i could be sweet and i could be sweeter

recently, my friend yajaira suggested we set aside one evening every other week to hang out and catch up. we've been doing this for the past couple of months and i always look forward to our 'date nights'. we usually meet somewhere for dinner and then spend a few hours talking and laughing until one of us has to go home :) we grew up together and we've always had a lot in common, so it's nice to spend this time with her again and it is definitely long overdue. as i get older i realize how hard it is to find true friends, and luckily for me, that's exactly what yajaira is.

last weekend was her 25th birthday, but she was sick and i was out of town, so we decided that we would celebrate last night. our plan was to meet up at the standard restaurant, but i snuck in ahead of time to drop off the birthday cake i had made for her (aka 're-made' if you read my last blog post). i actually walked right past her with it in my hand! but fortunately she was focused on her iphone :)

we had a great time (as usual) and as we were finishing up our meals, i gave a little wink/nod to the waitress who then formed a choir of busboys and waiters to sing happy birthday to a completely shocked yajaira :) the best part was when they pronounced her name correctly mid-song (thanks to my phonetically spelled cheat sheet i had slipped the waitress earlier: JUH-hide-UH)... i recorded the entire thing and the smile plastered on her face made me super happy :) here are a few photos i took of the birthday girl blowing out her candles and of the birthday cake itself:

Surprise! Yajaira blowing out her candles...

i made her a chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting – yum!

...and since i know she is an avid reader of this blog, i wanted to wish her (again) a happy twenty-fifth birthday and thank her for being such an amazing friend to me all of these years...

me, you <3