Birthdays All Around

It's been a while since my last blog because this past week has been crazy busy with birthday madness!! Last Wednesday was my dad's birthday, Thursday was my sister's birthday and Saturday was Gabe's (my man) birthday...that's a lot to celebrate. On Wednesday the four of us plus one of my bestest friend's, Ariel, went up to Disneyland for my dad's bday. It was tons of fun and my sister, Ariel and I decided to try something new called "disneybound." It basically means you dress up as a disney character, but in modern day clothing. We did our looks based off of the amazing Frozen movie characters Anna, Elsa and Olaf. It was really fun, however I think next time I go disneybound I might opt for something a little more theme park friendly, seeing how by the end of the night my feet were killing me and my legs were FROZEN! (Get it?! wink wink) Anyways, dad had a wonderful time running around the parks, going on some of his favorite rides. We also took him to Chik-Fil-A for lunch, had some yummy Ghirardelli bday sundaes in between rides and dinner at Carnation Cafe inside Disneyland! It was pretty relaxed because the parks weren't busy so all in all I think he had the disney celebration he wanted :) Here are some pics of us girls in our "disneybound" ensembles:

The next day was my lovely seeester's birthday!! It was a bit more laid back than disneyland, but we did take her to the delicious True Food Kitchen in Fashion Valley. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pics but that was because we were too buys devouring our food! My sister celebrated with all of her friends on Saturday night, but since that was Gabe's bday we didn't make it because I had made special plans for him...

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS!!!!

Neither Gabe or I had ever been and for as long as I've known him he has always wanted to go so I splurged and got us the buy a day, get 2014 free tickets so now we can go as many times as we want this year...yay! We had so much fun and there really is A LOT to do there! We went on the simpsons ride, jurassic park ride (duh), the transformers ride, the shrek 4D show, a show on special movie effects and probably my favorite part, the studio tour. It was so cool because we were able to cruise around real movie sets and see how they are built and used. We got to go through a simulated King Kong mini ride which was awesome and then experience an underground subway train crash/earthquake...it was nuts! Most of the rides are 4D simulators, but it was really cool to feel like you were in all of these different places when actually you're just sitting in one place the whole time.

The food was delicious and surprisingly they had tons of different healthy alternative options (and of course not so healthy options). I can't wait to try all the different places when we go back on future trips! We had so much fun and were definitely pooped out when we got home from the days adventures!

Can't wait until our next trip when the Despicable Me land opens!!

And one last picture of Gabe with his birthday cake dad and I got him (;

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

It's been a nice, rainy weekend. So we all know what that means...Star Wars marathon! Okay, I actually just started watching Star Wars maybe 15 minutes ago while I type this blog but whatever. My cat Wendy is getting pretty into it:

And just like me, R2D2 seems to be her favorite character.

Yesterday I enjoyed the rain with my man, some starbucks thanks to the seeester , church and our awesome friends who I hadn't seen in waaaaay too long! We played mario kart (which I'm not very good at, but Gabe seems to think so) and came to the decision that it is a great therapeutic game if you need to get aggression out haha (;

Today I'm hoping to see one of my very best friends Ariel and bring her some goodies because her and her mom were in a car accident on Friday. So thankful that they are okay and home recovering!! I also need to go to the apple store because my computer refuses to download the latest software (maverick I think?) just because it's a 2009 model...LAME. Apple needs to get past this discrimination based on age thing because guess what?! Not all of us are rich millionaires who can afford to buy new computers and phones every year!! Anywho, happy thoughts that they can do something!

Hope anyone that might be reading this has a happy Sunday and great week!

Oh, and may the force be with you.