My Birthday

My birthday was on Friday the 13th.

Justin was on his "A" game for my birthday this year. (I'm sure it had nothing to do with my crazy wife threatening's that may have happened multiple times over the subject...;)

Either way. He had the whole day planned! Even babysitters!! (Might I add, the "babysitter" part is WAY easier said than done---it consisted of 3 kid turn around's with 3 different sitters--GO JUSTIN!!)

It was wonderful!!

Speaking of "3's", we got only 3 pictures of the day (see below).  All within about 3 minutes of each other. Go us!

 Everything didn't go quite as he had originally planned, but it was still SUPER awesome.

His plan:

*wake up and be on the road by 8am*

That one almost happened...we were only about 15 minutes off.

*Drive to SLC and eat breakfast at the oh-so-famous-for-being-delicous Little America Buffet (something I have been DIEING to do--very thoughtful)*

So we drive all the way up there and realize that they don't serve breakfast on Friday's. EXTRA LARGE BUMMER.

 BUT, thankfully, we remembered a Man vs. Food episode in SLC where they ate yummy looking schtuff at Bruges Waffles and Frites. So we headed there and got the most delicous waffles we have ever had. Gracious. You have no idea. It's a yeast recipe, so they have to let it rise--heavens. AND THEN they make their own "whipping cream". They have to scoop it out with an ice cream scoop. Please re-read that last sentence.

 It was a VERY HAPPY TIME eating that waffle with my honey on the roof with an overcast sky. Be jealous. ;)

 *To Park City we go to do the Alpine Slide, Sky Coaster and the Zipline.*

This worked out pretty well except we didn't plan on it taking as long as it did. There was a lot of people there. Also, apparently as on member of staff informed us, "the summer visitors aren't as 'experienced' with the lift" this forces the staff  (insert HUGE eye-roll) to slow the lift down to about 1/2 mph. I'm not joking. It took about 30 minutes to get up to the top for the Zipline (we did that first) and then wait in line at the Zipline and then zipline down for 10 seconds and then wait to get back on the lift to do the Alpine Slide, then wait 30 minutes on the lift and so on and so fourth. 

I HATE waiting.

And then the Sky-Coaster was a 40 minute wait. Just standing there. Waiting. Doing nothing. For 40 minutes.

BUT, It was REALLY fun. I'm so glad we were able to do it--they kept threatening to stop the rides if it rained--and it looked like it was on the verge of raining the entire time. I think that anxiety of the rain made the long waits worse than they would have been--you didn't want to wait forever and not be able to do the ride. 

The Zipline was by far the freakiest for me. I really don't like the "falling feeling" and it really drops at the beginning. Justin was in heaven. He said "My didn't even go that fast"--all I know is that his was going faster than mine and mine was WAY to fast for me. :)

Alpine slide is just a classic good time, as long as you don't get stuck behind a kid that is freaking out.Which both of us were able to avoid. I love that slide. Justin said he didn't break the whole time, which was his goal. I don't get how he didn't go shooting off the edge...

The Sky-coaster was probably my favorite. Loved it.

Anyway, really fun time.

 *On to the Outlets in Park City.*

Justin knows that I like to shop til' I drop, so he planned that into our day. And I had some "birthday money" that was burning a hole in my pocket so it worked out marvelously. And I got some perdy-darn cute clothes and some perdy-darn good deals. Love it when that happens. Justin was oh-so-patient and went into whatever store I wanted for as long as I wanted. Let me buy whatever I wanted without giving me weird looks or eye-rolls. However, when I opened 2 different credit cards to get 40% off--the Tawny's-birthday-happy-Justin switch wore off. Imagine that. :) Also, Justin bought me a really gorgeous/fun watch. Been wanting one of those for a while now...Gracias baby-cakes.

*Dinner somewhere I wanted, maybe Fuego's? Our Park City favorite?*

In hind-sight, "Tawny, why didn't you stick to his awesome plan???" Should have done Fuego's but I was REALLY wanting to try something new at Cheescake Factory, (we don't go there often) so we went all the way back to SLC (per my request--my bad, sorry babe) just to find it was a hour wait.(Surprise! Surprise!) Our 3rd babysitter was at home and that just wasn't going to fly with us--the clock was ticking. So we went to CPK--I seriously CRAVE their Pear Gorgonzola Pizza. YUM. They had a long wait too. So we hopped in the car, drove home, and got Cafe Rio take-out in Orem. Can't really go wrong with Cafe Rio, lets be honest. :)

And then, my birthday came to a close, we were done.

Super fun right??

Big thanks and love to Justin--way to go babe!! It was perfect. Also, BIG thanks and love to the babysitters! My mom, Debbie, and Arianne and Chanel. STUDS, who made this evening possible.:)

Hugs and loves all around!!

I also just want to mention--because I know my family reads this--that when we did my "Birthday Affirmations" It was like the best 30 minutes of ever. Triple love. Thanks for that, it was definitely a huge highlight.