Monday Birthday Celebrations - A weekend to remember!

What an amazing weekend. I had a series of birthday celebrations throughout this weekend! Here's a quick recap! My birthday was on Friday, and my sweet husband had planned out the whole day for the two of us. We started the day skyping with family back home, blew my candles and got tons of sweet wishes! So grateful for technology! Everything was amazing. Since my birthday was on the Chinese New Years, it just happened that we went to a Chinese Restaurant and we had some delicious food. Friday was totally awesome!

On Saturday my BFF, Maz came down to Provo to visit us! The beautiful cake that you see in these pictures is a work of art from Maz{she has a blog as well which I totally love - check it out}

I loved that cake! Not only was it beautiful, but it was so delicious as well! Sunflower is my favorite flower and I just loved it how she personalized it for me.

We had lunch and afterwards I took some pictures of Maz. She is running for Miss Africa Utah in early March, and I can't wait! The photoshoot was amazing and I'll blog about it later.

On Sunday, I had a little dinner party with some awesome friends, who made my birthday last a little longer!

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I hope you have a fabulous week!

Friday The Story of the Birthday Dress

 Dress - Golden Mimosas // Cardigan - old (similar) H&M // Boots - sold out (similar) Forever 21 // Sunglasses - Forever 21 // Watch - c/o UWA 

Since I was a little girl, I used to get really excited about my birthday. Even though my birthday is in the middle of winter, still the love I get from family and friends makes it as bright and warm as a summer day. Over these years, my birthday day meant getting together with family and friends, eating a lot of delicious food, laughing over past memories, taking a lot of pictures, dancing & singing {especially when my aunts arrive, that's when all the dancing and singing starts}. A special tradition for my birthday was wearing a new dress made by my mom. Even though I am 6000 miles apart from my family, these traditions still continue! Yes, today is my birthday and is going to be the best birthday yet! I get to have two birthday celebrations; one in Albania and one in Utah. My mom makes me blow my candles over Skype as well. It's so much fun!

This lovely dress made by my wonderful mom, is my new birthday dress this year. This dress got my heart immediately! I love it!

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