I've been fortunate to be able to celebrate with several people over the last few weekends. 2 weeks ago, I met up with Courtney and Kara to have a girl's day out and celebrate my b-day. We started the day with brunch at The Cheesecake Factory. I love their brunch, it's so yummy. After brunch, we headed to the movies to see The Change-Up. It was a cute movie. . . a little predictable, but still really funny.
Last Saturday morning, I met up with my mom at the Coach outlet. She let me pick out whatever purse I wanted for my birthday gift. I knew I wanted a new black leather purse and found just what I was looking for. After I headed home, Shawn had a surprise waiting for me. A while back he had asked me what I wanted to do for my b-day. . .a night out with friends or a date night with him. I told him, I wanted a date day with him. Rarely, do we ever get to hang out all day without Emily. So he gave me a heads up and said he had a babysitter all lined up for Saturday. That was all he said up until Saturday morning. Once Saturday arrived he told me that we were going to drop Em off at his parent's house in Burleson and then we would be spending the day and night in Fort Worth. He originally had lunch and dinner reservations, but after feeling a little bit rushed in the morning we decided to cancel the lunch reservations and instead just have a relaxed afternoon to do whatever we wanted. After dropping Em off around noon, we headed to do a little shopping in Fort Worth. Shawn had given me my birthday present from Em that morning thinking I would be able to enjoy them this weekend. . .a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses. The ones he got for me were a little big on me, so I decided to try on some other ones to see if they fit better. We found a Sunglass Hut in a nice shopping center and we went in to exchange them. I ended up getting some of the aviator sunglasses. This was definitely something I never thought I would get, but Shawn talked me into them. It's nice getting things for gifts that you would never normally buy yourself. I think they make me look pretty cool. :) Definitely, not 30 when I wear them. Anyways, after we exchanged them, we had some lunch at Blue Mesa. It was so nice to be able to sit and enjoy some food and drinks and just talk. We stayed for a couple of hours just hanging out. After a little bit more shopping (it was tax-free weekend), we made our way to our hotel. We stayed at the Omni hotel in downtown Fort Worth. It was really nice. It was right across from the water gardens so we ventured over there to walk around. It was sooo hot though, so we decided pretty quickly to just go up to the hotel pool bar and hang out. We stayed there for several hours before going back up to the room to shower before dinner. We had 8:00 reservations at Mercury Chophouse. When we arrived they said it would be about a 10 minute wait. . .35 minutes later, we finally sat down. It was restaurant week, so we were able to get a 3 course meal for $30/each. The food was good, but overall we were disappointed in the service. We left dinner around 10:30 and knowing we needed to get up early to go pick up Em, we decided to just head back to the hotel. We both fell asleep as soon as our heads hit the pillow. The next morning we got up and headed back to Burleson to pick Em up. We found out that for the most part she didn't sleep the entire time we were gone, but that's a whole other post.
Finally, for my actual birthday weekend we started by going to my parent's house on Saturday night. My mom made my favorite for dinner - steak, twice baked potatoes and salad and of course chocolate cream pie. We enjoyed an afternoon of swimming and sun!
The Cousins watching a movie
Sunday morning, I woke up to Shawn making one of my favorite breakfasts - French Toast. Then at lunch he surprised me with cupcakes. He even taught Emily to say Happy Birthday Mommy. Overall, I had a great 30th birthday month. And the celebrating will continue on as we head to CA on Monday.
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