Birthday Adventures

My sweet husband Craig had a birthday this Thursday the 24th. He turned 24 on the 24th, so it was his GOLDEN birthday! I made him a golden crown so everyone knew. Well, I made it just so HE'D know, but then he wore it around all day so...everyone knew. Adorable. Here's bits and snippets of our day.

The first present I gave him was handmade, it's a glass casting I did with my personal heart symbol on it with a heart symbol print I made pasted to the back. Most of the art I make has that symbol incorporated into it somewhere plus I doodle it all the time. Look at my blog banner! Haha. Craig's seen the prints before and he's seen the glass casts all around the house sometimes but this idea to put them together came out surprisingly well, and we both love it.

All My Friends Are Dead. AWESOME book, I got it from Modcloth [along with the next two presents, they came with my new dress]. I'm putting it in my children's book shelf. My kids are going to be so morbid.

How to do Absolutely Everything came next. I think this was his least favorite, but if nothing else now he has a diagram telling him how to tie his own ties. At last.

FAVORITE present. Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. We're big fans of Shakespeare in this house. We're also big fans of The Dude in this house. Win win.

Wallet! I gave him this present super early, like, last month...ish. It's just like his old wallet that he wouldn't get rid of even though it was falling apart because he loved it so much except this one is black with white spots instead of white with black spots. Long sentence.

Barman shirt! There's so much Batman action in our lives. This present was a little early too...my bad. I WAS going to wait, I really was. But I barely got out of the store with it before he was owning it and wearing it. He's passed on his bad habit of giving presents to early to me. And it's working out quite nicely.

After presents were opened I had to make his requested birthday dessert: rice crispy treats...with chocolate chips...and peanut butter. It took a little improvisation so I listened to my favorite band for support. And I danced. That was me dancing. Like my nerdy gamer t-shirt and polar bear shorts? How's THAT for fashion blogging? Ha!

 Definitely a treat that should be consumed with milk. Definitely.

Birthday wish.

Tastes great!

Unfortunately, I don't like milk. This is my tongue-stuck-to-the-roof-of-my-mouth face.

After dessert we hung out in Portland for a while [picked up the new Rise Against and Decemberists cds, so excited!]. He got all fancy with his crown and his blazer. I dressed up too, but he looked way better. Fo sho.

We finished up the day with dinner at Red Lobster with some of our bestest friends. The food was delicious, the company was divine, and our experience with the restaurant was...interesting. That's all I'm allowing myself to say about it! I was negative enough at the time.

I just have to share real quick some of the sweet gifts our friends gave to Craig, because they're so AWESOME. The gifts and the friends. Miguel and Brittney gave him bacon and a bacon cookbook. If you don't know this yet you should, we heart bacon. Josh and Charlotte offered up a fabulous batman kite, nail polish [returning the favor from Josh's party], a little frog statue which I'm totally stealing, Sour Jacks, a fancy dancy pinwheel which I may also be stealing, and the best glowsticks we've ever seen! We turned off all the lights in the house and walked around lighting the way with only our hardcore glowstick bracelets. Seriously, they were so bright. And right now I may or may not be consuming some delicious brownies from our friends Jessica and Ryan [who also had a birthday on Thursday, we got him a princess crown but forgot it, maybe next year?]. I think the moral of this story is that I am a present stealer. Yikes.

I did love today. I love my husband, I really love the fact that he was born, for serious, and I love our friends! I'm happy that I now live a life in which birthdays are special days. I'm hoping for many more.