Alex is 26

Well Alex turned 26 yesterday.. on the 26th :)

I took lunch over to him at his office which is always a nice way to break up the day. After work i hit the grocery store for some things, including some of his favorites.. greek olives and sharp cheddar cheese. And i bought invitations for our housewarming party. We've had little to no groceries in our house for the past couple weeks because of all the time we've been spending at Martin.. kind of hard to plan lunch this way actually, so i've been struggling with that. i'm sorry that i want to eat puffy's cheese curls for lunch everyday. but they are made with real cheese so...

anyway. after i got home Alex wanted to hit up the jockey outlet for some new boxer briefs.. he hasn't really gotten new ones since losing so much weight after college and baggy boxer briefs are just like boxers.. which we both do not enjoy. TMI? oops. After jockey we walked through the expensiveness of restoration hardware and then went over to Bass. I swear, they always have 50% + 20% off and this is Alex's favorite store.. so he always gets a huge deal. He got 6 shirts for under $120... yeah, for real. and they're good quality aka lasts a long time. guys have it so easy.

by this point we were hungry and Alex chose John J. Jeffries for dinner because we had never been and it's all local/organic delicious so why not? i think originally we thought it would be too expensive but i got a 10 dollar grass fed beef burger with 2 patties no less.. so no, that's not expensive. they have small plates though that can add up. This was the perfect place for Alex though.. he had the surf & turf which was basically super rare beef and rare scallops (i'm sure it was all cured in something to 'cook' it), then he had liver and onions.. followed by pork belly on french toast, which he said tasted like an awesome breakfast. And i did get to try just the pork belly and it tasted like well cooked bacon with syrup on it. I got the burger as I said about but started with a Curried Risotto with shrimp and asparagus.. hello delicious. This was filling enough and i could only eat a couple bites of the burger and some of the shoestring fries. Of course I had dessert after.. cheesecake and Alex ate the rhubarb sauce that accompanied it. such a great birthday meal!

at home he got to watch whatever he wanted (which isn't normal) and i filled out some of our party invitations. i think he had a nice birthday.. it really stretched through the weekend and i enjoy celebrating so it was fun!

tonight i'm going to paint the ceiling in the family room and Alex is going to install the light kits for the ceiling fans upstairs. we also need to get the ceiling fans for the living room and master bedroom and also some duvet sets for the guest room so that things at least sort of match the walls or coordinate well. i can't wait to move innnnnnn. :) hoping this week blows by again, i already know the weekend will.. while being filled with fun. And then Sunday we can start moving stuff for reals!