Aaron's 25th Birthday!

First off I want to thank all of you for sending cards! It was really a lot of fun. He ended up with 26 cards!!! So bravo to you guys for helping me with the cards! I wish you all could have come over to help us celebrate! We ended up going out for dinner and a for a few drinks. Here are some birthday pictures...However I forgot to actually take pictures while we were out...oops!

I decorated :) Super easy if you want to re-create this just cut out a bunch of circles and sew them together. I actually still have them up, its just fun to look at and really brings a lot of color to the hall way!

It would have been fun to have a little get together, it was festive!

Meeka wanted to play ball instead of decorate.

 Notice how the dogs are a complete blur. They get sooooo excited when Aaron gets home.

Opening cards! 

I guess this is excited.... He's pretty special ;)

He had fun reading all the cards and seeing who they were from.

You guys sent some really great ones.

We laughed a lot!

Meeka was not having as much fun as we were.

Then there was this.....

Chocolate cake with chopped up peanut butter cups in the batter slathered in peanut butter buttercream frosting covered with chopped up peanut butter cups....DROOL!

Aaron LOVED it.

Another reason I wish all of you could have come here- to help eat this cake!

26 Birthday cards!

You guys rock. We are so lucky to have friends and family like you. Thank you again for all your help!

Home improvements

Just some new things around the house I wanted to share.

 Our peep hole needed some sprucing up. We love "Friends" so this is our tribute to the show! 

 This is in the hallway leading to the kitchen and the bedroom.

The quote says "Life isn't about the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away"

I love our apartment! It makes me happy!

Saturday Night Blackout

This is what our Saturday Night looked like:

It all started at about 5:30 just as I was about to start dinner and the power clicked off. Since we didn't know how long it would last we didn't want to open the fridge. So we decided we would walk around and find a cheap place to eat. It wasn't until we were leaving that we realized the rest of the building still had power. We ended up eating at a sushi place we found a couple weeks ago, it was delicious. When we got home we still didn't have power and so we called the electric company to make sure there was nothing wrong with our account and that there wasn't any reason on their end that the power should be out. We were told that it was probably a fuse and to call the building supervisor to replace it. We called and called, and called, finally at about 11pm we got ahold of him to come fix it. We went to bed and sometime at around midnight the it kicked back on. The super called and said that it wasn't a fuse but that the wires are in really bad shape and one had broken, but that he had rigged it to work until Monday when he could call the company and have them come fix it. We actually lost power again Sunday evening for about an hour, we were hoping he wasn't going to get electrocuted while fixing it again. Hopefully it gets fixed, from what he told us it is really bad. 

 We had planned on watching a movie, but instead we kicked it Dominica style and played cards by candle light.

 I won :)

Aaron was checking the rules.

 Happy Monday!! OH and  VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GRANDPA! :)