A Birthday for Jon!

It was Jon's birthday on Sunday... we had a dinner party with friends on Saturday night in celebration of his birthday...

so Sunday was more of a low-key, Jon gets to pick wherever he wants to go and whatever he wants to do kind of day. :)

We started out with church... and then off to his favorite Mexican restaurant, La Playa. He orders the same exact thing every single time we go. He lives on the edge. ;)

Happy tummy... full of fajitas.

Next stop... the bookstore! (AKA Jon's idea of a good time. I can't argue with that.)

And then to... Guitar center! (AKA Jon's idea of heaven on earth. I CAN argue with that. But today he can choose whatever he likes and I will be a good sport. Really. I even played the drums and made an arse out of myself.)

Jon...live in concert.

Oh, be still my heart! A man with a banjo!

Keep those sweet banjo strings a playin'!

Moving on to the drums...

Which concluded our hands on experience in the Guitar Center.

What is that, you ask? Did we stop for gas?

Yes. Yes we did.

Speak up... You want to see a picture of Jon squeegeeing the windows?

Naturally.

haha. He loves it.

Want to know what I love?

The Thirst Universe. That looks like a picture I would have drawn on my folder in high school. Or on my bedroom walls when I painted a mural of the night sky. Does it count as a "mural" if you painted all of the walls? True story. Don't make me bust out the pictures as evidence.

And we came home to be lazy and eat cake. The end.

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Weekend Recap: Going to the Big Top!

Well... sort of. The circus came to town!!! I'm talking Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus!!!
I could hardly contain myself... here we go:

Jon hates when I take his picture when he squeegees the windows. haha It makes me want to do it even more...

Trying to escape... haha... why does this picture look like I've just caught a rare snippet of a mythical creature... like Bigfoot or Sasquatch? Not that he looks like one... but just his positioning trying to get away from the camera. haha

Extending an olive branch via pre-circus picture. Ok... we are ready!

Did you know that the circus still arrives via train?? Like just on the Animal Crackers package!! No joke... here it is!! It is one of the longest trains in America... over a mile long! (That's what Jon told me anyway... I'll double check this fact later.)

Giddy as a school girl.

Bring on the show!

Intermission:

I think this guy enjoys the tighty tight tights and spandex tiger shirt unbuttoned down to his navel... he considers this one of the best "perks" of the job.

I love to watch the Trapeze artists! I want to wear glittery tights. :(

The elephants were my favorite!

Jon... leaving the circus... as giddy as a school girl.

Then we stopped at Chick-fil-a....to refuel... and off to Michaels. I caught word that they may have put Spooky Town out. Ok, I might have a mild obsession with Halloween. I can't help it; it is my favorite time of year. And, technically, I believe it is fair game to start putting up fall/Halloween decorations on September 1st. Needless to say, it just about made my day to see Spooky Town displayed in all of its spooky glory!! I looked. I admired. I wanted. But, I didn't get anything... I didn't have my coupon and I certainly would not pay full spooky town prices. Instead, I took the 2009 Spooky Town brochure home to study. ;) Don't you remember when the Sears Catalog came out right around Christmas time when you were a kid? You'd lose your mind... circling everything that you just had to have? This is the modern day Sears catalog for me. ;) One day... one day I will collect the whole village and be the freak lady in the neighborhood with half of the living room set up to display Spooky Town during Halloween. haha Yep, that will be me; I have big aspirations for my life.

After a quick lap around Best Buy (I think that is Jon's way of detoxing all of the craftiness he digested while in Michaels)... we headed over to JoAnn's to get some fabric for a couple projects that I'm working on. And, when exiting the store, lo and behold... the orange light was on in all of it's beautiful Krispy Kreme glory!!!

How do you make a good day perfect? Answer: One warm glazed donut!

No. Thank YOU Krispy Kreme!

And we drove off into a beautiful Texas sunset and lived happily ever after.

Oh, yeah. One more thing. Dolly got a BIG bone. haha... She guarded it with her LIFE!

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