Happy 33rd Birthday Josh!!!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

We celebrated Josh's birthday this last weekend, and as usual, we did it in style! My parents took the kids for the weekend, and although I had to work on Saturday, coming home to the birthday boy and walking up the street to the local restaurant (Rounders) and enjoying a delicious kid free dinner was just what the doctor ordered! We love our kiddos more than anything, but sometimes Mom and Dad need a break! Oh, and the owner of the restaurant gave us 20% off our meal because we are Buckeye fans and everywhere Josh goes, he has to talk sports with people... SCORE!!!

The next day I had to wake up early and run to the lab to have my blood drawn because I accidentally stuck myself with a dirty needle at work and now for the next 6 months I am on surveillance for HIV and Hepatitis :(. Luckily, so far everything has been clean and good with my lab work so I think I should be fine. The day got much better once I got home and we went up to the New Day Cafe for breakfast and then headed to China Town for a couples massage! Okay, I got the massages for super cheap on Groupon and didn't really bother to look at where it was located. So it was interesting to say the least.... let's just say Asian massage is very different. Better in some ways, and worse in others. Josh was slightly violated and for that I feel so bad, but he didn't care much haha!

Heading off on our kid-free adventure!!!

Then we checked into our hotel at the Aliante Resort and went to a movie! Do you know how long it has been since we've seen a movie together?! Like ages! We spent the rest of the night eating way too much Mexican food, playing some slots, and we passed out early like the old farts we are now (hahaha!). Seriously though, Josh was asleep by 7pm and I went to bed at 9:30pm! We are so starved for sleep these days, so we take it whenever we can get it! Quite honestly though, we didn't care that our days of staying up into the late hours of the night are over. Apparently having kids changes you :).

The next day we woke up and ate breakfast at the Farm, a breakfast joint at the Aliante Resort. The food was sooo good and we were sad the trip was ending. But we were happy to see our kids and learn what they had been up to over the past two days. They had gone hiking out at Valley of Fire, visited the Lost City Museum, and built the most amazing box fort I had ever seen with Aunt Briana. Seriously, this thing had multiple levels and tunnels that led into different rooms! It looked like one heck of a party! My Mom had bought cupcakes for Josh and we sang Happy Birthday to him there :). The kids were so cute with him :). They love him so much! Almost as much as they love  blowing out candles! They each wanted to take a turn blowing out the candles after Josh had his turn, and since we had forgotten candles and were using matches instead, it was interesting haha!

Getting ready to blow out the candles!

Yayyyy Daddy!

Loves from Sis, aka the cuddle bug :).

And of course, loves from the A-man who loves his Daddy more than anything in the world :).

Happy Happy Birthday Josh!

We made the trek home and the kids fell asleep immediately in the car. Proof that, as always, it was a very overstimulating and incredible weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's house! Once we got home and got all our bags unloaded, the kids surprised Josh with their homemade cards and the candy bar/beef jerky bouquet we made for him! It was so fun watching each kid excitedly show their Daddy their cards and pretend to read to him what each of them said. Evie was overjoyed to show him all the Pooh Bear stickers she had decorated her card with and Austin was all about the Power Rangers! It was a fun way to end a very fun Birthday!

***Here are some pictures to prove why the kiddos were so exhausted! ;) Thanks Grandma and Grandpa! And let's not forget Aunt Nana and her boyfriend Thomas!!

Hiking at Valley of Fire!!!

Having fun and getting dirty!

This was one of my favorite places to go as a child! So much climbing and adventure!

The red sand there is the best! Seriously, it's the softest sand you'll ever feel!

Just look at that messy face! I love it! And look how high Austin and Nana climbed! :0

Our beautiful Indian princess in her element :).

 

 Exploring the Lost City Museum!

 It's a cool museum outside of Overton that is full of actual adobe houses and all sorts of treasures left behind by the Paiute Indians hundreds of years ago! Austin was totally enthralled by all the rocks and gemstones, and of course he talked Grandma into buying all of them for him.....

Going back in time.....

Inside one of the adobe dwellings! Too cool!

Happy Birthday my love! We all love you so much and I don't know what we would do without you! You deserved every fun surprise this weekend had in store for you! ;)

We had a movie night/sleepover in Mom and Dad's room that night because apparently nobody wanted the party to end ;). That's how you KNOW it was a good one!