friday was my 22nd birthday. wow. 22. i can’t belive i’m that old (but still young at heart and will be for a looong time). my family celebrated by going out to the one and only ron’s barn. they have catered events at caswell during the summer and they have the best bar-b-q that i’ve ever had. well they have a resturaunt in sanford and coats and we decided to go to the one in coats to celebrate for my birthday. we ate like gluttons, but i don’t care because the food was heavenly. we came back to the house and i opened some presents. i got a starbucks gift card, itunes gift card, two shirts, and some floormats for my jeep. after that we watched “the island” and called it a night.

last night, i got together with some old friends in raleigh. it was me, dave, steph, todd, and clay. we went out to outback and got some good prime rib steak. afterwards we went and hung out at dave’s new apartment. we had plenty of laughs and it was good to see all of them.

today we celebrated with the rest of my family down in sanford. my grandpa’s birthday is next weekend so we had a big family get together to celebrate. we had some good ol’ fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and of course my favorite, caramel cake.

but that’s not all. i’m stretching out my birthday celebrations as long as possible because i get to celebrate with my magan this coming weekend in boone. she had a retreat this weekend and wasn’t able to come down, so i can’t wait to see her on thursday. i get to go to crusade on thursday night and then friday we are going to go hiking at linville falls. my family is riding up to boone on friday so that my sister can visit lees-mcree college in banner elk. all in all, it is going to be an awesome weekend and i can’t wait.

matt