Last Birthday With My Last Name!

This Saturday, February 26th, was my 25th Birthday! It was a wonderful, wonderful day :-) I have to admit, I have been exhausted from waking up for bootcamp so early, so I was out cold at 10 pm - haha! I can't remember the last birthday I didn't stay up until midnight for - this is how I know I'm getting old!!!

My fiance knows how much I love celebrating my Birthday at midnight though - and he surprised me at 12:00 on the dot by waking me up to "Happy Birthday", wine, ice cream, a candle, and flowers and lots of kisses :-) Very sweet! It made for am amazing memory!

Because I went to bed so early, I woke up on my own pretty early. 7 AM! Patrick had everything bought to make me breakfast...his signature "Cowboy Breakfast", which consists of "Pigs in a Blanket" (mini turkey smokies wrapped in a croissant) and a breakfast burrito - it was very yummy!

I was then given my birthday gift...

Our monkey "Eiggam" presented it - lol - inside was a note saying "Let's go shopping for new sunglasses" So off we went to the mall in search of a pair of fashionable polarized sunglasses - which are not easy to find! We searched Macys, Burberry, Ilori, Nordstrom....we ended up going with these babies...

Love them! They make me pretty happy!!! One of my favorite lines from my favorite movie, Serendipity, "At least my knockoff says "Prada" yours says "Prado!" HAHA! These babies don't say "Prado" and they certainly aren't knockoffs - they are the real deal 8-) I kinda feel like a movie star in them!!!

Also in our shopping excursion I splurged on a fun hat for the Honeymoon :-) 

After the mall we were off to meet our florist. We got to see all the flowers I initially picked out - which was a good thing because what I initially chose wasn't exactly what I wanted and envisioned so we made some minor adjustments. Below is a preview of our flower pallet :-)

I got a special package in the mail on my Birthday - the bridal clutch I ordered from Etsy.com...I'm in love!!! I will show it because most people attending the wedding will never see it - I don't feel like I'm quite giving anything away by sharing it :-) It is so special to me though and will be a keepsake forever!!!

Before our dinner out Patrick surprised me with an appetizer...

Bacon wrapped scallops...SO GOOD! We then went to my favorite restaurant, Nakama, for some hibachi style dinner :-) BTW - If you haven't already checked it out, check out OpenTable.com when making reservations...We called and they told us they were booked but one reservation was open on the site...plus you get points that add up to gift certificates!!

We wrapped the day with a little down-time catching up on our DVR andddd polished off the ice cream from midnight - haha! If you haven't tried Cherry Garcia by Ben & Jerry I highly suggest it - you're definitely missing out!!!

Today the celebration continued but first we met with our priest for our final meeting before the wedding. You know, it's only 20 days away now!!!! Eeeek!

After the meeting we headed to my sisters house to celebrate mine and my niece Lulu's Birthdays...Lulu's birthday is the 28th :-) Fun times getting to blow out the candles with my Goddaughter :-)

I just love Birthdays - they are so much fun! I may get older but they never get old - haha! Thanks to everyone who showed me some Birthday love...I loved reading all the messages :-)

Next weekend is my Bachelorette party so it should make for a pretty good blog post ;-)
Until then...

XOXO