2014 Goals Review

I set up page on my blog to keep track of my goals, and that has helped me so much this year! I've updated it monthly, and it's reminded me of what I'm supposed to be working on all year, and because of that, I feel like I was pretty successful in accomplishing what I set out to do this past year!

1. PERSONAL: Do at least 10 blog posts a month 
Although there were two months that I only got 9 posts done, I blogged extra in other months to make up for it, so I'm counting this as a success. I know that if I hadn't made this a goal, I wouldn't have kept up on my blog, because doing college class work has become a priority in my spare time, but since it was a goal, I always made sure to try to get my blogging done, too.

In December, I ordered printed blog books for
2012 and the first half of 2013's blog posts.

       January: 11
       February: 10
       March: 10
       April: 9
       May: 10
       June: 20
       July: 12
       August: 12
       September: 10
       October: 10
       November: 9
       December: 11

2. SPIRITUAL: Go to the temple 6 times
In the years that I haven't made this a goal, I've discovered that I don't find the time to attend the temple because it isn't a priority! I'm glad to say I was successful in accomplishing this goal this year, and I enjoyed attending different temples throughout the year!
       March: went once to Idaho Falls temple for Amanda's first time through

       May: went twice--once to Idaho Falls for cousin Kimberlee's wedding and once to Jordan River with Amanda and her sister-in-law Erica

     
June: went once to Logan temple for my sister Katrina's wedding.

       November: went once to Ogdan temple with Josh

       December: went once to the Rexburg temple alone

3. EDUCATIONAL: Complete 25 university credits
I only completed 24--but I'm still counting this as a success because I also completed my university orientation class which was a requirement for my university, but it wasn't worth any credits.
       April: completed 6 credits (3 in Critical Thinking, 3 in Math Appreciation)
       June: completed 6 credits (3 in U.S. Government/Constitution, 3 in Math for Elementary Educators I)
       July: completed 3 credits (Math for Elementary Educators II)
       September: completed 3 credits (Culture & Diversity)
       October: completed 3 credits (Math for Elementary Educators III)
       November: completed 3 credits (Foundational Perspectives in Education)

4. MARRIAGE: Go on a date with Josh once a month
I loved this goal because I love spending time with my favorite person in the world! We have some awesome friends in Salmon that we doubled with quite often, which makes it more worthwhile to go out, too!
       January: ate dinner at Costa Vida then saw P!NK in concert!

        February: went out 7 times!!! We went to karaoke/dancing with Amanda & John twice, ate dinner at Fuddrucker's in Boise then saw Imagine Dragons in concert, went to the hot springs twice, went to the relief society Valentine's dinner, and ate & danced at the HS band's fundraiser "Swing Night".

       March: went 3x: to the movie theater twice with Amanda & John, went to dinner at Junkyard Bistro once with Amanda & John & Krissy and went to the hot springs afterwards.

       April: went Easter shopping in Brigham City and ate afterwards at Sonic.
       May: went 3x: once to dinner at Hwy 28 with just Josh and I for Mother's Day, once to dinner at Hwy 28 (again!) & karaoke afterwards for John's birthday with Amanda & Krissy, and once to appetizers at Bertram's and dancing/karaoke after with John & Amanda.

       June: went 3x: went to Sharkey Hot Springs and ate ice cream with Krissy & Amanda, went to see the movie "Million ways to die in the west" and ate at Winger's with my high school friend Darcy and her husband David, and went to a dancing birthday party with Josh & Amanda and then John joined us afterwards for karaoke.

       July: Went out with Josh, Amanda and John. We watched "22 Jump Street" in the theater, went to dinner at Bertram's after the movie, and went to karaoke & dancing after dinner

       August: Went out 4x: once with Amanda & John to eat at Josephine's Pizza in North Fork, once with Amanda & John to Broken Arrow Restaurant in Gibbonsville & then karaoke afterwards, once with Amanda & Krissy to watch the movie "Let's Be Cops" at the theater, and once with Amanda & Krissy to dinner at Bertram's then the hot springs afterward with John.

       September: ate dinner at Costa Vida together then watched Katy Perry in concert in SLC!

       October: ate dinner at Josephine's Pizza, danced at the Gibbonsville Hunter's Ball, then came home and watched an episode of "Parenthood" on TV while laying in bed.
       November: Went out 5x: ate lunch at Josephine's Pizza and shopped at the High Country Trail where we purchased some photo prints from Joey, ate dinner at Hwy 28 Club with John, Brad, and Amanda and went to karaoke and dancing afterwards, watched the movie "Meet the Mormons" at the movie theater together and shared a popcorn, went out for dinner and then dessert with Josh, John, Amanda, and Krissy, and went Black Friday shopping in Ogden, had lunch at Costa Vida, went car shopping, and went to the temple in Ogden.

       December: Went out 4x: Ate at the Ranch Restaurant with friends at Amanda's Salon Christmas Party, went dancing & sang karaoke with John & Amanda (after I'd seen the high school play with them), went to the hot springs with John and Amanda and ate cheesy breadsticks on the way, and had dinner at Last Chance with Krissy and John.

5. PHYSICAL: Exercise every week
I consider this one a success! I was really getting into shape and enjoying the benefits from exercise! From July to November, I took it even further and exercised almost every single day!
       January: attended yoga classes every week
       February: attended yoga classes 3 weeks and went skiing one week  
       March: attended yoga class 1 week, rode bike during 2 weeks, and went walking/hiking in Arches National Park with the family 1 week
       April: attended yoga class 3 weeks, walked in Seattle 1 week
       May: walked for 2 weeks at 4th grade field trips, walked 1 week with Josh, planted & worked in garden 1 week
       June: went to water aerobics 1 week, ran around soccer field 1 week, hiked at Craters of the Moon one week, (and I missed a week of exercise)
       July: walked 1 mile one week, walked on treadmill 3 weeks
       August: walked on the treadmill almost every single day, walked/hiked at Yellowstone one week, and went to water aerobics 3 times
       September: walked on the treadmill almost every single day, rode bikes with the boys several times, and went to water aerobics twice
       October: walked on the treadmill almost every single day, took a bike ride around the 4 mile loop by our house once, and lifted & moved pumpkins on the weekends.
       November: walked on the treadmill
       December: walked on the treadmill, hiked up the mountain to get Christmas trees, went sledding, and went skiing.

6. FINANCIAL: Pay off my credit card
I've come a long way in my finances this year, and I'm so glad I can say that I accomplished this goal!
       March: I paid off my hospital bill from last year!  
       May: I paid off my Lane Bryant card AND my regular Credit Card this month. What a good feeling to go into summer (when there's no income for me from the school) without any debt! Yay!
       November: Paid off my Line of Credit bill after charging on it during the summer months when I had no income.

7. SOCIAL: Do a random act of kindness every month
I'm so glad I made this a goal! I kept reminding myself to look for opportunities to serve and I enjoyed providing service for others throughout the year!
       January: helped stack wood at the Beers' home
       February: gave a man a ride home one night after I saw him walking and carrying paint cans
       March: made and delivered cookies to a neighbor, volunteered to take several family photos of strangers while at Arches National Park
       April: made cookies for a woman in the ward who was having a birthday, gave money and food to students on the high school band/choir Seattle tour
       May: bought flowers for a woman who played guitar at one of my school musical programs
       June: helped serve Kid's Free Lunch 3x with the LASP program and babysit friends' babies while we were at the swimming pool
       July: volunteered at the finish line of an ultra marathon setting it up for hours, and assisted at the Stake Pioneer Day Activity with the primary games.
       August: volunteered as a guest reader at the Library Summer Reading Program twice, and drove a friend's kids from Salmon to Boise to be with her.
       September: donated clothes to the clothing fair and spent time putting clothes on tables there too, donated a computer monitor to the elementary school.
       October: volunteered at the elementary's Halloween Carnival
       November: delivered some fudge to Cajsa's home, gave flowers to a woman who did a nice gesture for me.
       December: made and delivered goodies to neighbors and friends, participated in the "Christmas is Sharing" program by purchasing 3 needed gifts for strangers.

December 2014 on FB

December 2: The last time I saw my grandma, I was telling her some of my favorite memories of being in her home with her and grandpa when I was a child, and she said to me "Well...nothing ever stays the same", and I immediately teared up. She's the only one who called me "Sissy" my entire life (she was there when my mom brought me home from the hospital after I was born and my brothers called me that since I was their first sister), and I admit that although I don't like others calling me that, I will miss hearing her refer to me using my childhood nickname!

December 9: I get to perform with my bestie Amanda tonight at a Christmas party. Thanks FrankandAnnette for the opportunity!!

December 12: 12 days until Christmas, and I still haven't done a single Christmas-y thing: we don't have a tree yet, there are no decorations up in the house, I haven't sent cards out, and I have no idea what I will make for neighborhood gifts. This is a first, for sure! At this point, I don't even care if I do any of it, either. I'm feeling "blah" humbug!

December 13: I am looking forward to seeing the high school's play "The Game's Afoot: Holmes for the Holidays" for the second time tonight! But until then, I am going to spend the day cleaning the house so we can bring in a Christmas Tree tomorrow! All of the snow that is falling right now has put me back in the Christmas spirit again!

December 14: I'm a funky sock fan!!! I love colorful and wild socks! However, Josh is much more conservative in the sock department: he only wears solid white or black. He bought a pair of funky socks yesterday and was so happy about getting them that he wore them to church today. I giggled every time I looked at them because they look silly on him, but he really loves them!!! (p.s. He's a Dennis Rodman fan!!!)

December 15: After living in this town for the past 13 years, Josh FINALLY went to the Chinese Restaurant with me for the FIRST time today! Made my day because I usually eat their buffet lunch alone!

December 18: I'm glad I still have one son who is excited to see Santa! The others have outgrown him, unfortunately. I will be sad when I don't have anyone to take to the Library's Pajama Party with Santa anymore (p.s. Salmon peeps--that's tonight)!!!

December 19: I finally came up with an idea for neighbor gifts--but I can't seem to find any clear cellophane wrap ANYWHERE to complete my project!!! Seriously, where do you find this stuff?!!

December 24: Merry Christmas from our family to yours! Josh and I are so glad to have such wonderful friends and family!

 

December 26: I'm so happy we had a white Christmas! We are going sledding for the 3rd day in a row!

December 31: In retrospect, 2014 has been a good year for our family. I'm looking forward to what's to come in 2015, too!!

Top 40 Hits of 2014

Since Billboard has a Top 40 Hit list, we can too!! In keeping with tradition, I've made a Top 40 list of our family's favorite and/or most memorable happenings from 2014 (in chronological order):

1. Skiing with the Perkins family on New Years at Beaver Mountain.

2. Snowboarding for Ammon's birthday.

3. Sledding on the hill by our home when school was cancelled in January.

4. Seeing P!NK in concert.

5. Going bowling as a family for Kanyon's birthday.

6. Kanyon's Valentine's musical performance.

7. Watching a Jimmy Fallon marathon on a relaxing Saturday in February.

8. Ammon receiving his Eagle Scout.

9. Visiting Great Grandma Rose for the last time.

10. Exploring Goblin Valley State Park together in March.

11. Sliding down the giant sand hill in Moab.

12. Jonah finding the golden egg at the Perkins Annual Easter Egg Hunt.

13. Micah & Jonah performing in the play Schoolhouse Rocks.

14. Ammon & Kala going on band tour to Seattle in April.

15. Ammon speaking as a valedictorian at 8th grade graduation.

16. The boys having a water fight in the yard with the LaMont's in May.

17. Hosting the Elder's Quorum party in the yard, and watching the adults rope swing over the ditch.

18. Camping and hiking at Craters of the Moon with the Perkins cousins in June.

19. Seeing Kanyon score goals and block as the goalie in soccer.

20. Attending two weddings of Kala's sisters in the summer.

21. Watching the 4th of July firework show on a picnic blanket in Brigham City.

22. Josh & Ammon motorbiking on several trails while camping at the Big 8 Mile Creek in July.

23. Floating on innertubes as a family for the first time down the Salmon River.

24. Driving around on golf carts at the Salmon golf course one summer evening with Josh and our friends.

25. Swimming at the Rexburg Rapids water park.

26. Watching the buffalo at the hot pots in Yellowstone

27. Eating dinner with friends at the Broken Arrow for Kala's birthday.

28. Hosting an end-of-summer barbecue with friends on a Sunday afternoon in August.

29. Kala rafting on the Salmon River with Kerry and the Lemhi Education Project.

30. Partying at Squealer's Outdoor Fun Center for Jonah & Micah's birthday.

31. Josh & Kala going to Katy Perry's concert in September.

32. Jonah & Micah's football team scoring their first touchdown.

33. Kala & Amanda winning Salmon Idol in October.

34. Having a successful Pumpkin Patch with good weather sales days.

35. Ammon running a great district cross country race, qualifying him for the state race.

36. Eating lunch at Josephine's & dinner at the 28 Club for Josh's birthday.

37. Celebrating Thanksgiving with the Perkins family in Utah, and playing games after dinner.

38. Going to the Linger's friend party on Christmas Eve.

39. Spending Christmas morning at home, and relaxing all day in our pajamas.

40. Playing the radio's oldies contest on New Year's Eve with the Tolman family.

Thanksgiving 2014

We had Thanksgiving with the Perkins family at my parents' home in Tremonton this year. It's been 4 years since we've had Thanksgiving away from home, and I enjoyed it immensely! We drove down from Salmon to Tremonton on Thanksgiving day, and arrived within an hour of dinner. We sat around until everyone arrived and the delicious dinner was served. 

My mom had put name tags on everyone's plates
so we all knew where to sit!

Josh and Bryce watching some football (of course!) before dinner.

Cody's & Trina's families were already at the house when we arrived,
and we had fun playing with cousin Brendan!

As Cody was cutting the turkey,
my dad opened up all the sparkling ciders for us to drink.

The younger kids table was set up in the living room.

Yummy food: turkey, stuffing, rolls, mashed potatoes & homemade gravy, salads,
and yams (YES!! I love yams & Josh's family doesn't eat them at Thanksgiving).

Nothing says "I love Thanksgiving dinner!" quite like this face!

Here's Tabbi's toast to Thanksgiving!

As we ate Thanksgiving dinner, we all took turns talking about what we are grateful for. My mom said she was thankful for the family's sacrifice on her behalf as she's helped out my grandma the past year. My dad talked about a Thanksgiving he's reflected on from serving in Vietnam and being served a traditional American Thanksgiving meal by Vietnamese people who don't even celebrate that holiday. It was interesting to hear all my family's gratitude thoughts. After dinner was done, we sat around for a while, playing games and eating desserts.

Look at all that pie!!!

I had slivers of four pies to fill up my dessert plate: lemon meringue,
pumpkin cheesecake, my homemade pumpkin pie, and coconut cream pie.

Playing Ticket to Ride were Ammon, Aspen, Tabbi, Bryce & Tawna, and Jen.
It was the first time playing this game for half of them. 

We played a rousing game of "Things" where I was the butt of several responses!
In almost every round, there was a "Kala's Mouth" or "My Mom!" as answers!!

I love this photo: Bryce hamming up the camera, Tabbi playing with Sunny,
and Jen hyperfocused on answering the "Things" question.

I got a kick out of watching Abbie and Sunny
using spray cheese on crackers!

Forget having dessert on a plate--
Kanyon filled up his mouth with Cool Whip Spray!

It was an awesome Thanksgiving! Everyone came, and everyone got along, too!! We had a fabulous dinner and dessert, and enjoyed playing games and napping and visiting and laughing with each other! It felt good to be home with my family for the holiday, and I was so grateful for the chance! My kids all had a good time, too, which is another blessing! And that was just the beginning of our Thanksgiving weekend!

On Friday, Josh & I went Black Friday shopping all day, which we also haven't  done in 4 years. Black Friday has changed though, and a lot of the sales were on Thanksgiving Day, which we refused to participate in! We drove over to Logan on Friday morning and went to a TON of stores, and got a lot of our Christmas shopping done that day, which was nice. When we returned to Tremonton that afternoon, the boys were just playing outside in the nice weather at my parents' house, and they'd had a good time relaxing in the quiet house with all the extended family gone.

That night, Josh and I went to the newly renovated Ogden temple and did a session there, while  my mom watched the kids again for us, and it was so enjoyable for me!

On Saturday, we drove to Boise. We did a little bit more shopping with the boys this time, and took them to eat at Five Guys Burgers for the first time. While there, we saw our neighbor from Salmon! What a small world! After dinner, I dropped off Ammon & Josh at the stadium to watch the BSU vs. USU game that night. It was the first time that Ammon had ever been to a college game, and even though it was super late that night and freezing cold, they both had a good time and BSU won!

While they were having fun at the game, I took the other 3 boys to the Edwards Cinema theater in Boise to watch the MockingJay movie. I challenged both of the twins this past summer that if they would read all 3 Hunger Games books before Thanksgiving that I would take them to see the movie. Micah read all 3 books in time, and Jonah was over halfway into the 3rd book, so I accepted it. They liked seeing the movie in a large theater with reclining seats. We also had a good time together.

We spent the night at our friend Krissy's house, even though she was in Salmon celebrating Thanksgiving with her own family. On Sunday morning, we drove home, and Ammon proclaimed this year's Thanksgiving to be the "Best Thanksgiving Ever" which I had to agree!!

It's Autumn Time, It's Autumn Time

We had such a gorgeous fall! It was so warm well into October, and the leaves fell a lot later than usual this year.

On Halloween, we still had flowers blooming, which was so unreal! The weather was so beautiful and I enjoyed the Indian Summer!

Two weeks after Halloween, we went from late summer directly into winter!!! It snowed four inches in one day, and the green grass was instantly covered in white!

There was enough snow to build a snowman, and Jonah and Micah built an awesome one! I didn't think to take photos of it until a few days later, and some of the snow had melted by then, but you can still see some green grass even then!!!

Random Sillies

Sometimes I forget to capture the small moments of our lives on my blog...moments that will fade away if I don't record them. It's the small things that really make memories memorable, and I want to be able to retain them! So here's a few little moments that happened this fall that were silly and brought a smile to my face:

At one of Ammon's Cross Country races in October, Kanyon came with me because he had a dentist appointment in Idaho Falls that same day. It was a good cross country meet for him to go to because it was at Rigby, where there's water to throw rocks into, sand to play in, and a large playground area to climb all over. Before Ammon's race, Kanyon played on the playground. During the race, Kanyon played on the beach. But after the race, I couldn't find him! I had been talking to Ammon and walking along, and suddenly I couldn't see him anymore. There were a LOT of people there, and I searched all over, calling his name, but couldn't find him. I was beginning to panic after 20 minutes of looking with no success. I started tracing over my steps, looking everywhere for the second time, and when I went back to the playground for the 2nd time, I was relieved to finally spot him, and couldn't help but laugh when I found him in this position: 

As I've been looking through Kanyon's school folder at the end of each week, I've started finding drawings and doodles on his math papers. Math is his favorite subject, and apparently he gets done very fast and waits for others to finish, and he's found extra time to practice his sentence structures and art drawings!! I found this first one quite entertaining! And the dragon drawings have become more common lately: I've discovered at least 7 pictures of them in the last three weeks! Kanyon has never been an artistic child (in fact, he used to have tantrums in Kindergarten when it was art time), so seeing him create these freehand drawings have made my heart happy

While we were cleaning and sorting the remainder of our garden's potatoes at the beginning of November, I came across a unique one. It reminded me simultaneously of a Mr. Potato Head with the giant eyes inserted, and also of the character "Sloth" from the Goonies due to the lopsided nature of its eyes. I fell in love with this potato, and its irregularities. Finding it was totally the highlight of that work project for me!

During the 3rd week of November, the elementary school had its parent-teacher conferences and the library's book fair coincided with it, too. I remember loving the book fair and book orders when I was a kid, and I'm glad my boys feel the same about it. They took their money to it, and purchased a new book each, and perused over what new pens/erasers/posters they could get, too. On the last day of the book fair, which was the same day that our conferences were scheduled, Jonah and Micah bought a new pen that had a rubber top with hard plastic balls attached--it looked like a mini jester hat. As soon as we got home, they instantly took apart the top of the pens and created silly goatees out of them instead!!! I would never have though to even do that, and I couldn't stop chuckling at the sight of them!

At the beginning of November, the twins had a week-long school project with a professional Storyteller. The Salmon Arts Council brought her in and she worked with all the 5th grade students teaching them how to be better storytellers. They interviewed people and learned how to retell those stories, they told their own stories, and some created new make-believe stories. Twenty students were selected to share one of their stories in front of an audience at the City Center at the end of that week. Micah was chosen to share the story of how he fell off the haybale last year and split his head open (here's a link to the blog post about it if you want more details: Micah's bloody fall). He did a good job presenting his story in front of the audience, and was kind of silly with his sound effects and quoting me! It made the audience laugh, too!

These are a few of my favorite things: Birthday Edition

I had 3 days of absolute bliss on Josh's birthday weekend in November. I loved it so much; it felt like it was really my birthday, too!! I don't think I've ever felt that before, but I was truly elated and enjoyed spending Josh's birthday weekend with him doing things together that he loves. 

On Friday, November 7 (his actual birthday), we slept in (that's always a gift in itself!!), then went to lunch at Josephine's Pizza in North Fork. This was the last weekend they were open for the season (they close for the winter months), and we just love their food! We had the Vic's special and cheesy breadsticks, and were stuffed full of delicious food when we were done, and we took the leftovers for the kids to eat for dinner (because they were bummed that we didn't let them join us for lunch there)! 

Then we drove up to Gibbonsville because of the High Country Gift Trail specials that were going on, and we stopped at the Broken Arrow Restaurant where our friend Joey was selling some of his framed photo prints. We talked to Joey and Karen for a while, and then Josh bought two pictures: one of an eagle flying amid snowy, mountain surroundings, and one of sunlight shining brightly through dense trees in the dead of winter. He's wanted to buy some of the framed prints for years, and was so glad that he finally did! Gibbonsville is a 45 minute drive from Salmon, so after getting the pictures, we had a peaceful, enjoyable ride home together. 

That evening, I decided to do something different with Josh's birthday gifts. Since he already knew most of the things he was getting, I thought it would be fun to do something different with them than just wrap them up. I told the kids to each pick one gift, and then they would hide it somewhere in the house and write a clue that would go with its location for Josh to have to hunt and find it. This was fun for both Josh and the kids! I gave Josh a birthday card, and in it was a note that he'd have to search for his gifts and the first clue was included, too.

We all laughed watching him go on the treasure hunt, and found hilarity in the locations where the gifts were placed. Ammon's clue was "this is where you leave your laundry", and he knew his dad's habits so well, in fact, that when Josh found his gift in the dryer it was sitting on the clothes that he'd left in there from the last load he'd done!!  It was so funny that the clue was so obviously spot on!! Micah's clue was "this is where you go to watch TV", and he'd set his gift under the couch cushion. Moments earlier, when Josh had been reading his birthday card, he didn't even realize he was sitting on top of his gift, nor did I! I thought Micah had set the gift underneath the couch, and we all bust out laughing when Josh realized where the gift was!

I know this is a terrible photo of Josh bending over, but it does have a good view
of Josh's birthday gift to himself: these Rock Revival jeans!

Jonah's clue was next, and it read "where you go to eat dinner". He'd set the gift inside the drawer at the end of the dining table where Josh's seat is. The gift was almost too small for the drawer, and it took Josh a few minutes to get it out of the drawer, which was so funny because it went into the drawer effortlessly for Jonah! Kanyon's clue was this:

His gift was in the bathtub. We found this one funny because of the spelling of the word "cleo"!! His last clue was from me, and it was "where you go to relax and rest". I'd purposefully made this one tricky. He checked his bed, his reclining chair, and even the toilet!!! I'd put it on the hammock swing outside, and he finally realized it after several minutes of coming up with nothing inside the house. He received some jerky from Kanyon, a summer sausage roll from Micah, his favorite cereal Cracklin Oat Bran from Jonah, a biker gnome from Ammon, and a comfortable stadium chair from me.

That night, we went to the hot springs with Amanda, and had a good soak. There was a fire going in the outdoor pit, which we hardly ever have at that hot springs, and it was nice to warm up before and after soaking!

Josh's hooded face in the firelight reminded me of
Pocahontas' grandmother that speaks from the side of the tree.
Can you see the resemblance?!!

His birthday was such a happy, enjoyable day, but the fun didn't end there! On Saturday night, we went out with our friends John, Amanda, and Brad. We ate dinner at the 28 Club (Josh's favorite restaurant), and thankfully they had one last piece of prime rib for him (his favorite thing to eat there). We laughed and talked and ate well and had such a good time together. Then we went out to karaoke and dancing afterwards (one of our favorite activities to do with our friends), and the fun just continued! We had such a fabulous night with our friends! On Sunday, we invited his parents over for dinner, and Josh cooked his own birthday meal of steak (his favorite food to make) and I made the mashed potatoes and gravy.

His birthday celebration had the makings of all of his (and a lot of mine) favorite things: spending alone time together, having fun with our family, going out with our friends, and eating fantastic food!! Thanks for sharing your awesome birthday with me, babe!