Well, for my birthday Bryan took spent all of the day before with me. Since my birthday fell on a Sunday this year, we slept in, then he took me to IHop to enjoy my birthday Breakfast! Naturally I got French Toast because why would you get anything else?! After that we decided to head down to Traverse Mountain Outlets. We looked around for a long time, and I found a few things that I liked.
When we finished hanging out around the mall, we decided to go back home for a little while until we needed to leave for Mark Bulloughs reception. We went to his reception and it was good to see him so happy. We also got to see Nicole Newbold and Nicole Merrill. We didn't stay long because Bryan had made reservations for Tepanyaki.. mmmmmm… yummy!
We both could not wait! Bryan had never been there before, so it was even a present to himself in a way! You can't tell from my picture, but the food was amazing! Their salmon is to DIE for. Obsessed. When we got home we had a nice lazy night with some of my favorite ice cream! Pistachio. Don't be afraid of the green color, because it is pure happiness. ALSO, this boy gave me a beautiful display of red roses! I seriously couldn't believe how big of a bouquet it was! They were gorgeous. Sunday morning Bryan made me Breakfast. We went to church, and left a bit early because I was starting to feel sick :/ Yes, sickly on my birthday, but what can you do? Thankfully it wasn't too bad that day! When it was finally time to leave, we drove to South Jordan to eat dinner with The Frandsens! Mamma Frandsen made me beef in a black bean sauce, which is so yummy. I really need to learn how to make that meal someday! Later that night we had Chocolate Cake with Raspberry filling, and presents! Janet and Rick got me a really nice 0 degree sleeping bag, some winter boots, and a rack to hold my scarves! All very nice and needed gifts! Erika and Sammy got me nail polish and candy!
Finally, Bryan gave me my beautiful beautiful Greg Olsen painting that I was dying to have! The one we ended up picking is called "Take My Hand". Seriously, it is gorgeous. The last gift he got me was a necklace, and yes - I picked it out :) Thank goodness this boy knows how to get me gifts ;) Besides getting sick, it was a wonderful day! I'm grateful for a sweet husband who puts up with my crap, and a fantastic family that I was lucky enough to marry into.
That night Jordan came to spend the night as well! I'm glad that I got to have some sister time with her on my birthday. We watched a movie and hung out all night. She also spent most of the day with me the day after since I was sicky and didn't really want to be home alone all day!
I was worried that I was sick with Strep Throat because that is definitely how it felt. When I was growing up, I used to get it ALL of the time. I decided I had better go to the doctor because if it is strep, you need antibiotics to treat it, or you can be sick for awhile. I really wanted to be getting back to work quickly especially since I am FINALLY done with school, I got my raise and I want to be proving that I can be a good manager. I can't really do that if I am sitting at home in bed, sick. I went, and the quick strep test was negative. My doctor gave me a prescription to be safe. If I got better, I could chuck it. And if I didn't, I could go fill the prescription. He is pretty awesome. He tried to make everything as easy as possible for his patients.
Tuesday, I went back to work. Angela was really surprised that I showed up. She really didn't' want me passing my sickness around, but I felt like I had started getting sick the Friday evening before, so I kind of figured by this point I wasn't contagious anymore. I realized I had a mask from the doctors office, so to be funny I put it on. Ron thought it was pretty awesome. I took it off at one point because it was making me hot, but then Ron told me I needed to put it back on ha. He didn't want me passing my sickness around either. I'm sure I wouldn't have even if I didn't wear the dang thing. Please enjoy my cuteness in this mask. Gosh, I'm cute.
Birthday #2
So, because we didn't spend my birthday with my family, we still needed to see them! My mom was worried that she wouldn't have enough time to prepare for my birthday on my actual birthday because things had been a bit busy for her at work. We decided that we would go to her house to celebrate the sunday after!
That Sunday, we showed up and Mom had made dinner for us! Dinner was really good! She mad Calzones. The funny thing was that Lauren and Lizzy would not eat them, so one of the girls had pizza bites and the other had pizza pockets… Kind of ironic. Grandma and Grandpa Colby even came! After dinner mom had a cake for me and ice cream! Josh was a little bum and switched the numbers to say that I was "32". The girls also had me wear a princess birthday crown all night. I was told that I was not to take it off the wholeeeee night! Once we were done eating all the goodies, we went downstairs to play Apples to Apples. You better believe that I won! :) I don't know if other families do this, but at the end we read the cards that we won, and they are supposed to describe you. As you can see I am natural and wordily…. Virtuous and Shallow, and lastly Perfect! Not sure what the cards are trying to tell me exactly!We had a great night together! Jordan got me a very cute button up shirt which I had wanted. Mom picked out a lace slip, necklace and shirt. Lauren and Lizzy picked out a necklace! I'm glad that things are feeling normal again with my family. There seems to be less contention and sadness. It's sad that our parents marriage is ending, but I'm grateful that everyone is doing okay and that we all still love each other more than ever. It's definitely going to take time to heal, but I am grateful for them!
