A Birthday Weekend Extravaganza

Today Lou turned 33 years old!  I can't believe this is the 12th birthday of his that we have celebrated together. We have had a very fun birthday weekend. We started his birthday weekend early. I took Friday off of work so that we could have a real date. Josh had a birthday party for his friend Isaac. Josh was so extremely excited, the party was at Chuck E Cheese. Since Josh had the birthday party, Kira got to join us for dinner on our date. We decided on Thai food. We went to Thai Mango, it was really good. I just love curry. (Something I never would have thought I'd ever say when I was a child). Kira was a little disappointed in our choice for dinner (though she loved the egg rolls). Kira wrote in her journal " I went to a weird restaurant with Mom and Dad"  We had some time before we had to pick up Josh so we decided to get some birthday ice cream at the Creamery. We all LOVE Creamery ice cream. We even called my Dad to rub in the fact that we were eating delicious Creamery ice cream!

After we picked up Josh, got home, and put the kids to bed we got a movie from Red Box.  It was some movie called Like Crazy. It sounded really good and had great potential but it turned out to be a dud. I usually love most romantic type movies that take place in London, half of this movie took place there but it was sill a dud.  The idea was good but they didn't really do anything with it. It did reinforce in me that I really really want to live in London some day. It saddens me at times that we are not even close to that goal but I feel so strongly that we need to that I know we somehow are taking the right steps to get there.

Saturday we made root beer. I wanted to do something fun that we hadn't done before. I saw Hires root beer extract at Day's and had to make it.

Kira and Josh loved making root beer they felt like they were in Professor Snape's potion class! (In case anyone was wondering yes that is the same Mr. Funny shirt I got for Josh when he was 3). We had fun playing with neighbors in the afternoon, Lou and I sneaked off to Barnes and Noble and then I made homemade chili for dinner, to match the stormy weather outside.

After two days of celebrating, today was finally the day, Lou's birthday! I made Lou a yummy breakfast of pancakes and bacon. I had to go practice for a duet I was playing in Sacrament meeting and then had an appointment with the bishop so the morning was a little busy.  (I got another piano calling so now I am primary pianist and ward choir pianist haha) Lou said the closing prayer in Sacrament so between that and my piano piece it was a fun Sacrament meeting for Lou.

After church Kira and I made a yummy marble cake for Lou. We had a dinner of steak, fries and salad. It was yummy (Lou made it, he is the steak maker in our family).  We had our neighbors/friends Mike and Maegen and their daughter Aneesa over for Lou's cake. It was really fun having them over. (yay we were social with people in our neighborhood).

Overall I think Lou had a fabulous birthday weekend.  I'm just happy to have Lou in my life. He is seriously the greatest guy for me.