Birthday Madness

At the beginning of August my husband decided to kill me with events for his birthday. You see he is unlike any other man I know and gets really excited about his birthdays. Normally, he likes to do a few things but this year we had so many events that just happened to fall during his birthday week that Chad scammed me into all of them.

 

Now, if you know me... I have limits. I like alone time... I like staying in my house all weekend and not seeing a soul. So, mentally prepping for the mass amount of social interaction was pretty intense. Chad didn't really have a great birthday last year so this year I really wanted to make sure he had a blast and I can say without a doubt I think this was his best birthday ever.

 

I'm going to (try) and do a short recap of events: 

 

Thursday (Aug. 1st) we kicked off his birthday week with a Pepper show at the Showbox at the Market. Chad had a gig at Hard Rock that day as well for happy hour so since we were already going to be downtown and Pepper (one of our favorite Reggae bands) was playing right next door we decided to make a night of it. The show was AMAZING. Pepper did not disappoint but the photo booth at the venue did. Our pictures came out wet and blurry - how rude. If you go there save your $4 and give that machine a kick for me.

 

Check out my Instagram to see a kickass video from that night and don't forget to follow me to keep up with all my adventures in real time.

 

We had a little down time that weekend but Chad requested my special Stromboli pizza on Friday night and a dinner date to Outback (his favorite) on Saturday. Sunday we had plans to go to our friend Terras and have a movie marathon in her complexs private theater. I got really excited about this movie event and pretended that Chad was really turning 5 instead of 31. Que the ninja turtle plates, movie candy bar, popcorn, Mexican food, and a jumbo cookie cake.

 

All of which you can see on my Instagram.

 

All of our friends suck because they are all healthy and junk so hardly any cookie cake was eaten and we ended up coming how with 90% of all the candy. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!

 

Seriously, only the bottom half was eaten. Chad's name was still pretty much intact. Weak people WEAK. Needless to say I made him take it all to work with him so I couldn't eat any.

 

The next night was the BIG event. Chad opened for Long Beach Rehab at Rooney's in Woodinville and a ton of our friends came out. He got to meet Q-Ball from Sublime fame and play with Patrick and ex member of Bad Brains. For Chad... it was getting to play with some of his idols and he was smiling from ear to ear the entire night.

 

 

 

The next day (Aug. 6th) was Chads actual birthday and I took off work so we could spend the day together. We woke up, went to the gym, and then went to Denny's for his FREE Grand Slam breakfast that you get on your Birthday! (Just bring your ID to prove it at any Denny's location)

 

The rest of the day was spent playing video games and watching movies with a Sublime and Iration concert later that night. I kinda sorta punked out on the concert... I just couldn't deal with having to go stand in a field for 4 hours so Chad went with his bestie Jarred and had a great time.

 

His Birthday week was officially over and when it was all said and done I asked him if he had a good one. He point blank said this was the best week of my life so, I'll take that as a nod for wife of the year.

I love you Chad. Every one of your birthdays is the best to me because if you hadn't been born I wouldn't have my soul mate. You are my everything. My world. When your dreams happen mine do too and I'll always be there supporting you. You have a heart of Gold and I feel so lucky that you gave it to me. I cherish you, my sweet sweet Chad.

 

 

 



Bainbridge Island & Wedding Cake

Saturday CK had a show on Bainbridge Island here in WA (you  have to take the ferry from downtown Seattle and then cross the Sound to get to it!) If you don't know about this island it is so pretty and looks like the perfect little town that everyone leaves alone so not to ruin it. I swear I want to live there other than the fact that if I did it would take me over 2 hours to get to work...sooooo I'll just have to visit when I start to miss it.

I absolutely LOVE the view of Seattle from the Ferry and this was the first time I got to see it at night... It is so pretty and this is the best my IPhone camera could do.

Then Kyle got out his badass camera and took these:

I took a weekend off from Makeup. Don't judge me.

How absolutely amazing is this photo?

 I WANT THAT CAMERA!

The show was at Pegasus Coffee house which also served up some amazing food and had a full bar! It also had the craziest bench that reminded me of grade school with the round stool seats; however, these stool seats moved...and when I tried to sit down I ended up on the floor. Story of my life.

Evil stool..and the floor I ended up sitting on.

They also had this cake... It reminded me of our wedding cake and since CK got to eat and drink for free...we ordered a slice!

It was amazing but didn't hold a candle to our wedding cake.

This was more white chocolate icing and less butter cream - either way it was delicious. We also got a 3 cheese Beechers Panini on ciabatta bread and house made Italian sausage. It was FREAKING AMAZING. You might remember our other adventures with Beecher's cheese here: I'd Like to be Black please but I never even thought of having it grilled in between my favorite kind of bread. Yum Yum Yum.

Now time for some pictures that our friend Kyle took while we were there. He takes some really great pictures and is one of the funniest people we have met up here. Love that guy! PS. I want you camera!

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Why must you tease me?

CK & Kyle

Where is your favorite Coffee Shop?

Do you think CK should buy me a camera like Kyles?

Happy Birthday SKEEN SKEEN!

Catch up post from Last Friday Night in the words of Katie Perry.

It was my besties birthday!!!

My sweet coworkers at my old job made this sign up for her birthday!

Haley loves birthdays, like she does an obnoxious countdown until her "big day" arrrives! Haha I love her..She is one the best friends a girl could have so what better than to spoil her rotten.

It was also one of Chad's last shows in MS so a bunch of friends came out for the night. Haley thinks they were all there for her but really the don't even know who she is.

 Snap Shots below:

Drew & Chad

Love my Momma.

Amanda & I

Jake & Amanda

HOSH & Clint

Such a fun night Filled with the following:

Oatmeal Cookie and Patron shots! Yum.

She's special

I could talk a lot more about this night but lets just end it on a quick note since I'm stealing internet and blogging while the new Season of Dexter is ondemand right now.

More catching up tomorrow!

.:Happy Birthday:.

It's always nice to feel missed, wanted, and loved:

I'm Back guys!! I've been gone all weekend traveling all over the south and I'm trying to accept the fact that I am back at home again. The first stop on the trip was Clinton, MS where Chizzhad had a show on Friday night. My camera was left in the car by accident and being the extremely lazy person I am I did not go get it. (Don't judge me) That night was spent with HOSH and entailed searching for ice cream and watching G String Divas on HBO. We live really exciting fast paced lives and only watch the classiest of shows, as you can tell.

Saturday morning was spent in Jackson, MS with my Gran. We had breakfast and talked for a few hours (yes, hours) it was interesting though. She is 80 years old and full of stories that I've never heard of before. I'd like to think I learned a lot about her this weekend and getting to spend time with her always makes me happy. Saturday afternoon was spent with my mother... we went shopping and then went to my sisters house for a double birthday party for my sister and my niece! 

Hot pink and black icing is always a great idea...

Cherish your family even if they are all crazy

Three generations

I'm really enjoying getting to spend as much time with my family as I can right now. I have to say I've seen them more this summer than possibly my whole college career. Life gets so busy sometimes that you take people for granted and I'm working on being conscious of that and soaking up as much time as I can. Even if they do keep me from running and make me eat birthday cake. (That's the worst) After the birthday party my mom and I headed down to Laurel (That dirty stinkin town) and caught the tail end of Chizzys coffee house show at Jitters. Then on Sunday morning we loaded up the car to head to Chattanooga, TN for Chad's Showcase (Yes, that is the 3rd show this weekend- can you say "Hustler") but that is going to be on the next blog because my husband just said, "get your nose out of that laptop." So, I have to go watch a movie now and then it's bed time because we have a date with the gym at 5:30AM to run off all the junk we consumed this weekend (more on that later as well) Sweet dreams homies!

You can't hold hands going down the Slip N Slide

This past weekend was a load of fun and I think whatever was driving that "load" ran over me Sunday night.

 I literally passed out cold from alcohol exhaustion and I woke up looking like this:

Notice the couch and my shirt ain't the only things Red in the picture

Fabulous. I look just Fabulous.

What makes someone look this amazingly red on Monday morning you ask?
Let me explain...

It was CDK's birthday on Saturday so that of course means I have to plan a non-stop action packed adventured filled weekend right? (Can you tell how important holidays are to us yet?) Friday night my best friend and her man aka HOSH came down for surprise #1 Late Night Movie (Captain America) Then set up for Surprise #2 Early wake up Saturday morning to head to the BEACH for the day! That is after all Chads most favorite place in the whole world and he basically told me all week, "I better get to go to the beach one last time this summer..." Real subtle Chad... So, after an extremely late night Friday we got up bright and early Saturday and I said get up and get ready we are going to the Beach Birthday boy!!!

 But first you must open your present:

Birthday Boy got a new camera and an Amazon gift card (that he demanded)

Then we got into the car and I drove 3 hours to the beach (best wife ever award) and we were so excited that the water was blue and the sky was clear.

HOSH ps. Haley is a *New* Blogger! Follow her

The day was perfect other than the fact that there were jellyfish EVERYWHERE! I have never seen so many jellyfish in my life and I was terrified to get into the water. I mean people were literally coming out of the ocean with nets full of jellyfish bodies and burying them in the sand. It was like a horror movie! Eventually, Josh and Chad went out into the water and said the coast was clear (liars) so Haley and I went and sat in the waves since we were about to die from the heat. I hung around longer than Haley did and in the middle of bonding time with Josh and Chad I grabbed something that felt like a softball sized jelly ball. IT WASN'T a ball! It was a JellyFISH. I flipped out but thank God it didn't have stingers (legs/whatever) and I did not get stung.

None the less Terri was done with the beach, lets go.

We then ate this at my favorite Gulf Shores place PAPA ROCCAS:

Hello, my name is Terri and I'm a Pizzaholic.

We eventually drove back to Laurel and I hit my "nice wall" on the car ride home.
You see I only have so many hours out of a day that I can be nice and once I hit my wall, watch out the bitch is back. I hit this wall (hard) at about 6pm and about 45 miles from home lets just say I ALMOST bit the birthday boys head off. I held it in though and told them about the "wall" I just hit and told everyone not in the car not to look or think about me for a few miles. Did I mention I hate driving? I'd much rather be the drunk ass in the back seat napping or laughing my ass off. Anyways, crankypants made it home and we relaxed the rest of the night and made Chads birthday cookie cakes for the party on Sunday.

Cookie cake that I forgot to take a picture of BEFORE the cutting took place.

*It was supposed to be a vinyl record*

We woke up early on Sunday in order to pack the car up and head to Chads moms for his pool/slip n slide party. Lots of crazy things happened but I'm to tired to talk about them right now so I will leave you with some pictures:

Slip n Slide till you DIE.

Maybe that move right there is why I felt like I got hit by a truck the next morning?

So fresh and so Clean

Stop giving that girl in the middle drinks...

I'm ridiculous.

Get it boys

Ohh one more time!

It was a blast and I highly suggest homemade slip n slides!

Just be prepared to be crippled the next day.

I still have a lot to catch up on blogging. I'm going to try and crank some more out this week but for now I'm going to watch Rango with the hubs.

What do YOU like to do on your Birthday?

 

- I always cry on my birthday I have no idea why it just always sucks and it's not that I blame it on anyone but myself. My birthday just makes me cry.

Do you like Cookie Cakes or Real Cakes better?

- I LOVE real cake... cookies are good too but I want some yummy fluffy cake on my birthday. (It helps fight the crying I normally end up doing)