Dad's Birthday Sushi Adventure

For my Dad’s birthday this year we got the idea to take him to a sushi restaurant because he’d never had it. I loved the idea because a.) sushi is one of my favorite things to eat and b.) shopping for Dad can be hard sometimes haha. Plus seeing him try sushi would be a fun experience as well! For a moment I thought the plans were falling through because things kept coming up, and I thought we were going to have to do the dinner a different day and just hang out at their house for the evening. On my way over to their house though they called and said the plans were back on so I turned around and we all met up at Chloe’s Asian Gourmet.
I was a little nervous because Dad had no idea what he wanted or what would sound good, so I decided on a sort of sampler platter that had a little of everything along with a coconut shrimp roll because its my favorite and I’d been craving it. Mom and Duke ordered a cooked dish called the “happy family” to share which sounded so appropriate. Everything was so delicious!! Dad was very brave although hesitant at first, and tried everything, even the eel. I think everyone liked the coconut shrimp the best, especially Duke who loves fried things haha. It had tempura so of course it was right up his alley.
My family is so silly and fun, Duke got the giggles reliving an experience he had with a friend at school which made us all crack up as well, and we were all laughing until our sides hurt. I had such an awesome time, and I think everyone did, so I’m glad our plans ended up working out! Happy Birthday, Dad!!

26 times around the sun

Honestly, my 26th birthday was something I kind of dreaded. For some reason I had it in my head that no one would remember it was my birthday since I didn’t have Facebook to send out that helpful reminder anymore. My Mom had surgery on her shoulder two days before so I couldn’t hang out with her like I normally did. Plus it meant I was halfway through my twenties and I thought the older you got the less people would care.
Boy, was I wrong!
Silly me, I forgot I am surrounded by lots of wonderful people who love me just as much as I love them! Everyone came together to make me feel super special and loved and I ended up having one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had.
I worked that morning and my regulars gave me extra tips to show love. Barry, my coworker helpfully announced to everyone it was my birthday which I appreciated because I don’t really want to toot my horn about my birthday, but I do want to feel like the center of the universe haha. Anne, my boss(I mean these people are also my good friends, but I for some reason want to announce I work with them first haha so you know how I know them) showed up to relieve me from my shift with the most beautiful flowers and chocolate!
I went home to let Steve out for a bit, then Sophie showed up and we went out to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, Christopher’s. We decided to get bloody Mary’s to celebrate, and had a delicious meal. My sandwich was on the house their treat, and Sophie treated me to extras. Then we went to the mall and tried on makeup at Sephora :)
Finally I met back up with Anne and Barry at a restaurant in the Oregon District called Corner Kitchen. Anne treated me to poutine(friggin delicious) and a pear drink, and Barry alerted the Staff it was my birthday and they brought me fried dough with berries and chocolate dipping sauce with a candle in it and the whole restaurant sang Happy Birthday to me! I don’t think that’s ever happened to me, and I felt so special. It was such a treat!
I also got loving phone calls, video chats, and messages, from family and friends who couldn’t be with me but wanted to let me wish me happy birthday. I want everyone to know I am so grateful you’re all in my life and I love you all so much! Thank you for making my 26th birthday so amazing!!

I'm a Quarter of a Century!

It's my 25th birthday today!! I can't believe I'm this old. I had such a great day, and its kind of turned into a birthday week really. This past weekend Sophie and Lynne came down to visit and we went out to eat, then next weekend I'm hanging out with Jared and my parents. Today I came into work and turned on the light and the whole office was decorated with balloons and streamers! My boss Danielle is really the best, she even made me a cake and brought me a tiara. I really feel loved all around. Jared got me animal crossing and a nintendo 3ds xl for my birthday and gave it to me early and I played it on my break and even the little characters celebrated my birthday. I have a hundred million posts on facebook to get to so I'm gonna keep this post short and sweet and kinda jumbled and all over the place because yay birthday! and yay Sophie just showed up!  

Real quick- funny story about these awesome balloons, a customer returned them a few weeks ago and I got them for $1 each on sale. I took them to Kroger last night got them filled up and carried the huge obnoxious things around the store with me as we shopped. Got them all the way home and then the 5 got stuck on the trim overhang roof of the house, popped off the string, and floated away into the night. I was devastated!! Haha. Then I ran to party city after work today and found they had the same kind so I bought one, and all was well again, and Jared helped me take some outfit photos.

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 Sweater - Show and Skeleton Sweater(Modcloth)
Pants - Pac Sun
Socks - Sock Cardigan
Boots - Doc Marten
Jacket - Forever 21 two years ago.

Bufford wanted to "help" me haha.

He kind of just wants to destroy the balloons haha.

Its very hard to get them to go on the correct direction...

Helpy helperton again.

Bufford's Birthday

Since we adopted Bufford, we don't know his actual date of birth. So we like to celebrate it on the day we adopted him(May 10th). It's been three years since I found this smelly ding dong on Craig's list, making him 5 years old. We love him so much, and I'm so happy we found him.

Birthday Biscuit!

Blurry Birthday Boy.

Bufford's Birthday!

Today marks one year since we've adopted Bufford J. Carmikal(yes I made him a full name for when he's in trouble. No I don't know why he has a different last name, I just liked the ring of it)! Since we don't know his actual date of birth, we're celebrating it as his birthday. So he is officially 3 years old. To celebrate I bought him some special treats, including a tough new spiked collar, a "bully bone", and a birthday biscuit!

Here are some photos of our little celebration of our furry beast.

Lol! I didn't have time to buy birthday hats so we recycled new year's ones and Jared taped over "new". hahaha

Pouting, party pooper.

 Lol! didn't enjoy the hat.

Blowing out his candle!

Yummy!