Saturday, November 12, 2011
New blogger mistake
So as I looked at my new posts I just put up today I noticed that I made a mistake. The post called Golden Birthday should be the first post you read followed by the post Birthday Weekend because that was the order they happened in real life, but I messed that up. So just a little advice, read the post Golden Birthday before you read the post Birthday Weekend, it'll make more sense that way. I'll try to not let this happen again.
Birthday Weekend
To continue the fun of my birthday we decided to have a birthday weekend together since we couldn't really spend the day together on my actual birthday. A little back story, before we had gotten married I had gone to this wedding expo and they had this grand prize for one lucky winner, and what do you know I won that big grand prize. One of the wonderful prizes that was part of the grand prize was a free night stay in a Hamptonn Inn hotel. The only catch was it was only valid at either the Lehi hotel or the Salt Lake hotel (not somewhere real fun like california or something) so we decided the Salt Lake hotel would be the best choice.
We went that same weekend of my birthday and planned to head up to Salt Lake Friday night after I had gotten off work. Come to find out there was a BYU football game on tv that night so we of course had to watch that before we could head up to Salt Lake. So we headed over to Lance's brothers house were a group of people were hanging out watching the game. The game ended a little after 9:00 so we didn't get to our hotel till about 10:30.
There wasn't any ice cream places or even gas stations to get treats around the hotel so we headed down to the vending machines to see what goodies we could get there. I looked in my wallet and saw that I only had about 3 dollars in my wallet so we asked the front desk for quarters and we both just got a Dr. Pepper.
The next day we got up and got ready to go see the Halloween dance production called Thriller. This was another one of Lances thoughtful gifts to me. He knew I liked watching dancing and even found out that one of the dancers from the show So You Think You Can Dance was in the production and knew that I liked that show and might like that this person was in the production (again very thoughtful).
The show started at 2 and we got to the theater hall at about 1230 just to make sure we got tickets because when Lance called earlier in the morning they said tickets were going fast. Once we got the tickets we found a subway close by and just got a quick bit to eat before the show.
We were able to take our seats about a half hour before the show started, and our seats were the last seats possible right against the back wall. Which was fine with me because I felt I had a good view of the whole stage.
As we were waiting for the show to start they have these dancers dressed as zombies and they walk around just scaring people. Lance wanted to get a picture of me with one of them but they never traveled all the way up to where we were seated and I wasn't about to go up to one of them and ask them. The production was about two and a half hours long and my sweet husband sat through the whole thing for me. It was a great entertaining show I enjoyed it and Lance even said there were some dances he enjoyed too.
After the show we headed over to the Gate Way and ate dinner at Tucanos. Tucanos is this delicious brazilian restaurant that has this buffet of brazilian meats and when its your birthday month you get a free meal there, so of course we take advantage of that. Also when its your birthday they sing to you and give you ice cream.
As we were walking around the Mall we got an invite from Lance's brother to one of his friends Halloween parties up in Salt Lake. So we drove over to this friends house and before we went in the house we watched people walking in and realized that we might be the only ones not dressed up. So we found a Smiths close by and checked there selection of Halloween costumes. After we debated for a while with the selection they had, we decided to check out the Walmart near by to see if they had a wider selection of costumes. Again we found ourselves debating for a while over that selection of costumes at Walmart and found there costume selection was to expensive. As a last resort we decided to check the Kmart across the street, and if we didn't find anything there then we'd just not be dressed up and would be prepared for the ridicule we would get for not having costumes. Well low and behold we came across these jail inmate costumes that were on sale for $10 each, sold. So we hurried back to the friends house, changed in the car and joined the party.
It was a great, fun filled birthday weekend!
We went that same weekend of my birthday and planned to head up to Salt Lake Friday night after I had gotten off work. Come to find out there was a BYU football game on tv that night so we of course had to watch that before we could head up to Salt Lake. So we headed over to Lance's brothers house were a group of people were hanging out watching the game. The game ended a little after 9:00 so we didn't get to our hotel till about 10:30.
There wasn't any ice cream places or even gas stations to get treats around the hotel so we headed down to the vending machines to see what goodies we could get there. I looked in my wallet and saw that I only had about 3 dollars in my wallet so we asked the front desk for quarters and we both just got a Dr. Pepper.
The next day we got up and got ready to go see the Halloween dance production called Thriller. This was another one of Lances thoughtful gifts to me. He knew I liked watching dancing and even found out that one of the dancers from the show So You Think You Can Dance was in the production and knew that I liked that show and might like that this person was in the production (again very thoughtful).
The show started at 2 and we got to the theater hall at about 1230 just to make sure we got tickets because when Lance called earlier in the morning they said tickets were going fast. Once we got the tickets we found a subway close by and just got a quick bit to eat before the show.
We were able to take our seats about a half hour before the show started, and our seats were the last seats possible right against the back wall. Which was fine with me because I felt I had a good view of the whole stage.
As we were waiting for the show to start they have these dancers dressed as zombies and they walk around just scaring people. Lance wanted to get a picture of me with one of them but they never traveled all the way up to where we were seated and I wasn't about to go up to one of them and ask them. The production was about two and a half hours long and my sweet husband sat through the whole thing for me. It was a great entertaining show I enjoyed it and Lance even said there were some dances he enjoyed too.
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| Sorry this picture is a little blurry |
After the show we headed over to the Gate Way and ate dinner at Tucanos. Tucanos is this delicious brazilian restaurant that has this buffet of brazilian meats and when its your birthday month you get a free meal there, so of course we take advantage of that. Also when its your birthday they sing to you and give you ice cream.
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| I wanted Lance to take a picture when they were singing to me because they made me get on a chair and shake this tambourine while they sang to me but they went so fast that he couldn't get the picture in time. After we ate we walked around Gate Way (which is a big outdoor mall) for a little bit and we ended up in the Apple store looking at all their cool trinkets. We ordered the new Iphone 4s so we checked out what all the cool new features were on those.   |
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| Cute little Ben wanted in our picture |
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| Me and Baby Ben |
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| Lance's brother Ross and sister-in-law Megan |
Golden Birthday
I was told that when the age you turn that year on your birthday is the same number as the day of your birthday its called your golden birthday, well this past birthday I celebrated my golden birthday. I turned 25 on the 25th of October! It's crazy to think that I am 25 years old, where has the time gone. My birthday fell on a Tuesday this year which kind of stunk because that is the one day that Lance has class and work all day from 9am to about 930pm so I knew I wouldn't get to see him all day. Lucky for me I have wonderful family here in Utah who helped make the day great.
The day started off with me walking up to these typed up notes all over the house
I found them everywhere! Some were in clearly seen places like on the walls and doors but what was even more sweet and cute was he hide some of these notes in places around the house where he knew I'd be going to sometime during the day and would find one of these notes as a nice surprise. For example, he had one of these notes hidden in the food cupboard by the cereal because he knew I'd look there when I went to eat breakfast. Some other surprise places were in the shower, in the bathroom medicine cabinet, in the fridge, in the dryer, in my lap top, and one in my car. So my whole morning was filled with getting all these surprise notes, what a wonderful way to start my birthday from my sweet husband.
The birthday fun continued with my wonderful and very thoughtful sister-in-law Megan and my adorable nephew Ben taking me out to lunch to this little whole in the wall place called Sammy's.
It was a lot of fun hanging with Megan and Ben and very sweet of them to take me to lunch!
After lunch I had a meeting with the Provo College Counselor to get me fully enrolled in the Physical Therapy Assistant Program. Not a lot of fun and excitement there just paperwork to fill out but it did kind of get me excited to start school.
Then for dinner my wonderful cousin Mallory and her adorable little girl Hadlee took me out to dinner. Mallory was sweet enough to let me pick where to eat for dinner. I had been thinking of where I wanted to eat and for a while I had been craving sushi at this one Japanese restaurant. Now Mallory is a vegetarian and I think sushi is the last thing a vegetarian wants to eat, but she was so sweet and said we could go get sushi. So we met up at the Sushi restaurant and as we were telling the server what we wanted to eat I noticed that on the menu it said you can get a free sushi roll on your birthday. By the time I had recognized this deal I had already ordered and Mallory was just finishing up with her order when I pipped in and said, "It's my birthday do I get a free sushi roll"? The server just stood there and looked at me like I was lying or something and then she asked if she could see my ID, to verify I wasn't lying probably, so I gladly showed her and told her the free sushi roll I wanted. It was a great birthday dinner spent with Mallory and Hadlee! Unfortunately no pictures were taken to capture this fun birthday event.
So after dinner I went home and patiently waited for Lance to get home from school. Around 930 there was a knock on the door and when I opened it Lance was standing there with a birthday cake.
He had stopped at a Dairy Queen on his way home from class and picked up an ice cream cake, how cute. I've never had an ice cream cake before, it was delicious.
He told me that he had a birthday gift in the works and it wasn't done yet so I'd have to wait a little bit till I could get that gift. Well the gift came about a week after my birthday and this is what it was...
A very cute canvas of one of our wedding pictures. We had talked about getting one of these awhile back and it seemed like once we had narrowed down the pictures we had liked we kind of stopped talking about it. Apparently Lance just wanted my opinion on pictures and he was going to do the rest and give it to me for a birthday gift, so thoughtful.
Another cute little gift made by Lance was he took all our honeymoon pictures and videos and made one big video, and showed the finished product to me for my birthday. It was so sweet of him to do that, it turned out so good! He's got a talent in making these kinds of videos.
The rest of the night we just ate some ice cream cake and watched episodes of the office. It was a great golden birthday! I am so grateful for all the family and friends who thought about me and wished me a happy birthday. I am truly blessed to have wonderful friends, a wonderful family and in-law family and a very thoughtful, caring, loving husband.
The day started off with me walking up to these typed up notes all over the house
I found them everywhere! Some were in clearly seen places like on the walls and doors but what was even more sweet and cute was he hide some of these notes in places around the house where he knew I'd be going to sometime during the day and would find one of these notes as a nice surprise. For example, he had one of these notes hidden in the food cupboard by the cereal because he knew I'd look there when I went to eat breakfast. Some other surprise places were in the shower, in the bathroom medicine cabinet, in the fridge, in the dryer, in my lap top, and one in my car. So my whole morning was filled with getting all these surprise notes, what a wonderful way to start my birthday from my sweet husband.
The birthday fun continued with my wonderful and very thoughtful sister-in-law Megan and my adorable nephew Ben taking me out to lunch to this little whole in the wall place called Sammy's.
It was a lot of fun hanging with Megan and Ben and very sweet of them to take me to lunch!
After lunch I had a meeting with the Provo College Counselor to get me fully enrolled in the Physical Therapy Assistant Program. Not a lot of fun and excitement there just paperwork to fill out but it did kind of get me excited to start school.
Then for dinner my wonderful cousin Mallory and her adorable little girl Hadlee took me out to dinner. Mallory was sweet enough to let me pick where to eat for dinner. I had been thinking of where I wanted to eat and for a while I had been craving sushi at this one Japanese restaurant. Now Mallory is a vegetarian and I think sushi is the last thing a vegetarian wants to eat, but she was so sweet and said we could go get sushi. So we met up at the Sushi restaurant and as we were telling the server what we wanted to eat I noticed that on the menu it said you can get a free sushi roll on your birthday. By the time I had recognized this deal I had already ordered and Mallory was just finishing up with her order when I pipped in and said, "It's my birthday do I get a free sushi roll"? The server just stood there and looked at me like I was lying or something and then she asked if she could see my ID, to verify I wasn't lying probably, so I gladly showed her and told her the free sushi roll I wanted. It was a great birthday dinner spent with Mallory and Hadlee! Unfortunately no pictures were taken to capture this fun birthday event.
So after dinner I went home and patiently waited for Lance to get home from school. Around 930 there was a knock on the door and when I opened it Lance was standing there with a birthday cake.
He had stopped at a Dairy Queen on his way home from class and picked up an ice cream cake, how cute. I've never had an ice cream cake before, it was delicious.
He told me that he had a birthday gift in the works and it wasn't done yet so I'd have to wait a little bit till I could get that gift. Well the gift came about a week after my birthday and this is what it was...
A very cute canvas of one of our wedding pictures. We had talked about getting one of these awhile back and it seemed like once we had narrowed down the pictures we had liked we kind of stopped talking about it. Apparently Lance just wanted my opinion on pictures and he was going to do the rest and give it to me for a birthday gift, so thoughtful.
Another cute little gift made by Lance was he took all our honeymoon pictures and videos and made one big video, and showed the finished product to me for my birthday. It was so sweet of him to do that, it turned out so good! He's got a talent in making these kinds of videos.
The rest of the night we just ate some ice cream cake and watched episodes of the office. It was a great golden birthday! I am so grateful for all the family and friends who thought about me and wished me a happy birthday. I am truly blessed to have wonderful friends, a wonderful family and in-law family and a very thoughtful, caring, loving husband.
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