Birthday Date

Holy cow, I need to come to the blog for suggestions more often!!! Maybe one of these days, I’ll have to put a poll in where you guys plan our next date for us. We had so much fun! We dropped Ezekiel off at Dave’s sister’s house around 11, and they were so excited to see us. Our niece H had picked out all of the toys that she knew Eze would love in her room, and even found some baby books to read to him. She had pulled out her doll house, because she knew Eze would love playing with it. And how right she was. Although Eze likes playing with it by seeing how much stuff he can fit inside it, and kept driving the large car H had through each room of the house.

We sat and watched the kiddos play for a little while and chatted with M and B, and then gave Eze kisses and headed on out. I decided I was the most hungry for Philippine food, but since there isn’t a Philippine restaurant in the area anymore, I decided Thai food was my next best bet (sorry Nate, we’ll do your restaurant next time you guys are in town!! And Andy and Tyler, we want to go with you guys to some of those awesome restaurants you recommended when you are home). We drove on over to St Paul to the area where we used to live (the Summit Avenue area, for those of you who know the area – we miss living there!), and drove up and down Grand Ave for a while looking for the Thai place I wanted to go to that Amanda had recommended. I thought I knew right where it was, but couldn’t find it. Turns out it was on Selby, oops. We decided to hit up Brasa instead (Todd’s recommendation), and we are SO glad that we did. The atmosphere there was super laidback, and we sat outside in the beautiful sunshine while enoying our food and sweet tea. The restaurant has garage doors that open to the outside, so it was all light and airy, but we decided to sit outside so that I could work on my tan Brasa uses mainly organic and local food, so we were excited to support a restaurant like that. My goodness the food was absolutely amazing. I would recommend it to anyone looking for some good southern/down home cooking.

We decided to park over by our old house and walk over to the Grand Ole Creamery to try and walk off some of our lunch so that we’d have room for their delectable ice cream. We walked around people-watching while we ate our ice cream snacks, and stopped to leave a note for a friend who works on Grand at a hair salon but wasn’t working today. We then decided to head on down to the Mall of America to try and catch a movie. However, when we got there I wasn’t super excited to see any of the movies that were there. We decided to head to IKEA instead and try to find some inexpensive ways to finish decorating our house (5 years after we moved in!).

We ended up finding some great colors for bedsheets to finish decorating our bedroom, as well as some unfinished picture frames that we’re going to paint the vibrant colors of our living room/bedrooms that we’ll fill with black and white photos. I’ll put up some before and after pictures of the bedroom to post tomorrow. I have no clue when we’ll finish with the living room, but I’ll get pics up whenever we decide to finally get our patooties in gear I’ll also post what I did on my actual birthday later this week. Thanks again for helping us plan a super fun day, I had a GREAT birthday weekend!!!