An Anniversay, A Valentine and My Birthday...

With the exception of us having one of the coldest damn winters we've ever had (35 degrees?! Are you kidding me?!) February has been a pretty damn good month!

February 2nd is Patrick and my anniversary!  One year ago on February 2nd, 2018 I walked over to the Circle and met him at Haven Gastropub for dinner, then we meandered over to Provisions then ended up at Avila's.  We ended the night with the sweetest 1st kiss I've ever had.  Here we are a year later celebrating!

He planned a super sweet evening for us.  We started the night at Ten Bistro which was delicious!  I had my 1st black rice sushi!

Yummy!

He surprised us with a night at a nearby hotel for an evening away.  It had a random room we took a few photos in, enjoyed the jacuzzi in the rain and had a fun fantastic evening.

Our room for the night!

Love him

Random Neat Room in the Hotel

New profile!

It's been a long time since I ever imagined I would even have an anniversary!

Not long after was Valentine's Day.  It's been over 15 years since I had a Valentine!  We didn't want to be super extravagant but we did want to do something, so after searching around we found a restaurant that had a decent priced special and was going to have a Spanish Guitarist play.  Perfect!!  Or so we thought...

We showed up, dolled up a bit to Eats Kitchen in Hotel Irvine.  I had high hopes because I had read some good reviews.  Sadly no.  The place was more like a Denny's rather than a Gastropub like it advertises.  And although the special was a good price - appetizer, 2 entrees, a dessert and a bottle of wine for $90 - the food was not good. Crunchy weird tiny scallops, soggy couscous, bacon that was supposed to be prosciutto, lord.  The worst part - there was no Spanish Guitarist!!  That's the whole reason we went there.  It's so hard to find classical guitar performances around here so we were so excited.  It was some dude playing cover songs.  WTF.  So even though our V-Day dinner was a bust, we of course still enjoyed each other's company and later was fun too.  *wink*

My handsome Valentine

Meh

This was actually really good!  Those little marshmallow things were awesome!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Then a little while later - Is my Birthday!!!!

As per usual I was hemming and hawwing because I didn't know what to do.  My birthday fell on a Saturday so I felt I had to do something, but it's so damn cold and I'm kind of old and tired for big crowds and parties but I don't want to do nothing but AAAAAAAHHHHH!



Well thanks to my mother we ended up having a few people over to her house that night to celebrate me.  There ya go.  Done and Done.  She did it all in a Woodland Theme which was the fucking cutest and about 15 or so of my closest friends.  Thank you mom for rescuing me!

It actually started a few days early when one of my co-workers gave me a bottle of yummy wine and my team gives flowers.

I took the Friday off and my dad took me to breakfast to one of my favorite places - Eat Chow then birthday shopping!  Yay!

Love you Daddy!

That evening was my celebration with Patrick since he wasn't going to able to make my actual birthday.  So we went to a really nice dinner back at the place we went last year for my birthday called Black Trumpet!  It moved into a better location and it was just as delicious as I remember!

Fancy Ding Dong

He then gave me the best presie!!!

But what I also loved was the envelope it came in.  Seriously the sweetest!

I seriously love this

And yes I kept it

On my actual birthday one of my best friends took me out for a birthday pedi!

Cheers Robin!

I then pretty much just hung out at mom's helping her get ready for my little gathering.  It was so much fun.  She got a ham and made her potato salad per my request.  We noshed, drank, laughed, played Cards Against Humanity (yes my mom did too) and had a really awesome evening!  A perfect way to start of my 43rd year around the sun!

Keri gettin in on the grub

My mom rules

Terri knows my situation....so rad!

Robin was dog sitting so we had little Pug Friends!

Mom of course made party favors!  They were filled with Trail Mix

 The next day the celebrations didn't stop.  My friend Carol took me out to a lovely breakfast in San Clemente, then I met up with friend Shan who treated me to a Rose tasting!

Rose Everyday!

I then zipped over to Patrick's place because the little had something planned.  I walked into to a little surprise party!  She had decorated the house so very cute and gave me some fuzzy kitty socks!  Absolutely made my weekend!

Thank you Elise!

It was a perfect birthday weekend for sure!!

Feeling very happy and very loved!!