Happy 21st Birthday: A Memorable Celebration with Friends and Family

As we celebrated my 21st birthday, I couldn't help but think that this milestone birthday felt surreal. My friends and family had gathered to mark this special occasion, and we were all excited to start a new chapter in our lives.

The party was filled with laughter and excitement as we played Mario Party, which, I must admit, is really intense. The group dynamic was palpable, and everyone was having a great time. We even cut the cake together, but unfortunately, it was a bit of a mess. My camera wasn't working properly, but my friends were more than happy to make up for it.

I couldn't help but feel grateful for the love and support that I've received from my friends and family on social media. My birthday tweets were overwhelmingly sweet, and I loved seeing all the messages and wishes from everyone. It was clear that this birthday celebration was one to remember.

One of the highlights of the day was when we took a group photo with our DS consoles. This tradition, which started the previous year, brought us closer together as friends. We even had a mini- competition going on, trying to get the best Street Passes for each other. It was a lovely way to spend quality time together.

As the evening progressed, my friends surprised me by not only singing "Happy Birthday" but also bringing their own unique styles to the party. The atmosphere was electric, and I felt so grateful to have such amazing people in my life.

In between all the excitement, we managed to sneak in a few private moments with each other. It was lovely to catch up with my friends one-on-one, sharing stories and laughter. My favorite moment was when Joey joined us for the first time, bringing their infectious energy and humor to our little group.

Throughout the day, I also reflected on how quickly time had passed. Going back just a year, it felt like we were all 20 again, celebrating my last birthday as a young adult. Now, here I am, turning 21 and embracing this new chapter in life.

My friends and family made sure to mark this special occasion with me by taking some beautiful photos. We captured moments from our Mario Party session, and even got some adorable shots of our little group photo shoot. The analog photos, which were a thoughtful gift from Bri, added a lovely touch to the celebration.

As I looked around at all my loved ones, I couldn't help but feel grateful for this community that has grown up with me. We've shared countless memories together, and I know that this birthday will be one to treasure for years to come.

In conclusion, my 21st birthday was a truly unforgettable experience. From the laughter-filled Mario Party sessions to the heartfelt group photos, it was clear that this celebration was all about love, friendship, and new beginnings.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enguys happy birthday to Justine that's me I can't believe this so we were just about ready to start setting up for the party tonight we're having a Mario Party 10 party and the cake is here and I can already see it and I'm kind of like freaking out I hope it's okay holy holy moly I can see inside of it I already see it holy crap it's beautiful that's the coolest birthday cake I've ever seen it is everything that I ever wanted and that's your little character this is my me how do you like it Jenna it is the most perfect thing that I've ever seen in my entire life we can't eat it oh my gosh that's cuz it is the new Nintendo DS color too they forgot the sea stick they forgot the sea stick what do we do how do we keep it cool refrigerate it um yeah so it's occup I might have got a little bit of there's a lot of holy moly for the friends for the for my friends okay Jen thanks so much for my cake you're welcome it's probably I don't even know what it's going to taste like but it doesn't even matter it doesn't matter cuz it looks awesome and these are all of the new amiibos who are going to come to the party I'm going to bring them down so we decided we're going to set up a photo booth it's South by Southwest I went over to like the Intel gaming section and they had a bunch of Microsoft surfaces and I was so excited because they gave me one to test out for the week and I couldn't fit my laptop in my book bag so they let me use this at South by and it was honestly a lifesaver and guess what else it's going to be at this current party photo booth we tested it yesterday you're not going to like it fits perfectly like it's almost as if it was made for it this was made for you and me for the birthday party look at this perfect this is the photo booth even have a lighting kit yep wow okay we can put the timer on oh it's great even has really cute little noises I was surprised when I first got cuz it actually takes really good video too with the front facing watch we're going to do a video now oh oh this is this is amazing M I can't believe it I think I'm going to permanently leave it here you should I think it's a great idea everyone that comes in has to do a little photo booth session I wonder if there's an app like a photo boo do like a digital like guest book super cool it's really cool would think you actually built that shelf for the surface I did it the surface the the surface was built for the Shelf cool I can't wait to party all right J guess what we need to do now for we got to add some more decorations look at this amazing birthday present this isn't such an amazing birthday I got all my friends here well they're not all here yet but Adam came into town doesn't even live here flew in for the party like I I wouldn't miss it though a real life Mario Party is amazing so I'm glad I saved these for my last party can you even like when people say what yep when people say literally can't even like this is what they mean where do we put them everywhere everywhere party is now starting to kick off we Tiffany brought some Mario accessories oh you have your Mario hats too no Tiffany brought those I was like mustache lollipops Franchesca bought emojis and then Drew shows up with a hat already on oh Andy brought oh wait show them what you brought show them are you this is amazing NES with the classic Super Mario World and Super Mario classic it's really really great I can't even believe it we don't we're not eating it we can't eat it it's too beautiful oh my God that's awes 21 years old today that's me look at that happy birthday to me you look so good thank you thank you it's funny cuz I think I was 21 last year too crazy how that happens guys we're going to cut the cake here we are Hi how are you Mario Party is really really really intense but we're going to Cut the Cake are you guys ready yeah okay okay I'm so ner I'm going to I'll put record I'm going to record the video on the surface we're going to cut it you cut it you cut it not my birthday your are we should get okay on my 21st birthday we don't sing any today I'm 21 happy birthday is this even my camera I think is this yours happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear happy birthday to you make there's no candles yeah we forgot the cand1 where's the knife oh my God it's so you didn't see the cake that's saw I Instagram a it's all right you know something you want to blow something out cut it me with two hands please your birthday C should I do it okay right down the DS that's funny oh my God she just cut of course that was I right through it's not actually edible though okay who was the first like this is like a wedding we're like filming her cutting you should probably save a slice of it and put it in the freezer oh oh my God Che is here strippers are here what are you doing what am I doing that was you I didn't do anything that wasn't you somebody grabbed my but there's your piece Joey the big that's like they cut this in like eight pieces H just a little bit of a mess I don't like it got a lot of Street passes last night good Street people we got 10 Street people so one of the requirements of coming to Justine's birthday party was bringing your DS so that we could share Street passes it's true and I met you I think for the fifth or sixth time I love it we should meet more ex so it's the day day after my birthday and Jenna's here hanging out hello you missed the fun cleanup oh my goodness it was a hot mess yeah sorry I couldn't be there for that it's okay Adam helps me Adam is so sweet I love Adam I love I love Adam so much um so I was just about to I wanted to look through some of the pictures that we took I think I might be obsessed with the Microsoft Surface I just like it's like basically a freaking computer but it's like a tablet I want to see that some of our video actually what I oh my God J me and D we got our camos awes I had a really fun time ni oh my god oh that's funny oh Joey hey hey Joey I didn't even know this was all going on I'm just walking around in the background my Dre oh my God both sides the front and the back it's 1080p which is pretty that was actually really funny I know happy birthday my byy bitty bitty yeah so you turning like what years old I'm being SMY up and up girl yeah girl I hope you get it s I didn't even know anybody even made any movies this is great my God I love this is awesome this video was actually really good oh it's our little group picture that was hard it was actually very hard and I think Lamar's right there he is in there you just can't quite see him I think someone was over here too Santino did not want to be in the video did not want to be well than you for everyone for coming to my party oh my gosh Adam I don't even know what's happening we're not singing we're not singing they sang They freaking sang this is this was testing it the day before this thing's amazing that's great just really great just testing I think I'm making a video this was my first video hello oh my God I love it well thank you guys so much for all of your birthday tweets and and everything it was really it was quite an overwhelming day everyone was so sweet and so awesome I love you guys uh I'll see you in my next video thanks for my amazing cake you're welcome I didn't make it so it was it doesn't matter wasn't a problem oh my goodness and then I have like analog photos Bri thank you Bri for the amazing present that you didn't even know that you got me well you did but cuz Jenna picked it out I got one of those little um little like it's not polar I think Fuji Fuji Fuji I don't know whatever but they're really cute and we just got a little book to put the photos in Focus you pig you get the point you get the point I'm going to go bye aguys happy birthday to Justine that's me I can't believe this so we were just about ready to start setting up for the party tonight we're having a Mario Party 10 party and the cake is here and I can already see it and I'm kind of like freaking out I hope it's okay holy holy moly I can see inside of it I already see it holy crap it's beautiful that's the coolest birthday cake I've ever seen it is everything that I ever wanted and that's your little character this is my me how do you like it Jenna it is the most perfect thing that I've ever seen in my entire life we can't eat it oh my gosh that's cuz it is the new Nintendo DS color too they forgot the sea stick they forgot the sea stick what do we do how do we keep it cool refrigerate it um yeah so it's occup I might have got a little bit of there's a lot of holy moly for the friends for the for my friends okay Jen thanks so much for my cake you're welcome it's probably I don't even know what it's going to taste like but it doesn't even matter it doesn't matter cuz it looks awesome and these are all of the new amiibos who are going to come to the party I'm going to bring them down so we decided we're going to set up a photo booth it's South by Southwest I went over to like the Intel gaming section and they had a bunch of Microsoft surfaces and I was so excited because they gave me one to test out for the week and I couldn't fit my laptop in my book bag so they let me use this at South by and it was honestly a lifesaver and guess what else it's going to be at this current party photo booth we tested it yesterday you're not going to like it fits perfectly like it's almost as if it was made for it this was made for you and me for the birthday party look at this perfect this is the photo booth even have a lighting kit yep wow okay we can put the timer on oh it's great even has really cute little noises I was surprised when I first got cuz it actually takes really good video too with the front facing watch we're going to do a video now oh oh this is this is amazing M I can't believe it I think I'm going to permanently leave it here you should I think it's a great idea everyone that comes in has to do a little photo booth session I wonder if there's an app like a photo boo do like a digital like guest book super cool it's really cool would think you actually built that shelf for the surface I did it the surface the the surface was built for the Shelf cool I can't wait to party all right J guess what we need to do now for we got to add some more decorations look at this amazing birthday present this isn't such an amazing birthday I got all my friends here well they're not all here yet but Adam came into town doesn't even live here flew in for the party like I I wouldn't miss it though a real life Mario Party is amazing so I'm glad I saved these for my last party can you even like when people say what yep when people say literally can't even like this is what they mean where do we put them everywhere everywhere party is now starting to kick off we Tiffany brought some Mario accessories oh you have your Mario hats too no Tiffany brought those I was like mustache lollipops Franchesca bought emojis and then Drew shows up with a hat already on oh Andy brought oh wait show them what you brought show them are you this is amazing NES with the classic Super Mario World and Super Mario classic it's really really great I can't even believe it we don't we're not eating it we can't eat it it's too beautiful oh my God that's awes 21 years old today that's me look at that happy birthday to me you look so good thank you thank you it's funny cuz I think I was 21 last year too crazy how that happens guys we're going to cut the cake here we are Hi how are you Mario Party is really really really intense but we're going to Cut the Cake are you guys ready yeah okay okay I'm so ner I'm going to I'll put record I'm going to record the video on the surface we're going to cut it you cut it you cut it not my birthday your are we should get okay on my 21st birthday we don't sing any today I'm 21 happy birthday is this even my camera I think is this yours happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear happy birthday to you make there's no candles yeah we forgot the cand1 where's the knife oh my God it's so you didn't see the cake that's saw I Instagram a it's all right you know something you want to blow something out cut it me with two hands please your birthday C should I do it okay right down the DS that's funny oh my God she just cut of course that was I right through it's not actually edible though okay who was the first like this is like a wedding we're like filming her cutting you should probably save a slice of it and put it in the freezer oh oh my God Che is here strippers are here what are you doing what am I doing that was you I didn't do anything that wasn't you somebody grabbed my but there's your piece Joey the big that's like they cut this in like eight pieces H just a little bit of a mess I don't like it got a lot of Street passes last night good Street people we got 10 Street people so one of the requirements of coming to Justine's birthday party was bringing your DS so that we could share Street passes it's true and I met you I think for the fifth or sixth time I love it we should meet more ex so it's the day day after my birthday and Jenna's here hanging out hello you missed the fun cleanup oh my goodness it was a hot mess yeah sorry I couldn't be there for that it's okay Adam helps me Adam is so sweet I love Adam I love I love Adam so much um so I was just about to I wanted to look through some of the pictures that we took I think I might be obsessed with the Microsoft Surface I just like it's like basically a freaking computer but it's like a tablet I want to see that some of our video actually what I oh my God J me and D we got our camos awes I had a really fun time ni oh my god oh that's funny oh Joey hey hey Joey I didn't even know this was all going on I'm just walking around in the background my Dre oh my God both sides the front and the back it's 1080p which is pretty that was actually really funny I know happy birthday my byy bitty bitty yeah so you turning like what years old I'm being SMY up and up girl yeah girl I hope you get it s I didn't even know anybody even made any movies this is great my God I love this is awesome this video was actually really good oh it's our little group picture that was hard it was actually very hard and I think Lamar's right there he is in there you just can't quite see him I think someone was over here too Santino did not want to be in the video did not want to be well than you for everyone for coming to my party oh my gosh Adam I don't even know what's happening we're not singing we're not singing they sang They freaking sang this is this was testing it the day before this thing's amazing that's great just really great just testing I think I'm making a video this was my first video hello oh my God I love it well thank you guys so much for all of your birthday tweets and and everything it was really it was quite an overwhelming day everyone was so sweet and so awesome I love you guys uh I'll see you in my next video thanks for my amazing cake you're welcome I didn't make it so it was it doesn't matter wasn't a problem oh my goodness and then I have like analog photos Bri thank you Bri for the amazing present that you didn't even know that you got me well you did but cuz Jenna picked it out I got one of those little um little like it's not polar I think Fuji Fuji Fuji I don't know whatever but they're really cute and we just got a little book to put the photos in Focus you pig you get the point you get the point I'm going to go bye a\n"