Recently i've been a little busy with the planning bug for my dear hubby Brock. January 21st was hi 26th birthday so I was busy preparing all the secret surprises I had in store for him WHILE keeping up with my diet and gym regime. Even though I had a lot of events planned for him, I still wanted to actually give him a gift for his birthday. So on the morning of his birthday before we both left for work, I gave him a bottle of L'Homme cologne from YSL. It smelled really nice on him and I think it made him feel like a "grown up" :). Even though he doesn't wear cologne a lot, I know he likes to wear it for special occasions so it would be put to good use. The whole day went just like normal, traffic, work, traffic, home. He was having a rough day at work, and being a Friday, everything had to be done before he could go home. I told him I had a surprise dinner set for him at 8pm so he rushed out of the office to come pick me up and off we went. We made it home just in time for him to run in the house and change his shirt and head out. He had no idea where we were going and I loved watching him try to figure it out but never actually get it. He's difficult to surprise, so I felt good about this one :) We pull up to the restaurant which was really close to our house, and he gets out to see it's a place he had been trying to go to for a few months now, BENIHANA'S!!!! I had never been before but knew Brock liked it, so I decided to give it a try and see what all the hype was about. We walked in, and it was packed! good thing I made reservations 2 weeks earlier! We sat at the bar, ordered a couple drinks, then we were at our table. The chef was cool and did all kinds of tricks for us but there was sooooo much food, that I was full with the appetizers before I even got my main meal. I felt so bad, I didn't eat A BITE of my main entree food. It looked yummy too. But I took it home and ate it the next day and it was still super yummy!
The next big part was the birthday party I had been planning for him. I hit up all of his and my friends and invited everyone over to celebrate Brock's over-the-hill-ness :) It turned out great and we had a lot of fun! Here are some pics from the shin-dig
So then after that I spent a lot of time on Sunday taking care of Brock who wasn't feeling too well after he had played a few too many games of beer pong...
The next weekend I took Brock on a surprise weekend trip to the Hyatt hotel in Huntington Beach. We had driven past in hundreds of times and I originally wanted to have our wedding there, but it's super pricy. So I got a good deal online and we stayed there for a night and each got an hour massage! We had a gorgeous view of the courtyard and we were on the top floor so we could see right over everything and straight to the ocean. It was awesome! And..they had robes in the hotel room!! I've always wanted to stay in a room with robes, it makes me feel fancy :) Last time we were at a nice hotel they only had 1 robe in the closet....good thing for me Brock doesn't have an obsession like I do for robes :) We hung out with his Aunt's and Uncle's that live down there and went out for a fancy dinner. Everything went great until we got drenched by a random rain storm while walking down the pier to Ruby's! Then we came out after eating and it was all bright and sunny again! Watever.... Here are some pictures from our weekend!
So that's what's been going on so far in our lives. Our next project is trying to slowly take my grandma's house that I live in out of the 60's and into the current time frame. We already finished re-doing the lighting and fixtures in the bathroom and next we're going to paint and spruce some things up. Nothing major, just updating a little here and there. Wish us luck! :)
-Heather
