Day 348, February 1st

Missing photo...post coming soon!!! 

Day 347, January 31st

Tuesday, life went back to normal.  As we both headed back to work, I had plenty to do, with Kids Walks in full swing.  As I was driving back from one Kids Walk, I stopped for lunch at Wildflower and wouldn't you know who I ran into?!! My pops!! I sat and chatted with him a bit during our impromptu visit, told him I was desperate to get a new job and that I was currently waiting to hear.  After I said my good bye, headed back to the car, I noticed I had a voice mail.  A voice mail from Heaven as it seemed because I in fact was offered the job I had recently interviewed for!! Grateful, I headed back to work, finished my day, and headed home to tell Ryan the wonderful news!! We of course decided we HAD to celebrate, so headed to our favorite, Aunt Chilada's! 
While we were getting ready, Tommy called Ryan and said he was heading to our fav spot and wanted to know if we'd like to join them, crazy since that was already our plan! We had a nice dinner, I felt super over the moon, and it was pretty much the best way to end the first month of the new year! 

Day 346, January 30th

Happy birthday, Ryan!!!!!

It's Ryan's first birthday as a married man so I had to show how awesome birthdays would be from here on out!!  When we woke up, the children gave Ryan his gift, a shirt, Gus of course wanted all the credit for the gift, but Max helped pick it out as well.  I made breakfast and then we pretty much just spent the day lounging around.  Max and Gus both showed love to Ryan, which I was slightly jealous of, but also glad to see my boys all together.

After lunch, I made some cupcakes, and let Ryan open his birthday present. Over the summer we went to the All Star game, and saw this giant book that had everything you ever wanted to know about baseball inside!! I was going to get it for Ryan for Christmas, but then we bought the tv and limited Christmas, so bam, he got it for his birthday! I think he was genuinely surprised by the gift, which is always may goal!! He read through the book, ate some cupcakes and got wrapped up in a TI and Tiny marathon on VH1...
For dinner, we pulled ourselves away from The Family Hustle, and headed to North, one of our favorite Fox Restaurants. After our delicious meal, we had the idea to head over to Oregano's for dessert.  This smart idea quickly turned into the worst idea ever...When we arrived, we were seated and I ran to the restroom and by the time I came back, Ryan had ordered our half chocolate chip half white macadamia nut pizza cookie.  After 30 minutes, I asked our waiter where the heck our cookie was, to which he dumbly responded it was coming...well needless to say another 10 minutes later we finally got our cookie...yes, almost an hour of sitting there!! I touched my spoon to the cookie and it was RAW! Ugh, so we told the manager, who told me they'd make us a new one but wanted me to know that that's how they are usually served. She messed with the wrong gal and I snapped at her and told her I have ordered them several times and that was NOT the way they were served.  What a hassle, and a terrible way to end Ryan's birthday!! 10 minutes later, a cooked pizza cookie came out, weird since it took the raw one 40 minutes to cook, we ate the deliciousness and then we walked out the door, never to look back. I suppose the free dessert was nice, but not worth the trouble, since we probably could have got a free dessert anywhere for Ryan's birthday!!  Not cool Oregano's... 

Day 345, January 29th

Back to reality for us!! We drove back to America on Sunday, and created our intense laundry piles and got to work.  Tomorrow is also Ryan's birthday, so I headed to Mike and Mary's house to pick up his gift, it was delivered when we were out of town, and wrapped that present right up! 
Gus loves to wrap presents! Christmas is his favorite time, but any time there is a celebration, he always jumps in to help get that gift wrapped!!  After birthday celebrations were ready for the morning, we just hung around, enjoying Ryan's last day of 27!

Day 344, January 28th

Saturday morning we ate some breakfast and took a nice long walk on the beach. Nice little exercise and chat time!! Then we basically just chilled to the max the rest of the day.  Did a little shopping, a little eating, a little drinking and even a little bit more sleeping.
As the sun started to set, we headed to Wrecked at the Reef to meet up with Nate and Paula for dinner before The Peacemakers concert at JJ's.  Ryan and I hadn't been to Wrecked before, but it is a pretty happening spot.  The food was yummy and it was right on the beach, a place we will start frequenting from here on out!
After dinner, we drove out to JJ's for the concert.  We were having a few beers in the parking lot before the concert started and while we were sitting there, low and behold Roger and the rest of the band pulled up and headed in!! It was exciting, and also our cue to get inside for the show!! 

The concert was obviously amazing, per usual.  I think the JJ show is my favorite, it's sort of like sitting on your back patio with a band playing for you. After intermission we lost Nate and Paula in the crowd...Paula's fun level was met...so we wandered closer, ran into our usual Roger Crew and spent the rest of the night singing and rockin! 

Day 343, January 27th

Friday morning, Ryan and I woke up and hit the road for Mexico.  I am really starting to love escaping to Mexico the weekend after an event.  It's perfect since our cell phones don't work, there is no distractions and it's just lovely.
We got in to town early afternoon, had lunch at Flavio's and then honestly, we took a nap!! 
After our nap, we got up and got out! We headed to Chango's for dinner and drinks and had a nice relaxing night.  There was this group of drunk older gents who were having quite a good time dancing with some nice younger gals.  It was a calm nice little first night of our weekend getaway!

Day 342, January 26th

Thursday was our last day of work before we headed to Mexico for the weekend.  Mexico the weekend after a JDRF event has become a tradition in our house.
After work, I went to get my haircut, then headed home to watch another installment of our Rocky marathon.  We were on Rocky III, so we settled in to watch.  Instantly, I was asleep, totally passed out.  Obviously the gala weekend along with my week of car drama caught up with me!!
I slept until Ryan finally came and got me to take me to bed.  My biggest concern was that we didn't take a photo, and seriously with 23 days left, it would be sad to miss a photo now!! Luckily, Ryan snapped a self photo of him packing up for our weekend getaway while I slept through it all.