happy birthday brooke!

Hey everybody! It’s my oldest sister’s birthday today! To celebrate this momentous occasion, I thought I would share with you all what I would have bought her, or anyone of equal awesomeness, had I 1) been more organized, 2) had copious amounts of disposable income, and 3) been a more generous and giving human being. Unfortunately for Brooke— and the rest of you—I am/have none of those things so she will have to settle with a woulda-coulda-shoulda birthday blog post. Hey, it’s the thought/blog post that counts, right?

First I would have taken her out to dinner to this great restaurant:

Then I would have paid for us to attend this amazing pasta-making class just upstairs in their dough room after dinner:

Then we would go home and I would have given her this fun and amazing cookbook that everybody won’t shut up about:

Then, even though she says she sucks at baking, we would have baked something tasty from that yummy cookbook with this amazing enamel baking set I would give her:

Then, after all that hard work and tasty food, her favorite NBA player Karl “The Mailman” Malone would show up and help us clean up!

Then, after sending Karl home, we would complain about being soooo full and then go to bed. But the fun wouldn’t stop there because in the morning, I would have made sticky buns and then given her these awesome wooden labels for her to use in her garden:

And that is my thoughtful, although pretty much thoughtless, birthday present to my sister Brooke.

Hopefully, this year she will settle for a card…