Peter was still working at the Academy on his birthday, it was one of his last days. So I surprised him at work with a cake. I timed it so I'd get there when he was with about 8 colleagues, but no-one knew it was his birthday or that last day working with him was 2 days away. It was SO AWKWARD! They all appreciated the cake once they knew, but had no idea who the girl with the cake was when I walked in. I hope he at least appreciated the effort and embarrassment.
Our Ward Halloween party was on my birthday. I wanted to go because had such great kid costumes (compliments of my sister, Anne). We were Princess Peach and Luigi from Mario Brothers.
We went to a nice wedding of Alan and Britta DeMartini. It had nothing to do with our birthdays, but still fun to get dressed up and go out for food and dancing with friends.
My gift was that Peter surprised me and took me to see miXtape, and 80's musical downtown. Shows that he knows me well, dancing and 80's music! My favorite things!
We loved it so much, er, I loved it so much, I talked my sibs and spouses into going. It was so much fun! I recommend it to everyone. And sitting next to Miles is a great way to see it too, he was laughing/singing the whole time!
The food was amazing!
It took a lot of hands to make the meal.
Our beautiful little city on a Sunday afternoon. Definitely not the same weather Peter and his friends had when they celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada.
The Polish Festival was the same weekend down the street, so we walked over and some of my favorite food!
Basically, a whole lot of hanging and food at our place.
Since Monday is our day off, it's a good night for a Date Night. We had the idea to make our movie night more San Diego-ish and watch Date Night down at the Crown Point. I made dinner to-go, and we watched this movie with a good dinner and an amazing view of Mission Bay. Great night and hilarious movie!! We laughed so hard! I'm definitely on the Tina Fey bandwagon and think anything she does these days is gold. And we've been married just barely long enough to think a lot of the married jokes were pretty spot-on. Two thumbs up!
We still smile like that to each other.
This year - Dinner out in Coronado on Saturday night...
Sunday afternoon at Balboa Park touring the International Houses...
...And the fanciest dinner I've ever made that night.
In doing the dishes from our Mexican Chicken Casserole, we realized we've had Mexican food every-night for a 7 days! Cafe Coyote in Old Town, Taco Salad, Carne Asada Tacos (Costco's meat is amazing!), Salsa Chicken, leftovers... We've still got Fish Tacos and a Nacho Dip in the line up for next week.
Two of my favorite things in life-
Not sure where this picture was taken, but this is a common
So excited about camping, we bought a tent this week, and watched a movie in it. Going to be so fun!
I'm considering going back to school for a Master's in Communication Disorders to become a Speech Pathologist. I'm excited and scared about the prospects of higher education! It would be about 3 years, and we'd probably have a baby during that time (eek!). But there are some amazing Pro's to it- Use my Linguistics Degree and my brain, make better money with benefits and paid time off, not be bored when I'm an old empty-nester. Or do I just envy Peter for looking into schools and want to be like him. Either way, what do you think?
We had just gotten back from our day-off errands. We were snacking when we heard the crunch in the front. Cars often get swiped on our Street, so we went out to see who's it was. And it was Peter's 8-month old car (well, it's a '95, but it's only 8-months old to us)! The girl wasn't even going too fast, but moved the Civic 20 ft. down the road, with the E-Brake on and it's a gonner. Her car too. She was decently nice, has good insurance, and it will be fine. We've got the rental that day and hope to hear what the amount we get it. We were surprised how un-angry we were. Although we think it was a hate crime, notice she only hit the Canadian side of the car? Not the US side. And on Victoria Day!
Then, 18 hours later, I'm walking laundry out and while holding the laundry basket, my hand swipes the broken breaker box that is always cutting everyone. I drop the laundry and look at my hand to see the cut. A second later I'm panicking on my hands and knees looking for the diamond that got ripped out! So sad! We have insurance to protect this also, so again, it's ok. Just inconvenient. And I'll be ring-less for a couple weeks. Sad.
