Birthday Eve

The night before Alex's birthday we celebrated by going ice skating with Nick, Julia, Jeff, Sam, Tara and her roommate. It was fun and Alex got to show off his ice skills. We stopped by the hospital after for drinks and finished off the night with fudge cupcakes at our house. Thanks for joining us, friends. The next day Shauna made a great lasagna dinner and Dana, Sara, and Tatum came up. Cute boy. Happy Birthday, Love.

Luxury McDonalds

Alex and his buddies are studying at the nicest McDonald's I've ever been to in the United States. (I say United States because all the McDonalds I saw in England were nice like this one, but McDonald's isn't seen as really cheap there..) Lots of stainless steel, light fixtures, logo waterfall, wood trim and free Wifi. Alex and I tried the new asian place by our house tonight for date night. It was pretty good. We will probably both get something different next time, but it made us excited to move somewhere with a real China town and lots of good restaurants. 

Birthday Month

Alex's birthday is just a few days away from Valentine's Day. Our wedding anniversary is within a few days of my birthday. Its interesting how these events matched up. Anyway, I've been doing the twelve days of birthday for Alex and its been pretty fun for me. On the first day of birthday Alex got some resistance bands for his P90x workouts. I was planning on saving those for later but I felt bad that Alex was using his accounting books for weights.

So far his other daily gifts have included: wool socks, Ritter Sport chocolate, a big bag of jerky and turpentine for his paint brushes. I hope he's enjoying the gifting ritual as much as I am. I do love to give gifts!

Last night we went to Ruth's Chris in Park City with Mark and Shauna. This event has been a long time coming--finishing Alex's mission, getting into the Accounting Program, giving a talk in church in his home ward etc.. Alex has been reminding Mark to take him for about as long as I've know him. It was really really good. Shauna and I got the barbecue shrimp and Alex and Mark split the Porterhouse for Two.

We went in between Mark and Alex's birthdays so it was extra special... and we got TWO complimentary desserts... banana creme pie and bread pudding. A feast to be remembered.