25.

well. i feel like most people would find this the most inappropriate time to write a birthday blog. or any blog for that matter. but i have just said goodbye to my last guests and i felt the need to let the blogging world know how i really feel..

i am so incredibly blessed to have to most wonderful friends a girl could ever ask for. i don't know how i ever got so lucky. how am i so lucky?? for the first time in my entire life, friends dimmed the lights and surprised me with my very own homemade birthday cake topped with candles.. an entire household of friends sang to me, and i blew out the candles completely overwhelmed with feelings of happiness and indescribable wonder.

25 years. quite the marker. i don't know what it means exactly. this past week i spent some time reflecting on what it might mean, and what it might feel like.. and i've made several realizations about growth and maturity.. and i know that one day doesn't necessarily mark an entire change in a person, because really, it is one day past the last day of my 24th year.. but at the same time, i feel like it marks a drastic change in my life.. because the person i've been conspiring to be for some time is coming through, and it's more prominent now than it has ever been.. and maybe the label of 25 is an excuse to really push it through.. one last "hurrah", if you will.

i know what i want. and i'm slowly learning what it takes to get it. and i love all of you for being here with me through the thick and thin.. it means the world. and i certainly wouldn't be the person i am today without every single individual bit and piece of every one of you.

xox.