24?!

Yes! 24 is correct! Jamison, (my husband) just turned 24 yesterday! 

{I tease him that he is now a quarter of a century, it didn't make him feel better that I am only a fifth of a century!} 

Our parents would groan if they knew that we thought that we were old! 

Because it is our first birthday as a newlywed couple, I had a lot of pressure, mostly self inflicted pressure...only because I had to make it a good one without breaking our 'hardly there' budget. So...with a couple tricks up my sleeves I had to get crafty with the things I had. Starting with my birthday sign, made out of markers and index cards...{hey...I don't know where anything is at still....sue me!} And with presents of some of Jamison's favorite treats.....I did my best to make his birthday his best one yet!

His first present happened to be in the fridge, so Wednesday afternoon after I had gone shopping he was banned from the refrigerator. He was a good sport for the most part, I think I starved him just a little bit though since he didn't have access to the fridge though...oh well! The stuff you sacrifice when it's your birthday! I sound mean...but to him, the present outweighed the sacrifice by far!

I got Jamison a gallon of Whole Milk, his absolute favorite! I had told him that when we got married that we were going to have skim milk throughout our marriage because whole milk is disgusting....hence the milk carton to the right...but for his birthday I thought I would let this rule slide for the day. 

Before we went to lunch at Panda Express, his favorite place to go eat, I let him open up one of his gifts. Once again, it is another of one of his favorite treats!

After a great lunch, Jamison had to go to his Ceramics class for a couple hours....so while he went to class Cierra, Paige and I tackled a dessert recipe that I had randomly found online that had potential of being liked by him. Since Jamison loves peanut butter in about anything, there was a really good chance that he would ike it, and besides that...this recipe had enough peanut butter to make anyone happy...that or to go into cardiac arrest!

The original recipe called for it to be in a loaf pan, but since I didn't have the correct size of pans for about anything, I thought cupcake sized bites would be better. And it was better! The dessert is so rich that it would have been difficult to have eaten anything more than just a cupcake sized bite!

It turns out that the little cookie on top looks like a tombstone, to make Jamison feel better about himself I told him that it was in Halloween 'spirit', he didn't seem to believe me..but I don't think he cared either way!

Before dinner and the dessert party, I allowed Jamison to open up the last of his gifts. He once again loved all of his gifts! {I was so embarrassed by how cheap the gifts were, but thankfully he loved how simple they were!} Jamison is so great!

 I had invited his family and my sisters to come to dessert at 7 o'clock at our house so he could blow out candles etc. Since Mama Garner is an excellent chef/cook/baker I was really nervous that my recipe I was trying out was going to fail. I was so worried that no one was going to like it that Mama Garner brought ice cream just in case it really did suck! So although I had a back up dessert, I still was nervous! Bless their hearts, the Garner family are such nice people that even if they didn't like it they still would have been nice enough to say that they had liked it. Luckily, everyone loved the dessert, including Jamison, and it was a great success!

This is the birthday man with his yummy leftovers! Judging by his face, he loved it! Success!

After a couple of rousing games of Crooked Rook with his family we watched a couple of episodes of Psych and called it early for bed! It had been a busy and eventful day and we were both tired from the festivities. 

After reading scriptures for the night Jamison told me that he had had a wonderful birthday, and that he couldn't have been any happier! It makes me so happy that my husband enjoyed his day, Happy Birthday Jamison!