My 24th Birthday Weekend Recap!

I had a great birthday and a great weekend! Thanks for all of the birthday wishes :)

On Thursday after my fun "work" birthday I headed home to my parents house for the weekend. We hung out and had dinner and then headed to bed, a simple nice relaxing night.

On Friday, which was my real birthday I slept in late, hung out in my jammies, and even took a nap! It was glorious! Then at 5pm we had Bocce Ball reservations at Campo di Bocce! We've been there before and had a great time, and you can play for free on your birthday, so we headed on over!

The Bocce Ball Court

Dad, Clay, and my Mom walking to the other side of the court

Josh and Clay being dorks

Beautiful Livermore Valley

Joshy and I :)
(wearing my new clothes from my shopping trip last weekend!)

We played in teams - Old People vs. Young People and my parents killed us, their score was 2X ours haha... we even tried cheating but nothing worked.

After Bocce we went out to dinner and then got some frozen yogurt at TCBY! Then we headed home so I could open my gifts!

My parents gave me a certificate to have the Jetta serviced! Thank goodness because she hit 75K miles awhile ago and is in dire need of an oil change and 75K mile service! Yay!
My brother got me the board game Balderdash!
And Josh totally surprised me and got me a new camera!!!! I have been wanting one forever! I'm so excited because my old Canon was 6 years old and only had 5 mega pixels hahaha... can you say ghetto??! The new one has 14 mega pixels and panoramic picture options! Such an improvement! :) Thanks Joshy!!
After presents we headed to bed because we had big plans for Saturday!

We got up bright and early and headed to San Francisco. We have already seen all of the major attractions in SF so we thought it might be fun to give the Duck Tours a try.

It is this old war time vehicle that can go on land or sea.

Josh, Dad, and Mom waiting to get on it!

On The Duck!

The tour took us all over SF!

We saw Alcatraz

"Rice a Roni" Hill

Fun Murals

China Town

All the while we quacked on the nerdy quackers they gave us haha

Then we made our way into the SF Bay

And I even got to drive it! I made a huge turn too, it was pretty neat!

We drove past AT&T Park - Home of the SF Giants

Joshy and I

Dad and Mom

Saw a bunch of ships!

Then after the Duck Tour we headed over to Pier 39 for some lunch!

We ate at WipeOut, which was yummy and had HUGE portions!

The we had to get ice cream! :)

After walking Pier 39 for a bit we headed over to The Walt Disney Family Museum which is also in SF

They only allowed pictures in this one room, which displayed furniture from Walt's Disneyland Apartment

The museum was interesting and really informative, but because the weather was abnormally AMAZING for the city it made being in a museum kinda over rated so I wasn't as impressed as I would have been on a boring rainy day haha, but we got to learn some neat facts about Walt and his family so not all was lost.

After SF we headed home. Josh was kind enough to drive while my dad, mom, and I all took naps in the car haha. When my brother Clay got home from work he had his new 'girl friend' come over so we could all meet her. She was really nice and stayed for dinner - which my mom had made French Dip YUMM!!!

Then after dinner we played a game of Balderdash up in the turret of my parents house. We had such a great time and almost peed our pants a few times from laughing so hard!

Then it was funfetti cake time, and then bed!

On Sunday Josh came over to my parent's house and we went for a bike ride in the vineyards!

It was 95 degrees out - so beautiful!

Cheese!

We even saw the neighbor's baby cows

The house with our flag out for Memorial Day!

Then Josh and I watched/sorta helped my dad renovate his camper, I got a sunburn, and I gave the dogs a bath.

Then we filled up their doggy pool for them to cool off in, Bo was really happy :)

He loves laying in it!

After playing with the dogs a bit we headed home, unpacked, ran a few errands and then called it a night because I had to work on Monday.

All in all it was a WONDERFUL weekend!! I had such a great time seeing my family and relaxing away from work! I hope everyone else had a great Memorial Day Weekend too!

-Katie

iPhone Foto Friday - It's My Birthday! :)

Yay! Today is my birthday!!!!

I'm the big 2 4 now! yikes!

I've already had quite a few fun things happen for my birthday! On Tuesday Stephanie made me an AWESOME funfetti cake with pink funfetti frosting which I had NEVER seen before!!!

It was deeelish! Thanks Steph :)

She also spoiled me with a bunch of fun baking goods! She obviously knows me too well!!

Then yesterday was my "work" birthday, which was the last day I was at work before my real birthday. The girls at work were great and brought me flowers and cake and even took me out to lunch and showered me with gifts! :)

One wonderful co-worker who was off yesterday even surprised me and had flowers delivered to work!! I was so surprised! They were beautiful and smelled wonderful!!
Thanks Bethany!! :)

Our Stock Room Manager is this wonderful Mexican lady named Lala, I love her. We always talk in Spanish because she is determined to have me bilingual! Anyways, she is just so precious and I love her - did I already mention that? Well I do.

She went to this great Mexican Bakery and had a birthday cake made for me! And the poor thing didn't know how to spell Katie! So sweet though! :)

Lala also brought me these beautiful flowers, which I put in a vase as soon as I got home to my parent's house last night, aren't they pretty?!

I felt like I was driving a florist delivery car on my way from work to my parent's house because I had so many pretty flowers in my car! It was great!

So that concludes my 24 Birthday Edition of iPhone Foto Friday!!
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Annnnnndddd as if all of those great birthday treats weren't enough, I am so thankful and EXCITED to have Today, Saturday, and Sunday off this weekend to celebrate my birthday with my family and friends! We have a few really fun things planned so get ready for a fun update next week!

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend Everyone!! :)

-Katie

Josh's Birthday Adventures and Surprises!

Warning: SUPER long post! My Apologies!

Yesterday was Josh's birthday and we decided we would go to Muir Woods, which is a National Monument we have been wanting to visit for some time now. It was so beautiful, but of course it didn't take long for the walk to become a disaster - more on that later....

Here is Josh next to a tree trunk thing that was dated back to 960 AD!!!!!!! So old!

The redwood trees were so pretty

The SUPER tall Redwood trees!

Me!

Right before all hell broke loose.

So about half way through the hike my legs started itching really bad. I remembered that I had shaved my legs that morning, (side note: I am allergic to basically every form of tree and grass) so with my freshly shaved legs with open pores on a windy day in a freaking redwood FOREST - the pollen naturally found its way into my pores. The itching got worse and WORSE. Then it was to the point of painful, and then I was getting light headed. I was itching and it was spreading all over my lower body super quick and was really unbearable.

So even though we were in such a beautiful setting with half of the trail left to go, we had no other option but to run the rest of the way. There was honestly no other option, I knew if I didn't rinse my legs off soon I was going to pass out or have some sort of panic attack haha. So we looked like idiots, running down the trail.
Then we finally made it to the park restrooms where I gave myself a quick water and paper towel wipe down, which somewhat eased the pain/itching long enough for us to run to the car. But of course, in the mean time, the wind was still acting up and my legs were at it again in no time. So once we got back to the Jetta I stripped down to my underwear (by this time the itching was creeping up my back too) and then I took another water and paper towel bath/wipe down. Luckily it started feeling much better once I was in the car and out of the wind, and I had damp napkins all over my legs. UGH!

We had originally planned to eat our yummy lunch that we packed along the trail, but that of course didn't happen. As soon as I was done car bathing I ordered Josh to get us out of the freaking redwood forest ASAP!

Once we were far enough away from the forest we pulled over on the side of the road and had our lunch! By this time I was feeling much better with food in my tummy and my legs cooling off.

The view of the bay from the Sausilito side

The Road, with some tourists of course

Then we came home and showered to get the pollen off of us, and then we headed out to run a few errands (or so Josh thought!) I told him I needed to get a price adjustment on a pair of jeans I recently bought, which was true, in order to get him to the mall so that I could surprise him with his gift!

As a little background info, Josh makes iPhone Apps, but he doesn't have a Mac, so he has to use his Mom's computer whenever he wants to work on them. So needless to say he has been wanting a Mac for a while now. In addition, his birthday is this month, our anniversary next month, and Christmas in December, so I decided rather than spend a bunch of money for each occasion on things he may not really need/want, I would give him one large gift for all three things: A Mac Laptop!

There was only one problem: they are expensive, and what I had budgeted would only cover the basic MacBook, which I know he would like, but I knew for the money, it would be a much better investment to get him the upgraded MacBook Pro. So I thought and thought and came up with a solution: call in reinforcements!

So here is how it all went down: a complete surprise to Josh, thanks to my genius-ness.

First Step: I collected a card and $ from my parents, Josh's parents, his sister, and my brother to go along with my card. Then we went to the mall to do my price adjustment. After that we started to walk towards the door when I handed Josh the birthday card that I made for him :) In side it said how for his birthversarymas present I was going to get him a MacBook! He was so excited, and we instantly headed towards the Apple store!
Once inside, we went up to the bottom of the line MacBook which I told him I was going to get him, and then I haded him a card from my parents, which said that as their gift they were going to upgrade him to the MacBook Pro 13"!

Then after that card I handed him another card that was from his parents that said they were going to upgrade him to the MacBook Pro 15"!

Then I gave him another card from his sister that said for her gift she was going to upgrade him to the Anti-Glare Screen Option! By this time Josh was getting overwhelmed with all of the cards, and really embarrassed that I was taking pictures inside the Apple store hahaha

Then I handed him the last card which was from my brother that said he was going to get Josh the InCase brand case for his new laptop!

After all of the card craziness was over we asked one of the associates for help, so we could get the laptop, but sadly they were out of the one Josh wanted! Boo! So we went home and ordered it online and it should be here by the end of the week! yay! :)

After the mall we headed to Best Buy so Josh could spend some gift cards he had, then we headed home to hang out until it was time to go out for his birthday dinner. Little did Josh know there was one more surprise in store for him even though he asked me point blank: "Are there any more surprises!??" And of course I lied and said no! haha

Anyways, his parents drove up for dinner and surprised Josh, which was a lot of fun. Sadly his sister had to work last night at Victoria's Secret so she couldn't join us for dinner, so after dinner we went back to the mall and brought some yummy Cupcakes from Sift along and she was able to celebrate with us on her break!

The cupcake place only had cupcake sparklers - not candles - and we were going to lite all of them but there was a security guard watching us the whole time, so we just lit three haha

Then we came home and went for a quick walk, put our jammies on, watched Hell's Kitchen, and went to bed. It was a great day and I am so thankful I got to spend it with Josh and make it so special for him :)

I Love You Joshy! Happy Birthday!

-Katie