Happy Birthday Dan! (March)

Hi All,

As you know I made a resolution to start blogging at least once a month this year! Alas, I have already fallen behind. No worries though, since this post is only 6 days late it doesn’t really count as a failure. March was a decently busy month for us, though for some reason I am drawing a blank! Let’s see what I can remember…

Dan turned 25!! Yep, I’m married to an old geezer these days. He got treated very special during his birthday week, partially thanks to all the birthday clubs we’re signed up for! One weeknight he was craving a big burger so we took our coupon and went to Red Robin – delish! Thank goodness for coupons, or we would never go out! ;) On Friday night (courtesy of another coupon) we got Cold Stone ice cream for dessert. Saturday was a pretty chill day; other than going out for a walk and getting groceries, we didn’t do a whole lot. But in the evening we got to do his favorite thing about his birthday – go out to Texas Roadhouse! Big thanks goes out to my parents for their generous son-in-law birthday gift of treating us to dinner. Otherwise that place is just too expensive; so he looks forward to it all year. On Sunday, his actual birthday, I got up early to make his favorite breakfast – French toast, with scrambled eggs, bacon, and orange juice. Yay me! And that was about it. Other than lots of food, he didn’t really want to make a big deal of his quarter-century milestone. But we had fun, and just enjoyed spending time together (which, with me working and him in school, doesn’t happen as often as we’d like).

I also finally got my new camera this month! After a lot of going back and forth, I finally settled on getting the Canon EOS Rebel T3i. So far I’m liking it a lot, having fun going out and playing with it, but I still have a ton of learning to do on just where everything is on it and how to manipulate all the settings to what I want! I’ll get there. Dan is loving it too; a couple times a week he’ll excitedly ask me if we can go out and take pictures! It’s cute watching him play with MY toy. I’ll admit, I’m definitely no expert yet (and I still desperately need to learn how to work stupid photoshop!) but here’s a couple pictures! If anyone in my area ever wants cheap/free pictures and would be willing to be test subjects for me to practice on, let me know! Cause as of yet I’m not very good at photographing people.

What else? Oh yes, Dan is applying to the MAcc program in April so he has been very busy making sure he gets good grades! He also recently applied for some Summer Leadership programs with the major accounting firms and got accepted for 2 of them! Which, you should know, is awesome. I’m very proud.

We didn’t do anything for Easter, sadly. As much as I love holidays, it’s hard for me to find things to do when it’s just the two of us and no other family. I did make Easter cupcakes, but that’s it. We also got our special Easter eggs from my mom and a huge bag of Cadbury mini eggs! Yum!

(Yes, I'm aware this isn't actually a great picture at all, but!) Dan sure loves this little dog! I'm still completely against a bulldog - maybe one day I'll change my mind! He sure is cute.