On Friday night, we started the weekend off with a bang.We did dinner at Cheesecake Factory ( so delicious!) with my sisters, their roommate Emily, our friends Josh and Natalie, and Jareds sister and her husband (Will and Emily). We had so much fun! I got the most wonderful birthday cake ever, Red Velvet Cheesecake. If you haven't been lucky enough to experience it, it is four layers tall. 2 layers of red velvet cake, with their signature heavenly cheesecake layered in between. As if that isn't good enough, the whole side is layered with curls of white chocolate. *Sigh* Can you imagine anything better? Even though it did end up coming back up that night, it was totally worth every bite.
The next day, I opened my presents from Kendall and Jared to discover they had both unknowingly bought me the exact same thing! It was a little freaky to be honest. Jared got me a pink Snuggie, Scattergories, and a jigsaw puzzle, and Kendall got me a zebra print Snuggie and Bunco! LOL. It cracks me up that neither one of them knew that the other was getting that. What are the odds?! I mean c'mon... snuggies? Seriously?! And even more coincidental, that they BOTH got games to go with it? Hilarious. They both just know me so well... haha.
*If you are wondering, this beautiful green afghan is how Jared chose to wrap my birthday presents. lol
My birthday also happened to fall on the big BYU vs. TCU Homecoming game, so we put on our gear, practiced our fight song, and headed down to the Lavelle Edwards Stadium. Apparently the football team didn't get the memo is was my birthday because they really let us down. They didn't play too well and the game was pretty much a wipeout, but we still had fun!
We topped the night off by eating at Five Guys, a place that makes really good burgers, and then me, Jared, and Ken headed back to our Condo for an intense game of Scattergories. Ken fooled us at first by pretending she was all oblivious and didn't know how to play. Then she all the sudden turned up the heat and gave us a run for our money.
This was one of my favorite blurbs of the night:
"Okay the letter is "O", the category is "Something Black". What did you get?"
Jared: "Oreo"
Cassie: "Onyx"
Kendall:silence... "OPRAH!" (busts up laughing)
That right there is why I love Scattergories, but even more so, why I love playing with Ken. hahaha.
Sunday we went to Church with Kaity and Kris, and then headed up the canyon for a beautiful scenic tour of the fall leaves, and a Whittaker photo shoot. Our first stop on the tour was Bridal Veil Falls, then we headed up to Victoria Park. Here are a few of my favorites:
I call this one the "Whittaker Family Tree"
I fulfilled my Dad's tradition of turning your BirthDAY into a "Birthday WEEKEND". I had a great time, It's definitely one I won't forget.
