The Wenzel's: Birthday Bash Round 22

Tomorrow is my birthday! I will be 22 years old and Ben and I have been celebrating for quite some time now. Last week we celebrated with my family, tonight we celebrated with Ben's dad (his mother is out of town), and tomorrow is my actual birthday. He has been such a good birthday supporter and spoiled me much more than I spoiled him. He was even kind enough to make my favorite birthday cake, the same cake that I request every year, Pillsbury Strawberry cake and frosting. I tell myself that I'll grow out of it, but I don't, and I'm grateful for my family in honoring that request every year. For those of you that think birthday cakes have to be made from scratch or that they need to be store bought, I urge you to submit to box cakes. So delicious. We went to HuHot for my pre-birthday lunch and I was so excited. We also went out for delicious pizza tonight and I'll post a picture of those. For my birthday tomorrow Ben and I are both getting treated to a mini vacation before our actual vacation starts on Friday. The Chicago Bulls play game 6 of the NBA playoffs in Chicago tomorrow, we fly out of Chicago on Friday, do you see where this is going? We are driving to Chicago tomorrow afternoon to go to the Bull's game, staying in a hotel and then flying to Mexico on Friday morning. We are dang lucky kids. As we have spent the last few days at Ben's parents house, we have commented on how amazing parents are in all that they provide for us. It's so nice to have stamps and envelopes in the cupboard, snacks, washer/dryer downstairs, etc. Ben referred to his parents' house as the "Wenzel All Inclusive Resort", because it has been such a treat to stay here.

In preparation for Mexico I may have done a little tanning in order to reduce the chance of burning as much. I packed a brand new bottle of sunscreen but I'm not convinced that will be enough. Ben will be lathering up with sunscreen as well seeing as we just came from a winter in snowy Utah. The place I went tanning at had a space ship for a tanning bed. The level is called "Instant" because it is supposed to make you tan instantly...obviously. Well it scared me. I laid in there worried that I was going to explode or something of that sort. I took a couple pictures of the bed..not me..because I was so frightened/amazed. I probably wont be posting much this next week, but expect a great post all about our adventures in Mexico when we get back (May 10). I may even give you a little peek of our new apartment once we move in. Seeing as I wont have a job, it will be a lot of unpacking, cooking, blogging, and laying by the pool until I find something.

Until next time....

Kristen