My Birthday!

We had a rather celebratory weekend this past weekend.  I had an enjoyable birthday.  I basically celebrated 3 days in a row.  So my grandpa Pete would approve!  He had this thing about celebrating his birthday in at least 3 different ways each year.  Perhaps now that I think about it I celebrated 2 different times.  So maybe I still need to get in one more small way of celebrating! 

On Saturday night we gathered with family at the Cheesecake Factory.  Yum!  It was quite the long wait but worth it.  When we got back to our place, I opened some gifts.  I now have plenty of recipe reading ahead of me!  I also opened some earrings which I then promptly showed to Simon.  That little stinker lunged at the earring thinking it was edible.  Good thing I had a firm hold on the earring because Simon nearly snatched it like he would a Scooby snack! Lol!

Last night Brad and I went to the restaurant he took me to for our first date.  We were doing a double celebration!  We hadn't yet made to Uncle Julio's to celebrate the 4 year anniversary of our first date, so last night we celebrated that and my birthday.  We of course took the camera along.  Brad asked the waiter to take a pic of us together at one point.  Then after hearing it was my birthday the waiter brought out some fried ice cream with a candle.  It was Brad's first time having fried ice cream.  Can you tell he's from TX folks?  In AZ there's no way you would get into your adult years without having fried ice cream at a Mexican food restaurant.  Am I right?  Zonies like Mexican food, fried ice cream, and cheese crisps!  I joked with Brad at dinner that fried ice cream and cheese crisps are the only culinary claims to fame for AZ.  LOL!

Here's some pics from our night...My personal fave is the one with Brad biting into the pepper.  It was super funny!