 today. A quarter of a century. But even more exciting than that, she just wrapped up a seven year stint of college on the plains! RL is the smartest chem student I know, and she's putting that brain to good use. In fact, in a few weeks I'm going to have to start calling her Dr. Farmer. Rose finished up her last rotation of pharmacy school today, and I couldn't be more excited for her!! And now, because of it, she gets the pleasure of answering my medical questions at least once a week when I'm trying to avoid going to see a doctor. Thanks for all your help, RL! Happy birthday. Happy graduation. And be thankful that you won't be the newest pharmacist at CVS in NYC, for your own sake (and my detriment...)!

happy 4th birthday abbey!!

I can't believe my little Abigail is turning FOUR today! It seems like just yesterday we were waiting for her to be born, and then holding her and swooning over her in the hospital all weekend. For her special day (since I can't see her), I took this picture for her to have especially on her 4th birthday. Afterall, I am her "favorite aunt"...and if you don't believe me, just revert back to this picture last summer at the beach. Nonetheless, I know that she loves rainbows and "poke quats", so I hope this birthday post makes her day just a little bit happier!

happy birthday to you!

The one thing I didn't mention (since it was a surprise for GG!) in my last post about the wedding this weekend is that I was planning in a small pitstop in Tuscaloosa for the day on Friday to celebrate GGMaw's 85th birthday. Happy happy birthday GGMaw!!! I'm so glad I got to enjoy lunch with you and your special day!

25 and 88

As you saw in my post a couple weeks ago, my granddad and I celebrated big for our 25th and 88th birthdays! Pizza party lunch, ice cream cake, and being together when we're usually thousands of miles apart! It doesn't get much better than that! And, I even got a special treat: beautiful flowers delivered all the way from NYC! Thanks b-stud!

birthday partaaay

I have the best and most gracious friends in the world. And this year for my birthday, they blew me away again! I got to choose the venue in which to celebrate: so I picked, crafts. We went to the Little Shop of Crafts on the upper west side and painted pottery to roll in my big 2-5. I painted a bright rainbow polka dotted mug that is big enough to fit 7 cups of coffee to wake me up every morning...just what I need! We had rainbow cake, ice cream cone cupcakes (complete with trick candles), guacamole, punch...and everything else that is so quintessential Perryn. I couldn't ask for friends that know me any better or for a better way to celebrate my day! Thanks to everyone for all the love (these girls have blogs to call out: Maggie, LA, Pamela, Bethany, and Katherine, and of course those without blogs, too: Ann-Marie, Victoria, Michelle, and Megan) who did so much to make me feel so special...and colorful!





25 years of celebrations

I was born three weeks early, so my granddad had no inclination to expect he would have a granddaughter for a birthday present since my mom was due mid-December. In fact, the night I was born, it took my dad a few hours to get in touch with my grandparents to tell them I had been born! But ever since, we've been having big celebrations every year. Since this was the "25th Anniversary" of our celebrations together, I decided to pull out all the pictures of our birthdays over the past 25 years. I was partially successful... there were only 13 years missing out of the 25. My mom is still apologizing profusely (since she found pictures from every year of my oldest brother's birthdays), but being the youngest child of 4, I think having 12 years worth of birthday pictures is still pretty good. And you'll still get the idea:

1985
1986
1987
1990
1992
1999
2000
2002
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010, still going strong...

the birthday boy

Saturday was Brendan's birthday and we celebrated big! (If you don't believe me, just check out the cake...) He turned 27 and for his birthday dinner he decided that he wanted to invite friends over to my apt & his old stomping grounds (in case you didn't know, Brendan lived in my current apartment for two years before I moved in. Then he graciously handed it over to me and two other girls!) for a pasta dinner and celebration. Friday night we made a run to Target and bought enough food to feed a couple armies, then cooked for a few hours on Saturday afternoon and successfully made enough food to feed 35 people! It was a blast and a great turnout!


And as I mentioned in my previous post, we had sparkler candles (Thanks for those too, Maggie!)!! They were exactly like sparkler fireworks, except in the shape of a "2" and a "7". They were beautiful and perfect, but if you ever have them for your own cake, you should be ready to blow them out immediately because they aren't like regular candles that keep burning until you blow. They, just like a sparkler, go out on their own sweet timing. But they make for some pretty great pictures, don't they?!

[Sorry the pic quality isn't that great. They are from my phone because my camera took a nose dive into the toilet early in the night, and spent the rest of the party in a bowl of rice trying to absorb all the water. Good news though; it worked!]

want to see the biggest cake you've EVER seen??


Check out Maggie's blog post about Brendan's birthday cake! Maggie is an excellent baker and she kindly agreed to make Brendan's birthday cake for me...to feed 35-40 people! It was as delicious as it was big, and we celebrated with "2" and "7" sparkler candles (which you'll see in the next post)!! Luckily, for me, we had some left over...

[And, if you live in NYC and need a cake, you should contact Maggie!]

it's (almost) summer!

Last night sealed the deal. Summer is almost back! We celebrated a friend, Allison's, birthday at the Boat Basin with perfect company, perfect weather, a perfect view of the sunset, and a perfect Jersey City skyline and Hudson River view after the sun went down. I survived another northeast winter and could not be more excited about SUMMER again!

she's 9 already?!

I was fifteen when my oldest niece, Mayce, was born in 2001 and the only one of my friends who was an aunt. One, has it really been nine years since I was a freshman in high school?? And, two, I can't believe it's been that long since we welcomed her into the world. Happy birthday Mayce (yesterday)!


[One of my best friends from high school, Jarrett, took this picture of the birthday girl while she was at school yesterday. Thanks for sending, Jarrett! And yes, I'm still really jealous that you got to hang out with her on her birthday...and can you believe it's been that long since I came to the lunchroom bragging to you about my new niece?!]

my next birthday party

Sure, it seems a little early considering my birthday isn't until November, but Maggie sent me this idea for my 25th and I can't pass it up. It seems so perfect and so fitting for me, and I'm definitely planning to execute the idea for my next big day.


It's a rainbow birthday party! Guests are asked to dress in a single color. And, as the picture shows, the birthday girl wore a different color every hour! That's the kind of party I could get excited about.