Five on Friday

I'm so happy that it's Friday, so that I can enjoy the nice weekend with my family :)

1. Yesterday was my birthday, so I'm now officially in my "late twenties." I turned 27. I feel like once you get past a certain age, birthdays are just birthdays. I did have a great day yesterday though, and I'm just so thankful and blessed to have another year of life and all the great things in my life!

2. I unexpectedly got to be on one of our popular, local radio stations yesterday morning! The Alice 107.7 Heather and Pool Boy Show has been participating in a weekly King of the Kitchen Contest sponsored by the Beef Council. A specific type of dish (with beef) is determined each week and both DJs and one listener make that dish. Someone from the Beef Council tastes and judges which is the best out of the three, and someone wins! Their listener cook for yesterday had to drop out at the last minute, so they were asking for anyone who might have a crockpot beef dish to call in to participate yesterday morning. I just so happened to have some Taco Soup I had made the night before in the car with me to eat for lunch. I texted in, and they called and told me to come on in! I got to be on the radio for 5-10 minutes and got second place in the contest. I got to meet my two favorite DJs, and also got a few goodies. It was a fun, birthday surprise :)

3. I'm very excited for tonight because my mother-in-law is making a birthday dinner with two of my favorites: Macaroni Grill's Penne Rustica and German Chocolate Brownies! I feel like I ate terrible all last weekend in Charleston and continued that into this week, so why not take it into this weekend as well? I'll start over on Monday :)

4. This week really kicks off the Fall TV shows, and I'm so excited! I feel like there has been hardly anything decent to watch all Summer long, so I'm super excited to have all of my shows come back on.

5. Natasha from Hello! Happiness has a blog that I read everyday. She had a great post on Tuesday that I wanted to pass along. It's about comparison to others and being content, and I would recommend everyone check it out.