Birthdays and more birthdays!

We have been very busy celebrating birthdays these past couple of weeks! February 21st was my dear husband's 35th birthday! Gabriela and I took him to P.F. Changs for dinner to celebrate, which we all love. Gabriela told me she wanted to buy daddy a present. So, I decided to make it into a little lesson and I said "OK, I'll take you to the store but you have to use your own money for it" to which she answered "but mommy! I only have $1, I'll only be able to buy him gum with that! But, wait! I think I have a $20 gift card for Target that I haven't used!" and off we were to Target to buy daddy his birthday present. The whole ride to the store she was telling me that she knew exactly what to buy him for his birthday. It was this board game that looked like dominoes but it wasn't dominoes and ....

As we arrive at Target, she practically dragged me to the Toys section to find the board game. Her face lit up and she was about to grab it when she saw the price: $21.99... "Oh, mannnnn... I can't buy him this game. Bummer!" So she starts looking for other options, until finally she settled for a $1.99 deck of cards. "Mommy, this is perfect! OK, now I need to buy something for ME!" Spoken like a true woman honey... "Ooh, mommy, look this is what I want!" Then she looks at the price of her future toy on one hand, and looks at daddy's present on the other hand. I look at her and tell her "Yep, and then you have to add taxes to that" Her shoulders drop, her face is deflated, she looks at me and says "Oh, mommy, I hate taxes!" And I respond "I do too, sweety... I do too"

She ended up finding a more reasonable "I bought daddy a present so now it's my turn" toy and still ended up with extra money on her card.

On Friday March 4th was my 34th birthday! WOW... I can't believe I'm this old already... although my baggy eyes and gray hair definitely remind me every day. Hahaha! I totally look at those 20 minute infomercials with the magical melon extract that will make me look like Cindy Crawford in a whole new light. Hmm, let me google that melon... I do have some wrinkles here... she really looks awesome at forty-something! Oh, the joy of getting older.

But wrinkles aside, I had a wonderful birthday. I got tons of love from my two munchkins at home, they took me out to dinner and got me a mini-massage since I've been working such long hours. I received lots of phone calls and birthday wishes. It was great!

Estas ultimas semanas hemos estado bien ocupados celebrando cumplea#os por aqui! El 21 de febrero mi esposito cumplio sus 35 primaveras! Para celebrar lo sacamos a cenar a uno de nuestros restaurantes favoritos. Le cantamos y lo dejamos que tubiera la razon todo el dia! Ja ja ja! Unos dias despues, el 4 de marzo fue mi turno. Me toco celebrar mis 15 de nuevo Ja ja ja! De verdad que no puedo creer que tan rapido pasa el tiempo, pero las arruguitas en los ojos y las canitas me lo recuerdan todo los dias. Pero gracias a la tecnologia de hoy en dia, para todo hay una cremita!

Mommy's Birthday Dinner. We're not so great with the self-portraits.
El cumple de mami. Obviamente nos falto apuntar mejor!

At Daddy's birthday. En el cumple de papi

Happy Birthday! Feliz Cumplea#os!