one year older, wiser, and sexier

my man turned 24 yesterday! with every year he just keeps getting better and better (since i've known him since he was 18 i feel like i can say that). he really is such a wonderful husband, friend, son, son-in-law, student, worker, teacher, priesthood holder, and man. i feel so blessed to be married to him and to share our lives together.

it was fun having his birthday on a sunday and being able to celebrate together all day, unfortunately the weekend didn't go exactly as planned...

saturday morning at 3am i woke up feeling extremely nauseous, hot, and sick and knew i was going to throw up. and i did. repeatedly. while kyle held my hair back and cleaned out the bowl. (still not sure if it was food poisoning or a stomach bug, but it was definitely a surprise attack of misery)
well, long story short, i ended up being way to sick to go to work that day (and came close to losing my job because of it--eek!) and i did not leave my bed, except to go to the bathroom, from friday evening until sunday morning. annnd i slept for an impressive 20 hours!

so my sweet husband cancelled his plans for saturday to hang out with his friends and then cancelled the reservation i had made for his birthday dinner that night at our favorite pizzeria 712. instead of celebrating that night, my poor husband spent his time taking care of his sick, smelly, wife.

sunday (kyle's actual birthday) i felt better enough to leave the bed! and i was determined to make my hubby's birthday a special day.
so to start the day off right i whipped up a quick birthday breakfast of french toast. well back-up, before i did anything yesterday, i took a much. needed. shower.
then breakfast, then i had to rest a little.

a few hours later i decided it was time for some birthday lunch. since we had to forgo pizza the night before, i cooked up our favorite homemade vegan pizza.



photo and recipe from ohsheglows.com http://ohsheglows.com/2010/10/17/project-food-blog-challenge-5-a-pizza-complex/  (notes: i usually make my own crust recipe, and i skip the olive oil+garlic spread on the dough, since the pesto you spread on the dough already contains both of those, also i usually add some red pepper to the roasted veggie mix)

fast forward a few more hours, i baked some birthday brownies, stirred up some hot fudge sauce and then threw together a birthday dinner of our favorite fajitas.



recipe and photo from 100daysofrealdfood.com
http://www.100daysofrealfood.com/2010/06/21/recipe-fajitas/
(notes: mmmm....)

then friends arrived, we chatted, sang happy birthday, and enjoyed the brownies topped with ice cream and hot fudge sauce. (kyle's favorite dessert)
the closer we get to leaving provo, the more we realize how much we'll miss it and our good friends here. thanks for the great night everyone!

(notes: i purposely avoided having my picture taken yesterday, because even though i felt a little better i was still pretty sick and looked it too)

the happy almost-engaged couple

kyle, andrew, sarah, zak

birthday boy!

jeffrey, allie, chels, david