Sam's Double Birthday Surprise

Wednesday marked Sam's 27th Birthday. If you have been following my blog for a long time you know that birthdays aren't a big deal because we don't really do much for each other. Here is what happened for Sam's birthday last year. I'm not the only one bad about birthdays- I asked Sam last weekend "Did you get me anything for my birthday? If so, do you remember what it was?" His answer: "I have no idea.".  Yeah- we're that couple.  

On my way to work on Monday I realized I had one personal day that I needed to use by the end of the month or I was going to lose it. So that meant I had to take it sometime this week. Once I put two and two together; Sam birthday & my extra day off, I knew I want to do something special for him this year but a plan needed to be made.

My first idea was to surprise him at work with lunch and cookie cake. I have been asking Sam for months now about meeting up for lunch being the he works right down the street from my school. So I figured- if he hasn't set up a lunch date, I will- behind his back! After a few emails between a friend I know who works with Sam, we had set the whole thing up with his boss so I could come in and surprise him.  

 

If this surprise wasn't enough, I decided that if I surprised him once, he really wouldn't expect a second. So I called our friends in the area and his family to come over for a surprise dinner.


In order to pull off the whole day of events- I had to convince Sam that I had to work (which I did for two hours- but that's another story) so I made myself get up, get dressed for work, and left the house at the normal time to go to work. However, little did Sam know, when I left for the house I was going to the store to buy his cookie cake and other items for his surprise dinner.

When I was originally trying to figure out the menu for the party, I knew I wanted to have food that was quick, affordable, and allowed for people to customized their meal. So what better then having a Mexican Fiesta- taco bar! It went over really well, and it allowed for a lot of snacking while we waited for Sam to get home. 

Surprise! Nothing better then a sweaty hubby after coming home from the gym. He was surprised, but he did kind of figured out something was up before he got into the kitchen because he saw the extra chairs around the dinning room table. Oh... the dinning room chairs- well I'll keep that in mind if I throw him another surprise party.

 

We have great family and friends. They always shower us with so much love. We are so blessed.

It was a great night and I know Sam had a great birthday. Here's to another year old, wiser, and hopefully more awesome than the last!

Lazy Pet Parenting

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend so far. Here's a little entertainment for your Saturday night. Lazy pet parenting at its finest.

Hey whatever works. Have a great weekend!

MyFitnessPal Check II

 So it's been about 2 months since I've checked in about my progress using the MyFitnessPal App. Last time I checked in the scale was at this...

 

And at this point- I had lost 5 pounds since returning from my vacation. Now that it's been a another two months here was the scale has looked since I last checked in...

 

I love that I'm still see that scale has been continuing to go down and MyFitnessPal progress report shows the consistent downward trend.

And when I got on the scale yesterday- this is what I saw...

 

I won't lie, I didn't update my MyFitnessPal with this new weight (or even my 182.2) because I'm worried that it's just fluke and that number is really higher then what the scale reads. I know that's a little crazy but that's how I feel. 

Last year in June, I was on a workout kick and I wrote this post about how my weight goes up and down so much day to day. For this reason, that's why I'm weird about logging my weight lose because I don't really trust the scale. Looking back on this post, I'm happy I weight less now than I did then. Do I realized that over a course of a year a lot more work could have been done, but now that I have found something that seems to be working, I hope the scale just keeps heading in one direction- down.

If you want to be "friends"on MyFitnessPal- you can find me by my email: ssdarke@yahoo.com or username is "ssdarke".

Riding Out the Storm

The titled of the post doesn't have any deep seed meaning but a literal meaning of- there is a hell of a storm coming our way.

 

I knew that a storm was coming this morning, so I made sure I brought my umbrella. However, the storm was predicted to be so bad that the university I work for closed at 5pm. I was excited because that meant I got to leave a hour early. However, you should have seen the mad rush to get off campus. The driveway to leave became a parking lot.

I made it home with no problems, and now I'm going to be parked on the couch for the rest of the night. I got two forms of entertainment for the evening-

1. The Hawks game! (I love me some hockey.)

2. My cat and his new laser toy we just bought him. (We should have gotten one of these months ago. He loves it- I think more than he loves us.)

I hope everyone has a save and dry night.

A Song That Has A Real Message

So I was driving home today from the gym and a song came on the radio. I had never heard it before, but the words were so powerful I can't stop listening. I even made it home before the song was over, and I had to let it finish before I got out. Most songs today are fun, dumb, or both. However, this song has a real message. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - SAME LOVE feat. MARY LAMBERT

No judgment, just love.

Weekend Events

Hi Everyone-

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Lucky for me this weekend wasn't spent on the couch like the weekend before was. This weekend I got to enjoy these things...

 

Sam did some of his fancy cooking and made a "strawberry bruschetta". It was made with fresh strawberries, fresh mint, a strawberry balsamic vinegar, and a little sugar. He paired it with toasted french bread and goat cheese. Like I said- fancy cooking.

Also this happen...

Saturday was so nice out that we had people over for a grill out and bonfire. However, the Hawks game was on and we didn't want to miss the game- so the TV had to come outside. It worked out pretty well.

 

Sunday was filled with... yard work. Boo...but we are finally done getting all the river rock out of our landscaping. This project has taken a few weeks, so hopefully by the end of next week I can finally show you an "after" picture of this landscaping project that has taken up so many hours of our life.  

I hope you all have had a nice Monday, and I hope you have a great week!

Sick of Being Sick

Hi Everyone! I hope your weekend is going better than mine. I've been sick for the last two days, and I'm not feeling better yet. So lucky me- I get to stay home and not hanging out with any of my friends. Boo.. But I'm being good and I'm keeping my germy self away from everyone else. At least I got Shamrock to keep me company.

 

I'm following the rules for being "Sick101"- I've ate my cup noodles, I'm camped out on the couch, and watching free movies on-demand.

 

Being sick sucks! I just hope I feel better soon so my whole weekend isn't wasted on the couch.