The Best Birthday Eva!!!!!!!

So let me begin by just saying that this was the BEST BIRTHDAY WEEKEND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

First off on Friday I found out that I did an excellent job on my Spanish composition paper.  That was quite a relief because that class has been extremely tough!

Next I came home to my wonderful wife who had lovingly decorated the table with all sorts of birthday presents.  She put many things on the table: a new tent, a new fishing pole with tackle box, 2 dvd's: elf, and napoleon dynamite, and other great presents!

We finished packing for our trip to Suhuarita and then went to Jo's BBQ grill and got my free b-day meal.  Kristen and I really enjoyed the meal and we got some lemonade and root beer with our delicious meals.

Then we left on our trip down south...we got stuck in a traffic jam because of a major crash right at our ramp to the I-10.  Our drive went well and we arrived just about on schedule.  The kids were very excited to see us and they wanted to play with us.  We played wii with Jarom and Makayla and then Mark got home from work and we all ate Papa Murphy's pizza!!!!  It was delicious!!!!  After that we had a surprise b-day cake!  Kristen had arranged that surprise without me even knowing.  She is amazing!!!

To finish off the evening we watched Tangled with everyone and then went to bed.

We got up around 8 am the following day and after a quick breakfast we went to the zoo even though it was raining.  We really had a good time there because it didn't get too freezing and since we had umbrellas we really didn't even get that wet.  Also we got to see nearly every single animal except for the sun bear which I guess is usually hiding anyways because she is really old and likes her cave area where she can rest.  And we didn't see the Tapir either.  But we saw nearly every other animal including a quick glimpse of the anteater which was a lot bigger than I imagined that he would be.

After all of the fun at the zoo, we stopped at the jack in the box for a quick bite to eat before heading back to Mesa.  We got back home around 3:30 in the afternoon and had a moment to do some last minute errands before going home to unpack.  After unpacking and making sure that things were all in order we headed out to the last b-day surprise: BOWLING!!!!!!  Kristen had scored some really great deals on some games of bowling, so we got to play 2 games.  She won the first but I won the second.  Overall I was the winner with total points :P  but only by 6 points lol.

We went to eat dinner at Macaroni Grill which was really tasty!  I had never been there before, but I definitely want to go back some time soon!  Our server was Monica and she was really nice and since it was my b-day dinner she brought us a big piece of chocolate cake to share.  The meal was delicious too!  I had a pene pasta with shrimp and chicken!  It was full of flavor and went great with the complimentary bread!

Overall it wasn't a good b-day...it was a stupendous b-day weekend!  Today we got to go to baby Peyton's blessing and I was asked to stand in the circle.  I finally got to meet Mike Stephens as well!  He and my father go way back as they were roommates at BYU and Mike was my father's best man!  So that was good to finally meet him.

Well it's back to the books as we have just a few more weeks of school until summer break!!!!  We are definitely looking forward to the break, this has been a rather stressful semester and it looks like next semester will hopefully be a little easier for both of us! :)

Adios!