It's been a great birthday weekend! Friday I went with Sara to do some running around. We had lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings, and then I picked up my new charm. Check it out:
After that, we went to a new Target and Walmart. I bought some new makeup and a couple of books, and Sara bought a really cute new purse. It was a lot of fun, it was really great of her to take off the day from work to hang out with me!
Friday night was the Huey Lewis and the News concert. I have to say...even though they did NOT sing my favorite song (more on that in a second...) it was by far THE BEST concert I've seen of his. It was Andrew's first time to see him in concert, and I think he was pleasantly surprised at how awesome it was. We had really great seats, and it was a VERY late night. Huey Lewis and the News still know how to put on a show, though...and Huey is pretty hot! He doesn't look/sing/act like he's in his 60's. We had a lot of fun! Then TODAY, I got another Tweet from them saying thanks for coming out. So I asked how come they never sing "Stuck With You" in concert, and they responded right back and said that they DO perform it, but clearly just never when they've been in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and they will try to change that for next time. I said that I would be expecting to hear it next time they were in Texas, haha. So, it was SUPER COOL to be talking to someone from the band, even if I didn't get to hear my song. Hopefully I'll catch them singing it NEXT time around. =)
So anywho, we got home really late that night, and we ended up sleeping SUPER late Saturday: I woke up at 1pm, and Andrew got up at 2pm. We relaxed a little here, then we headed out to go over to my parents' house to celebrate my birthday with them. Andrew learned how to make my favorite childhood dish (cheese souffle, although it's not REALLY a souffle), and we had fun playing Scene It and visiting with my family. We got home after 1:00 in the morning again, so we were really tired when we got up on Sunday. Didn't sleep as late, Andrew got up at 7:30 and I got up at 9:45. But we were super tired and laid around all day before going over to my sister's for our Sunday visit. We picked up Chili's to go and ate at the Woods' house. The kids were so cute and we had so much fun visiting, as always.
Then today, we got up around 9:00 to get started on our day. I straightened my hair and did my makeup, and then we headed over to Pappadeaux for some yummy lunch. We managed to get some pictures of ourselves in the car, it had been so long since we'd posed for a picture together.
Then we went and saw In Time at the movie theater with some old gift cards I found when we moved. It was a decent movie, we liked it a lot. After that, we went to see my sister and her family before they went off for trick-or-treating. It was an absolute blast, those kids are hysterical!
Then it was time to get in their costumes. Andrew and Andrea had some fun trying them on before the kids...
Andrea Wood, normal stay-at-home mom:
And now she can fight crime with no one knowing her secret identity!
Oh my gosh...we were laughing so hard while she was being silly. Too funny! But she finally relinquished Jacob's costume to him so HE could do some poses...
Paige wasn't changing into her costume until she got to the Halloween party, but she jumped in to pose in front of Jacob while he was changing poses:
And Eli was going to go as a puppy, but he didn't wear it when he was leaving. Instead, we tried on a Buzz Lightyear costume that was too big for him, haha. He was distracted by how long the legs were, they affected him walking.
On the way home, we stopped at Walmart to pick up the photos we ordered. Andrew finally found a cute cat frame so we could put a picture of Dewey up in our house (are you shocked??? I've never had a picture of Dewey displayed in our home!), so we picked up the print and it looks great!!!
We also picked up a ton of candy for our first trick-or-treaters in our new house.
Andrew also remembered that I had wanted to pick up a jar of maraschino cherries for my birthday. See, when I was little, my grandmother that just passed away used to give me a 5 pound jar of maraschino cherries for my birthday. I loved it then, even though I probably always wanted a "real" present as well. But Liz knew that I loved those cherries, and she got me my own gigantic jar every year. So when she passed, I decided I wanted to bring back the tradition of having some on my birthday. But we forgot at Walmart, so Andrew pulled over to a liquor store on the way home and ran in and surprised me by coming back out with a bottle of cherries! They're chilling in the fridge right now, and we're going to have a few here soon. Thanks, babe, I'd have been crushed (when I remembered TOMORROW) that I'd forgotten.
And now, we're sitting here with some pizza, watching TV, and we're getting a slow trickle of trick-or-treaters. Looks like we'll definitely have some leftover candy. But it's been a really great couple of days celebrating turning the big 2-8. Feeling old, haha, but I'm super happy! Thanks to all of you for the birthday wishes! Thanks to Sara, Mom, Dad, Daniel, Connor, Andrea, Travis, Jacob, Eli, Paige, and my WONDERFUL husband Andrew for making this a truly fantastic birthday!
Hope all of you had a Happy Halloween!! =)
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