Weekend Recap (Husband Birthday Edition...)

We celebrated the husband’s birthday this weekend and it was such a low key glorious day. I made him a special breakfast to start the day with, which included egg whites, turkey sausage and sweet potatoes pancakes.

We lounged around watching movies and he LOVED his gift…. BeachBody’s “Insanity”.

We ended the night by going to a Brazilian steakhouse, which was a very unique experience. Basically you get a card that you flip over to show its green side and before you know it you’re bombarded with meat. The hubs was in MEAT HEAVEN!! Meat was coming from all different directions and it was so good. Once your ready for them to stop, you just flip your card over to the red side and that lets them know not to bother you. It was a really fun night, but I think I can go the rest of the month not eating another piece of meat…LOL!

Another wonderful birthday for the Love of my life!!

Happy Birthday...

No weekend recap this week...

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Today would have been my friend Diane’s 30th birthday today. She passed away in October and was never granted the opportunity to share this day with friends and family. A day doesn’t go by where I don’t think about her, as she was a huge part of my life and that void will never be completely filled. Due to life and silly issues, I never got the chance to say Hello or Goodbye, and that truly breaks my heart.

It’s said often, but I don’t think we truly sit down and think about it, “Life is short”. You have no idea when it will be your last day, and I think many of us don’t live each day to its fullest.

We can take advantage of the simplest pleasures, hugging our loved ones, feeling the warm sun on our noses or eating yummy frozen yogurt. The boy is always asking me why I take a million pictures, and I guess its because I want the memories and a way to look back at the good times.

I’ve often thought to myself if somebody wanted to make a movie of my life, would anyone want to watch it….Don’t think so ( I don’t even think I could get it on Lifetime…LOL). I live my life in fear. Fear of change, Fear of the unknown, Fear of Failure and Success.

I know what I am capable of, but being comfortable, uncertainty and FEAR allows me to stay on the same boring path, day after day. I know what I want for my life, for my future, and I just need to get the COURAGE to do it. To be able to live my life to the fullest and treat each day like it could be my last (to a limit, no sky diving or high speed chases in this script…LOL)…that’s a blessing an opportunity that many are not granted.

I can’t continue thinking what if and letting that hold me back, only I can create my own destiny!

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Happy Birthday!

Weekend Recap...(Birthday Edition)

I am the big 3-0…and guess what I haven’t gotten any extra grey hairs, my head is still attached and I am still pretty sane. This birthday milestone was pretty hard on me, leaving my twenties and entering my DIRTY THIRTIES….for some reason I thought I would wake up feeling changed, like an old, dried up version of myself…but nothing, zip, nada…I am the same old me and its actually silly to think that I would become a different person because of another year.

Now on to the birthday weekend, I woke up bright and early ready for some yummy crepes for my birthday lunch. We set out to drive literally 10 minutes from my apartment, but it turned into the most horrific, car sickening 40 minutes of my life. Unknown to me, there was a huge marathon going on in Austin (they said over 22 thousand people showed up to this thing, from all over the world and a couple actually got married in the middle of it…CRAZY!!!) over the weekend, so there was a ton of traffic, walking and driving downtown, so it was busy…busy.

We get to the crepe place and it was told there was an HOUR wait. An hour wait for a French burrito….NO THANK YOU!! Feeling very bummed and nauseated we drove across town to the Cheesecake Factory and had tons of yummy tapas and my birthday stand by Strawberry Shortcake. It was so yummy!!

(you can never go wrong with FRIED CHEESE!!)

Later that night we met up with a ton of people from my class at this place called Main Event, which was pretty much an adult Chucky Cheese. We started out playing glow in the dark golf, which was not fun. You would have had to been on acid or something to have enjoyed that experience, I felt like I was in a crazy haunted house and ended that game quickly. We played a bunch of other games, I made an ass of myself with dance dance revolution and we bowled a billion games.

It was a total BLAST and confirmed that Thirty is just another age to mark off.

I had a very blessed and eventful birthday and I am beyond thankful to have had so many people wanting to make me feel like a super star on my special day.

Oh, ya I also got my Katy Perry tickets…Thanks LOVE!!

Before I go I had to show you the FANCY dessert we made on Monday.  I love how it came out, but let me tell you this thing was way too consuming and bland to ever want to make it again. 

You can check out my 2010 Birthday post here.

Happy Birthday...

Dear Rick –

I know your birthday was last Friday, but due to school, work and errands I didn’t get to fully shower you in Birthday goodness. I wanted to thank you for allowing me to spend another wonderful year with you. Each day that I am a part of your life I truly understand what happiness is all about.

When we were going through our engagement photos over the weekend I remember coming across my all time favorite photo. The photo that I was totally against and thought would ruin our session. Looking at this photo it shows just how much you really know us, it is truly a true reflection of our relationship…Happiness, Joy and Silliness.

In a few months we will be sharing another special day…and I can’t wait!

Loving you,

 FOREVER & ALWAYS!