Birthday Festivities

So my birthday was November 1st. Woohoo! Another year older. I am officially 23 if you were wondering.

My sweet hubby took extra good care of me on my birthday and the day after. I am so spoiled!

So right after the alarm went off, David told me he had a surprise for me. He pulled out his phone while I tried to open my eyes and keep them open. Then he showed me a series of maybe seven videos from our friends. They all had sent David a video of them wishing me a happy birthday and telling me how much they loved me. It was so special to see all of my sweet friends' faces and hear their voices. A couple people made them funny and others were serious. It was a fantastic mix and I appreciated it so much!

Then it was off to work. Nothing too eventful. Only one person knew it was my birthday, and she didn't come in until 2:30. I think they think my birthday is on the 11th….that will be awkward.

When I got home, there were cards and package strewn across our counter, however, I got off late and had to rush to get to my birthday dinner. David had invited our young married's group and a couple of other friends we've met along the way. We called to get our names on the list at Casa Mariachi (one of the first decent Mexican restaurants (to be honest, there's not really any good Mexican food up here)), and they had a bunch of big parties and wouldn't be able to sit us until at least 7:30. Problem #1: We told everyone 6:30. So we quickly found a new place, Hacienda, and tried to relay the message to as many people as possible. Problem #2: We didn't have everyone's phone numbers. Yikes! So David and I flew to Casa Mariachi to send people on to Hacienda.

By the time we got there, everyone who we didn't have the phone numbers of was there, so we all caravanned to Hacienda. It worked great! One of the couples from our young married's group had bought me a margarita, and I love margaritas! Problem #3: I hadn't had a drink since we'd been in Colorado. Uh oh. Let's just say I'm a light weight to begin with, add in the altitude and I was a goner. I'll get back to that in a minute. While we waited for our table we were outside by a giant fire pit. It was super cool! Moving the dinner to Hacienda was the best idea we had all night! When our table was ready, I had only drank half of my margarita, but when I tried to walk, oh man did I feel that drink. We sat down and I couldn't even read the menu! I have never felt like this before. I asked David how long it would last and he said like 20-30 minutes and took my margarita away from me, laughing. Dinner was great! Everyone got along, the food was more decent than Casa Mariachi, and apparently I was more talkative than ever! When we got home, I laid down for a second, and it was game over. (Side note, I so love this picture, minus the fact that the string used to help keep my sweater on the hanger decided to photo bomb. Not cool.)

The next day I convinced David to take me to brunch at Le Peep. We have one back in San Antonio, and it is delicious! It's where I had my bridesmaid's brunch. Le Peep did not disappoint in Colorado. It was fantastic. David and I then headed off to do some birthday shopping and Christmas present hunting. We went down to the outlet mall in Castle Rock- which is fabulous. We spent a couple hours there then headed home to make some dinner and relax (for me at least, David had a paper to write).

In other news, we all know that I am pretty decent at doing other people's hair and pretty lazy when it comes to my own. I'm attempting to change that, again. Now that my hair is getting longer- praise Jesus!- I am capable of actually doing more to it than straightening it or wearing it natural. As of right now, I'm digging the loose curl look. I even did y'all the pleasure of taking a selfie so that you can see it too. Selfie's are awkward, I'm not gonna lie.