Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The Makings of a Perfect Day... or Week!

Bahaha. Yeah Right!

I turned the big 2-7 this week and am happy to say that I had the BEST birthday ever!! I think the older you get the less you care about your birthday. That having been said, you expect less so when you do get something you're more appreciative and feel pretty darn cool. That's how I felt this last week, at least. On Tuesday, we went out to dinner at the Rainforest Cafe. We thought it would be fun for Lily with all the fish, fake elephants and gorillas, etc. Boy were we wrong!! She LOVED it at first, but we forgot there was a fake tropical thunderstorm every 20 minutes or so where all the lights flashed and there was thunder,etc. That freaked her out a little bit. By the second time it happened, she was trying to unbuckle herself out of the high chair and kept saying, "bye, bye..." We ate real quick and were sure to be out of there before the third storm hit. :)
On Friday, Lorin took a half day so we could really celebrate then. My mom kindly agreed to watch Lily so Lo and I could bowl, hit a movie and grab dinner. We went bowling (which was SOOO FUN!) and called my mom to check on Lily afterwards. She woke up way too early from a nap and had been crying for the last 20 minutes wandering the house and calling, "mommy." We decided we should go and pick her up and finish the date later. Fortunately, we were able to do just that and hit CPK that night and the movie the next day. We saw "Wolverine," which was pretty darn cool. It was just so much fun, and I'm glad I got to spend that time with Lily and Lorin. I was also able to celebrate with both fams which is always so great!! I've decided that I had everything I could want this past week....

Who said birthdays get more lame as you got older? Not mine!!!

Dinner with Lily & Lo
CPK (mmm, yummy!) with Lo
Bowling (AND having the highest score)
Watching Wolverine with Lorin
Cheesecake Factory with the fam
Craft Supplies from Lo
Got chalked by my Laurels
Dinner AND my fav ice cream cake at the Merkleys
A ROSS Gift card
A Target gift card
New dishes from my mom
Pei Wei's with Jess
Lots of fun presents from everyone
Birthday wishes from Family & Friends

What more could I ask for?!!?

NOTHING!!!

It was PERFECT!!

6 comments:

Adam and Jessica Cooley said...

So glad you had a great birthday!!! Even happier I was able to help you celebrate just a little.

Anonymous said...

sounds like you had a GREAT birthday:) I saw your little comment about the Bachelorette and i'm totally on the same page as you. I think she is reallly digging Jesse!! But yeah, next week's episode looks really wierd!!

Kiera and Joe said...

Happy 'late' birthday my fellow June 9th'er!! It looks like you ate as many calories as I did :) Aren't birthday's the best??!! Glad you had a good day!

Annie said...

Happy Late Birthday! Sounds like it was a blast!

Kristi said...

How fun! Happy Birthday! I'm glad you had a good one!

scott and linds said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! that sounds like a really great birthday!! ;) You did all kinds of fun stuff- i was laughing a bit about the "rain storms"- i'm a grown adult and I still don't like the rain storms in that place!! glad you had such a great birthday ;)