A Birthday and an Announcement...

Last Friday night (yes, an entire week ago) we went out for Kate's ?th birthday party!

The night started out with a trip to one of our favorite delis, McAllister's,

where we loaded up on these before digging into

our sandwiches.

You can see one of her presents there in the background.

Since her favorite magazine,

Domino is no long published a few of us pitched in

and got her the book!

Then she got her favorite Tiramisu Cheesecake from

The Cheesecake Factory!

Below are Krissy and Shayla. They are a couple

of the most beautiful and hilarious

women I know!!

You don't know it yet, but Shayla and I have some big

news to share later on in the post!

Here's the birthday girl (on the left) and me on the right!
Kate, it's so hard to believe we're ? years old!

Seems like it was just yesterday when we were
cruising around town looking for hotties,
sippin' on YooHoo
and listening to Nelly as loud as
two white girls can.

Anyway, thank you for being such a great friend over

the past 12 years! I can't imagine the stories

we'll have to tell when we

look like these two.

Like, remember that night when we went to Mimi's cafe
and the manager locked us on the patio and then
denied it!

I am SO the one on the left!
And for the news that sadly overshadowed Kate's birthday dinner...











Shayla got ENGAGED!



I bet you're wondering who the lucky guy is...

...but first
look at that bling!

....and the lucky fella is......

ETHAN!!

But first,

Preschool graduation!