Birthday Celebrations Just Keep On Coming

This weekend we had friends over to celebrate our birthdays.

Our friend made a cake that looked like a big cupcake and was a layer of chocolate sandwiched between 2 layers of funfetti.  Delicious.

Birthday Celebrations

On Saturday we went to Navy Pier with Keith's family to celebrate both of our birthdays.  Keith, his mom and I rode the Ferris Wheel.  I was looking forward to it because when we went in the winter it was not running due to rain.

a view from Navy Pier

 Keith and I in front of the Ferris Wheel

View from the top

We also took an architectural boat tour, which was very very good.  I recommend it.

Trump Tower as viewed from the boat

sneak peak at the Sears/Willis Tower

On Sunday, my actual birthday, we celebrated by going paddle boating at Independence Grove with my mom & sister.  After that, we went out for Thai food for lunch.  Mmmm.

Then I opened presents from Keith.  One was wrapped in our monster bag.  I pointed the bag out to Keith at the store once, about 4 years ago.  He ended up using it to wrap my gift in, and we have been wrapping each other's gifts with it ever since.  

One of those packages contained SingStar for the PS3, which is what I have been spending my free time on ever since.

I had a very wonderful birthday.  It was a fantastic way to kick off this 25th year!

Yummy!

Tonight for dinner I made one of my favorite easy dinners - vegetarian tacos.

After dinner I made treats (chocolate covered peanut butter balls) to bring to work tomorrow to kick off birthday celebrations galore.

Celebration plans for this weekend include: going to Navy Pier with Keith's family, paddle boating at Independence Grove and out to eat with my family, and opening some presents.  I love birthdays! :)

Happy Fourth of July!

I've decided to try and keep up with this blog again.

This was the weekend of the Fourth of July.  We did some pretty summery things, like getting sundaes & malts, watching The Sandlot, walking around the Mundelein Community Days & getting lunch at the Mundelein Munch.  We swam in our neighborhood pool and it was quite refreshing.

Of course, we also saw the Mundelein fireworks, which we wonderful as always.  The finale was really good this year.  Very cohesive.

It's been a great long weekend!

Fall

The neighborhood by our condo has streets lined with trees that all turned gold.


I took a few photos and they just don't do it justice.

Cupcake Cake

This past Saturday it was Keith's aunt Linda's 60th birthday. There was a surprise party and she was very surprised. It was a good time. I made pumpkin cupcakes for the event. I used a decorating idea from the book Hello, Cupcake, and made a birthday cake out of them. Keith's cousin's wife Lisa helped me make the cupcakes and plan out the tiers.

Sweet Surprise

I had the day off from work today. This morning I walked into the kitchen to get my cereal and found a card & gift from Keith! The card said to relax & enjoy my day off, and that the gift was to make next week at work a little better. (I was pretty stressed this week.)

The card was perfect!


The gift was grey shoes that I had pointed out to him awhile ago.


It's been almost 5 years and it feels amazing to be falling more & more in love with each other every day. <3