Bryan's Birthday

Bryan's birthday falls in that too close to Christmas range that I hate. I love birthdays and think everyone's should be really special. I hate that his is so close to Christmas and sometimes gets overlooked. I have tried to make it special each year. This year was no different. We planned a family celebratory dinner at Upper Crust (uppercrust.ehsrg.com). I love these times with all of us. One of the things I miss the most about being home! Then Chris and the White's came up and met us. We watched the entire Thunder game and it seemed like everyone just got there. Nice to have friends to come home too and nice that they all get along-as throughout the night the boys were planning our destination vacation round two for this summer! Another nice surprise was that Shar and her family happened to be eating there that night. I got to catch up with her too.

Upper Crust is one of my okc favs because you can share everything, except your drink-the sangria there is too good to share!! Bryan and I split a market fresh salad and a numbers pizza along with the calamari and wings for the table. All really tasty!

The next morning was his real birthday. I surprised him with his gifts in bed when he woke up! Bryan's favorite meal is breakfast by far-so I figured since this was our last day, he and I would grab a bday breakfast to celebrate. We ran up to Classen Grill, just like old times. Normally I order the Colorado, but B did this time and I had quesadilla. Talk about some great, filling breakfast. This was it!

 Took a pic of the Colorado because I was trying to tell my step bro, Jeff, about it and didn't do it justice. Now, here it is!

After breakfast, Bryan and I drove around OKC returning gifts, shopping for more and driving by the house we are hoping to buy. Such fun, quality time. My love language used to be QT, and after days like this, I can tell it is still close to the top. There isn't anything better for me, alone time with my hubs!

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that my mom and I made Bryan a homemade ice cream cake, his fav. So after getting home from playing in the city, we ate cake for lunch! We only had a few hours left together, so we took a nap together and didn't really separate more than a couple feet at any time. It will be three weeks before I see him again...Think he had a good bday though.

He drove me to the airport and then headed south to Houston. I switched planes in Dallas and got on one of the coolest planes I've ever been on. It had blue ambient lighting, see below. Also, the overhead bins were airplane ergonomic, tons of leg room and space in general. Plus wifi-always a bonus on flights over 3 hrs. Unfortunately, as we were about to taxi, the pilot came on and said there were dents in one of our engines and we all needed to deboard. ugh...We ended up leaving about 2 hrs later and I got home around 2.30 am to work that next morning.

The nice thing about my Friday work was that it was light! Only a couple things to take care of. Since it was light, my boss invited a few of us to a bar called Bemelman's in the Carlyle Hotel. This place is the ultimate in swank! Supposedly, the hotel is where JFK used to meet Marilyn. My friends went on a random Saturday afternoon this fall and one of the Olsen twins sat right next to them.

As you can see, it started off kind of slow, but by the time we left-there were people standing outside the door waiting for seats. Great drinks, great conversation. We talked about the 6 drinks that changed the world-good book apparently. I googled it after, it is kind of interesting!

After drinks I was really feeling the late night before, but knew the OU game was coming on at 10 here. I had to push through. I went for coffee to aid. Here are my cousin's seats. My little brother went to. So jealous!! Really glad we finally won.

I couldn't make it through the entire game unfortunately. I had these guys waiting on me and we fell asleep in the living room after the first quarter. Boomer Sooner!