My Birthday(the re-cap)!

My birthday went very well. Lots of fun! I chose to go to a restaurant called Brio. Brad and I discovered the gem of a place, Brio, while out for drive a short distance away from our place back in July. That particular July afternoon we were set on finding a new place to eat at, we stumbled across Brio. I told Brad before we had even been seated that the place looked so promising I might choose it for my bday. Well I stuck to that decision! Brio it was for my birthday dinner.

We met my in-laws at the restaurant. We all enjoyed a nice meal. A meal that is fine dining in my opinion. The ambiance, the food, and the service are all top notch!  The food is of course the ultimate delicacy.  All 4 of us ordered something different and all four of us gave rave reviews of our individual entrée. A good time was had by all!

Afterwards we arrived back out our place for cake and ice cream.  I told Brad to surprise me with my cake this year. I simply gave a few guidelines and let him decide what to actually get.  He ended up choosing my ultimate favorite type of cake: red velvet!  Trust me if you haven't enjoyed a delectable slice of red velvet cake in Texas then you have been deprived! There's imitation red velvet in other states and there's the true Texas red velvet!  Yum!  Thick gooey cream cheese frosting and deep red moist cake reminiscent of a chocolate cake but better!  Can't ask for more when it comes to birthday cake!

Brad did well with the gift giving. And our "kids" did a good job too. My favorite part during the gift opening was little Simon sitting next to me intently watching me open "his" gift.  I'm sure he picked it out himself! ;)  Piper kept trying to play with everything. The card, the envelope, the paper, the tissue paper....she wasn't picky, she wanted to play with all of it.  Brad scored some major points with the cards!  He did an excellent job choosing the cards, one from him and one from the pets.  His card blew me away. I've read it a couple times since as it was so touching to me. I now have a brand new RED camera!  I go through cameras...don't I? In hindsight the last camera was not a good choice! The touch screen wasn't a fun feature. It took one great pic following that one great pic up with 9 mediocre to not so mediocre pics. The old camera annoyed both of us! After doing quite a bit of research I narrowed it down then told Brad to choose one of them to be a gift in the not so distant future. We have yet to truly try out the new camera. I've taken only a few pics.  It'll get some use coming up next Friday(Piper's 1st birthday).