Birthday Party!

For my birthday, I decided to just invited everyone on Facebook to come and join me for some good times at the wine bar on Saturday night. We had a blast.
There may have been an insinuation that someone should bring cupcakes.
I love this picture. We were going for a group shot and I moved John's hand down toward the table and knocked over a water glass. I'm staring at the glass, John is asking me WTF? and Steve is gasping in horror. Excellent.
Kimberly looks so smart with her brown hair.
Erin was all fancy.
JJ + KY
Gavin with the lovely ladies..
We are pretty cute in the parking garage. Thanks to Erin for the picture and the ride home.
Once we got home, John ran out for emergency hamburgers. A little bit later, we kind of wanted more emergency hamburgers so I went with him. I brought the cat too. Why I was so certain she wanted to go on a hamburger run, I 'm not sure, but she purred the whole way.

Fashion Friday

TGIF! While work-Kim is off enjoying spring break, I have been super busy covering both of our desks for the past couple days. Usually after Body Blitz, I come back to the office, shower, catch up the early morning emails, and then go comb my hair and put on a bit of makeup. Yesterday I never got caught up on the email part. Not that it mattered how cute I was, because I never left my desk. I was cute earlier in the week though! I love this skirt, but it wears me out. The shape of it is very flattering, but it's built in curves mean I have to take very tiny steps and if I have to take an unplanned step up, I look kind of silly.
But I can't resist wearing it, because I feel so old-school girly in it. Also, the detail on the back is adorable. These shoes are the new love-of-my-closet-life.
I think I've mentioned before that I love the stone Labradorite. I especially love to pair it with black and denim... My mom got me a gorgeous necklace and earring set for my birthday so this outfit worked out perfectly for their debut!

Birthday Bliss.

I had the most surprising and sweet birthday. My mom sent me a box o' goodies on Monday full of purses and jewelery, things every girl must have. On my actual birthday, as is tradition here in my little work pod, I came in to find my cube decorated from top to bottom. When she arrived, Char brought me flowers. Shortly thereafter, John came by with a Victoria's Secret gift card box and my favorite chocolate covered caramels. I got a call from the front desk to come up and pick up another set of flowers, from John, and BFF Kim had dropped a bag of goodies as well. In there was the best card ever, our traditional champagne of choice, and a pretty lingerie set! and even though my hands were full, Kate topped it off with a Starbucks card!
Feeling lucky beyond belief, I headed back to my cube and later in the afternoon, ANOTHER set of flowers came from birthday buddy Joi. Then, Barb stopped by with a gift certificate to our work bar. wow, friends, wow! About 3:00, I went to get a cup of coffee and while I was standing in line the guy behind me asked about my tiara and when I told him it was my birthday he said "Well, there's a special today where I will buy the birthday girl's coffee!" So sweet and unexpected.
When I got to dance, Carrie had made me a special birthday cupcake.
All that, plus about 150 Facebook messages, I am so lucky.

Another one bites the dust

Awesomely and unintentionally timed to coincide with the passing of my 35th year :) I love this class and these girls.

2 Word Wednesday

Happy Birthday! ..to me!

*Wordless Wednesday will resume next Wednesday. This could not go unspoken!

and...scene.

Today is my last day as a 35 year old. I am so, so, SO grateful for everything that has happened this year. Both John and I are healthy, happy, with good jobs, a nice house, and happy pets. I could not ask for anything more. Also, my life is very fun. Here's some of what was packed into my 35th year...

Kayaking
Motorcycling
Fishing
Fun trips to Pendleton
Epic Road Trip 2010: NoDak and Back
The Coast
Showgirl Staycations (this one too!)
Spring in the woods
Mexico!
Snowshoeing
Random Hotel Adventures
Warrior Dash
Fun with my mom
I entered 2 photo contests. and won!
I dressed cute
I had a successful year of keeping fit with regular Mt. Tabor jogs, morning circuit training, Tease and Tone and finished with the extra challenge of Body Blitz.

Today, my Body Blitz students gave me a gift certificate for a massage and I had my work review.

This has been a really fantastic year. 36? Bring it.

Weekend Recap

We got a lot done this weekend, but not a lot of photos to prove it... We recently decided to join the future and get a new flat screen tv. The goal with this was to move our way out of Comcast and into Netflix. In doing this, we also acquired an Xbox with Kinect. On Friday, a new game came in the mail and we spent our evening with a bottle of champagne doing a little bit of video game bowling. This is probably where you will find us on any Friday for the foreseeable future, we loved it. The cats think that we are crazy. We made a trip to the Comcast office on Saturday to sever the tie. Afterward, we went for a bit of lunch and little beer before heading home to get ready for Saturday night.
OK, not all the beers were little...
I can't believe that I don't have any pictures of us all dressed up on Saturday, but we got all dressed up to go have dinner with Robert, whose lovely wife threw him a surprise birthday dinner!
On Sunday, we completed the transformation of The Ritz (our guest room) into The Ritz/Home Gym. We put the bed frame together so there is new storage available and hooked up the old tv to a new dvd player and now we have a sweet new place for me to spend my mornings with Jillian! Also, we took the old tv and a few other undesirables to Goodwill (man, that feels awesome). After all that work, we stopped for a little inspiration to get through the remaining afternoon tasks of fishtank cleaning, floor washing, and roast cooking.
What a great way to start my BIRTHDAY WEEK!