Birthday Recap

My birthday wasn't until after Labor Day, but the celebrations started that day.  I went out to Aodake with my parents & my brother & of course my kids, who are glued to me on my days off.  This is Ryu's favorite place to eat!  Kira was scared of the guy cooking, so my mom had to put her hand over her face, just so she could sit & eat her food :).  We love this place & it was great to spend time with my family.  Birthdays still mean a lot to me & I'm glad that my family is all here to celebrate with me!

After lunch, we all went to my house so I can open up my present from my mom, a brand new high tech sewing machine!!! It's the coolest thing ever, all these buttons to help make sewing so much easier.  I was able to make a duvet for Kira's bed & have loads more of other projects to tackle.  Weekends are going to be my craft days & boy do I have plenty to do!!!

Don, the kids & I were planning to get the most out of our season passes to Great America, & we were going to call the kids out of school to have a last family fun day.  After I had everything packed & ready to go, I was ready to go to bed & enjoy my YA book, when I just had this feeling to check the website to see what the hours where.  Thanks goodness I did bc the park was f*ing closed!!! Argh!  I was so excited to go & now what do we do???

Well we....Don, suggested we go bike riding on a bike trail near our house.  We just got a bike trailer for the kids & he was excited to try it out.  So we did.   I had fun surprisingly, I enjoyed watching my babies enjoy themselves.  Then we hit up, Steak & Shake, for happy hour, (1/2 priced milkshakes....YUM!!!).

Then, Don bought my birthday gift....YAY!!!

We went home for a bit to freshen up before dinner.  Don suggested that we try this all you can eat sushi buffet.  I was a little skeptical, but when he looked up the menu online, I couldn't resist!  I thought the sushi was laying out there, but it is actually made to order & you must finish what you order or you get charged extra.

It was so yummy!!! Not worth the price of what we ate, ( I should have skipped all meals that day to get the full benefit), but it was so good.  If I had more time I would have had another plate of what you see above!!!  One thing you should know about me, I love DUMPLINGS!!! Korean, Chinese, or Japanese dumplings, I love them all & I could've had like 6 orders of the dumplings & that would have been worth every single penny.  At least the option was there to get more, but we were just way too full!!!

I had a great birthday & I still need to post some pics from out bike ride.  Thank you mom & dad for the awesome sewing machine & Tita Luz, my brother for my early gift (courtesy of  Nordstrom anniversary sale) these awesome Sorel boots, & my husband for my Pandora charm & photography class!  Also to all my well wishers on FB!  Thanks!