Happy Monday Friends.  I am one year older as of yesterday and one year wiser, right??  Unfortunately the weather sucked ass this weekend.  I am talking pouring rain both Saturday and Sunday, it put a little damper on things but I still had a nice birthday weekend.  Sweet Sterling woke up on my birthday and said “Mom, I am sorry its raining on your birthday.  Lets just get cozy and eat cake.”  Sweetest thing ever!  Here is what went down.

Thursday night we made the taco casserole I blogged about Thursday.  We always make our own taco seasoning- how gorg is it?  Below is Matt’s plate of food.  I always joke and tell him he should be a food stylist his plates are always so pretty!

Friday I hit up DT to do a little shopping with Caycee.  Now that she has lost so much weight girl needed some new clothes.  I managed to find two beauties at F21.

Polka Dot Shirt Dress | Ombre Marled Sweater

Then she took me to lunch at Basil for my birthday.  I love me some Thai food, it was so good!

Saturday I met a girlfriend for some afternoon wine at Bin152 to celebrate both our birthdays.  I wore my new Forever 21 Polka Dot Shirt Dress.

While we were having wine one of our friends stopped by and told us Matt Lee was down the street signing cookbooks.  We promptly closed our tabs and headed off to stalk him.  I was so excited, it is sad how excited I get about meeting chefs.  Matt signed my cookbook and was super nice.  You can see how giddy I am in the picture:)

Now lets talk about birthday gifts.  Baublebar was sweet enough to send me a giftcard that I used for these gorgeous necklaces. 
Gold Essex Necklace |

 Lemon Snow Collar |  Chunky Pink Link Strands

Caycee surprised me with the Tkees flipflops I blogged about last week and ladies these are the best flipflops.  So comfortable and cute on.  I highly recommend them, I see myself living in them all Summer!  Tkees are my new jam.

My mint clutch from Gap came and it is even better in person.  

Sarah From Social Dress Shop sent me this Camilla and Marc Hot Pink Dress I had been eyeing forever!!  It is on major sale now, somebody else should snag one before they are gone!

 I got some gorgeous flowers.  Orchids and Tulips are my favorite!!

I was pretty lucky in the gift department and I haven’t even celebrated with my family yet!

Sunday I made myself my own birthday cupcakes.  It is times like that I wish my mom lived in town because she would have made them.  But Sterling and I had fun making them.  I wanted Strawberry, that is my favorite kind and I have a really great and easy Strawberry cupcake recipe!   Recipe coming, if anyone is interested in it!

The rain stopped long enough for us to hit up the Yacht Club a drink before dinner.  It was freezing there but I will say they pour the biggest glass of wine in town!

Matt cooked me a delicious Birthday Dinner.  Shrimp sandwiches with jalapeno coleslaw and spicy mayo.  They were off the hook good.  My man can really cook.

We were trying to recreate this sandwich on the new cover of Bon Appetit but with Shrimp instead of chicken.  Highly recommend.  I am happy to share our Shrimp Sandwich recipe too.

My birthday ended with lots of snuggles with this sweet guy.

  I want to thank everyone who messaged me on FB and instagram wishing
me a Happy Birthday.  It meant so much to me!  I had a really great
Birthday so thank you!  I am lucky to have so many wonderful people in my life.  33 is gonna be a good year, I just know it!
xoxo

First of all thank you so much for all the Birthday wishes on Friday. You all know how to make a girl feel very loved. My birthday was fabulous no doubt, best part was I got to spend it with my whole family (minus my brother but he is coming this weekend)! Do y’all ever feel like birthdays are like New Years Eve? So much build up and expectations and then you are always a little disappointed? I feel that way sometimes, but either way I had a great weekend!

My Tibi Cami arrived Friday just in time to wear it out that night. I so wanted to not like it but I actually loved it so I am keeping her.
Tibi Arizona Camisole

{Tibi Arizona Camisole, Seven “The Skinny” Jeans}
Friday night we went out to dinner at Jpaulz with my sister and her hubby! JPaulz is one of my favorite places to get sushi in town. Plus their truffled mac and cheese is out of this world good! We all started with some amazing lemon martinis!

We snapped one family photo predinner. My boys made my day very special.


My sweet parents who babysat so we could all go to dinner. Sterling loves his “DiDi and Big Poppie!”


Saturday we did some Birthday shopping. I ended up getting the green Jcrew skinny jeans. I originally wanted the Coral but of course they were all sold out in my size, but I am actually really digging the green ones.



My parents also gave me these two Lululemon pieces and I am obsessed with them! I can’t say enough good things about this workout gear. Do yourself a favor and go try some on you will be hooked.
Run Inspire Crop 2 and Debut Tank




I also got the black Tory Burch flip flops I had been wanting, love them! Can you tell I am a fan of everything black?

Saturday Morning my sister and I went to see the Hunger Games bright and early at the 9:45am showing- don’t judge me. And actually I was so not the oldest person there:)
Best part was they served mimosas at the movie. Overall I liked the movie, not as good as the book but that was expected. For the most part I liked all the casting choices but Peeta. He grew on me in the end but he just seemed a little dweeby. I loved Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, and Lenny Kravitz. I give the movie a B+ def worth seeing if you read the book.


Saturday night we had big plans to hit up the rooftop bar but it poured down rain. So we ended up just having cocktails at our house. We made the lychee martinis and they were amazing. Will most definitely become a regular cocktail for me. All I did was mix vodka with a few splashes of the syrup from the can and added a Lychee in each martini. I found no need for simple syrup as the syrup from the lychees was sweet enough to flavor the drink. Don’t be alarmed that the lychees kind of look like testicles. This weirded me out in the beginning but I quickly got past it.


My outfit Saturday night, Tibi Dress.

Also rocked my birthstone ring my parents gave me a few years ago for my birthday. One of my favorite gifts ever. So special.


It was such a fun weekend! Now it’s back to reality! Here is to 32 being an amazing year!