Birthday Pie

My birthday was great! Sat night, Cole took me here which was delish.
The next day, Sunday, which was my actual birthday, we had a great adventure! A few days prior, I stumbled upon a berry tree behind our complex. I thought they were blackberries, but it turns out they are Mulberries. (I think). If I am wrong, I have poisoned my whole family, plus the McClellan family. oops. I feel fine, so I am assuming they were legit.

I'll let the pictures do the talking.







yum.

May I just say, I did not have any wax paper (I used 2 gallon sized zip loc bags), a rolling pin (I used the Pam spray can), shortening (I used olive oil), nor a pie tin (I used a tin from our Bahama Breeze leftovers....tacky, I know, but it worked!)...and after all that the pie still turned out!

And let me not fail to mention Cole's bday gift to me, a gift card to Nordy's which I already spent all of...the very next day.

DUN DUN DUN

I have a really funny story. Last week I was leaving work with Cole and his buddy and I realized I left my phone in the restroom. I went back to get it and it was no where in sight. After looking everywhere and deciding that it was definitely left in the restroom, I came to the conclusion that it was taken. I was so so so upset. That phone was not cheap. Also, it had all my info in it. So after going home, I remembered hearing about this service that Sprint offers that allows you to see on a map exactly where your phone is. It was meant for parents trying to keep track of their kids, but I decided to use it to find my phone. Well, I called up Sprint and set it up, and to make a long story short, found where my phone was. I was able to see exactly where it was located, within a 9 foot radius. It was about a mile or two away from my work. The phone was in the car in a parking lot outside an outlet store. I sent Cole and his friend, Jared to go hunt it down. I know what you are thinking. What are they going to say when they confront the person? I didn't know what to expect either....all I know is that I wanted my phone back! Well, I'll save you all the boring details, but in a nut shell, They found the car they thought the phone was in, and waited for the person to come out of the store. They called the police and explained everything to the officer that showed up. When the car owner came out (it was 3 older black women), the officer waited for them to pull out and drive away and then pulled them over. (I'm guessing for legal reasons). He said something like" I am pulling you over because you failed to heed the street sign, but really, I'm pulling you over because I know you have a stolen phone in here" lol I thought that was hilarious. So they gave it up, gave it to Cole, and therefore, I got my phone back! YAY!!!

And ya know what? This story seems lame compared to actually going through all of this. I felt like CSI behind the scenes or something. haha. It was great. Thank you technology!

3 year Anniversary

Well, our anniversary was great! We woke up and Cole made homemade chocolate chip pancakes ( he does that like 2-3 times a week! I know, I am spoiled)and after spending the morning together as a family, we dropped Dally off at my moms and headed to the Dallas World Aquarium. Now as most of you know, my biggest fear is fish. I know, it's a strange phobia, but it is what it is. I am petrified around fish....they just freak me out.

So you may be asking what possessed me to go to an aquarium? Well, I'll tell you.

When I was in Elementary school, we went on a field trip to the same DWA. I enjoyed it all except toward the end. We went through a large tunnel where all sorts of sharks were swimming all around you. I was already intimidated being surrounded by sharks, but was topped it all was when I looked straight into the 4 inch glass, and looking right at me facing me up close was a huge hammerhead shark. I was so terrified that I screamed and ran out of the tunnel. This is where my fear of fish started.

I told Cole that I wanted to go to this very spot because I wanted to once and for all get over this ridiculous fear. Well, at the very first sight of fish, I immediately went into freak out mode and wanted to turn around and go home. But I persuaded myself to continue and stick it through. It wasn't so bad, minus a few scary parts. I noticed that the smaller and more colorful the fish, the less scary they were to me...which is an improvement. And then the thriller...THE TUNNEL OF DOOM! I wasn't expecting it to creep up on me like it did. I was walking, and then I just looked up, and there he was....the hammerhead himself. (Not the same one, of course, but scary, just the same). I immediately turned around and RAN past the other tourists, who were looking at me funny, toward Cole, grabbed him and started crying. Dramatic, I know. But you just don't get it. This was a traumatic experience in my youth which caused me to DESPISE fish of all kinds, and be terrified of them, and I was facing it after all these years. So holding my hand, Cole and I walked slowly into the tunnel. I found myself able to look at the Sword sharks, the Great Whites, and all others....except the Hammerheads. Those, I could not bring myself to look at. Finally, I walked all the way through without causing a scene, my too patient and loving husband with me the whole way. The rest of the exhibit was all downhill from there. We saw hummingbirds just inches from our face, a jaguar, monkeys, penguins, piranhas, and all sorts of awesome creatures. It was exhilarating, exhausting, and terrifying all at the same time.

Afterwards, we went here for lunch,

here for dessert,

and went home and watched this with a few friends.

Which I will probably never see again. It was kind of stupid. And that means alot coming from a musical junkie.

Overall, it was a great day. :)

Oh and I almost forgot. I got this for Cole's anniversary/birthday gift. We are obsessed with it.