Sarah's 30th!

So, yep, it's true, I am the big three - zero and well, I had a great time celebrating!

As usual I managed to stretch my birthday out to last a few weeks so that is always a personal triumph! :)

My festivities began two days before my birthday with a little family dinner of fried wontons and vegetarian spring rolls with peanut sauce and ginger sauce (all homemade my by lovely husband of course!)  It was so so so so so so good! Seriously, if you've never had this, you need to ask us to make it for you, it's simply the best!

However, said dinner does take a TON of prep work, so Bennett and I sat a plucked cilantro for quite some time, it was pretty sweet that he wanted to help!

After dinner, my birthday dessert was White Lime! Here's most of the fam enjoying dessert! (my dad was at work)

Then for my birthday present from my husband, we went up to San Luis Obispo for 3 days (2 nights)! We stayed at our most favorite place, the Apple Farm Inn. (Which by the way, we had won a free night in a facebook contest so we only had to pay for one night - Awesome!!!!)

So we dropped Bennett off at church with his Grandma and we were off!

Basically, as with all vacations, we pretty much planned our trip around where we wanted to eat! We've been on vacation a number of times to the Pismo/SLO area and so we knew exactly where we wanted to go!  We drove straight from the LE to the Village in Arroyo Grande for a yummy birthday lunch at Alphy's Broiler! 

According to Adam (my dad and brother too) these are the best fish tacos on the planet! 

After a walk around town and an ice cream cone of wonder at Doc Burnstein's (where I accidentally tipped the girl $5 instead of $1) we made our way up to the Apple Farm Inn. 

When we walked in the room, I was instantly reminded of why I love this place to much! 

The card wished me a happy birthday and there were two certificates for two free cookies (that's 4 yummy cookies)! 

As usual, our room was adorable and Adam made himself right at home! 

After a little time to relax and get changed we made our way to my special fancy birthday dinner at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. 

We love the Madonna Inn, we stayed there on our honeymoon for one night and had quite the adventure, snakes and all! 

I know it's dorky, but I was totally exited about where we got to sit for dinner! It's one of three covered booths that I have always wanted to sit at, Happy Birthday to me! 

the view of the restaurant from our booth - it's craziness I tell you! 

We of course had a phenomenal dinner filled with filet mignon and prime rib followed by a super yummy slice of birthday cake (aka their pink champagne cake)

After walking around and looking through all the shops Adam took a 30th birthday picture of me by the front door with my baby belly (I was only 15 1/2 weeks most of what is showing in this picture is my tummy full of dinner and cake!) 

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) Adam and I don't eat much red meat anymore and well, we ended up rather sick to our stomaches for the rest of the night, Opps! So we got hot apple cider from the lobby, went and sat in the hot tub and then watched TV until our tummies felt good enough to fall asleep ... I know, we are soooo romantical! :)  

The next day we slept in nice a late, like people who don't have kids late, and then went into Pismo for an early lunch. Adam had BBQ and I had clam chowder and we both shared garlic fries! Yummy! 

We spent the rest of our afternoon walking around the town and admiring the beach and just talking, it was very lovely. 

Upon returning to the Apple Farm, Adam took a nap and I went and got a massage (my birthday present from my Mother-in-law). That night we just kind of looked around downtown SLO until we found a place that looked cute. We found this...

There was no one there when we got there, but that didn't deter us, and I'm so glad it didn't because it was absolutely lovely! We sat at the table in the left hand window of the restaurant and people watched and talked and ate slowly and enjoyed every bite! We ended the night with a long walk through downtown and, as always, ended up spending a great deal of time in Barnes & Noble - somethings never change :)  The next day, after breakfast at the hotel, we headed out on our drive home. 

One would think that that was the end of my birthday fun ... ha ha! Not so! My awesome husband said, "Well, I had a Man-Night for my 30th, do you want a girls night?" To which I replied, "Can it be a slumber party?!" And well, off the last minute plans ran from there! 

It was by no means an elaborate party, really not much prep work was done at all. But the afternoon of I decided I needed some decorations and instead of going out to spend money I looked around for stuff we already had ... fabric banners from my sons first birthday party? Why of course, that would be perfect! 

With banners hung and Adam and Bennett off to Grandma's for a sleepover, a few lovely ladies brought snacks to share and we had a great evening of talking and laughing and reminiscing! 

Luckily I had a moment of clarity and just before the first person not spending the night left, I remembered to take a group picture of everyone who came! 

It was so fun and I'm so blessed to have such sweet ladies in my life (not that these are all the sweet ladies I know, these are just the one's who happened to be free and/or who I remembered to invite!)

So, yeah, that's about it. I'm pretty sure I partied it up for my 30th and I loved the whole two weeks that it lasted for! Hopefully I can have another sleep over when I turn 40! 

Cabo (Day 4)

So like I may have mentioned in my previous post, our bridesmaid dresses, our custom made $250 bridesmaid dresses, were not exactly our favorite things and by the end of the wedding we all had red marks or aches and pains from the way they fit ... not the best way to spend 10 hours! (side note, no one in the wedding party is to blame for these dresses! But the dress maker will remain nameless because that would just be unkind!)

I can't remember when the conversation started, maybe during the appetizer portion of the evening, but at some point we had all commented on how we needed to have a "trash the dress" session, not with Brittany's fabulous wedding dress of course, but with our bridesmaid dresses! After looking at the ocean and seeing all the red flags and warning signs about going in the water we quickly changed our sights from the ocean to the pool at the hotel. So we told the photographers during the reception what we wanted to do and they said they would meet us at the pool at 9 the next morning.

Oh and I can I just add how rad my cousin is! She showed up to watch us and thought the whole thing was great! Way to be an awesome bride!

Notice how I look SUPER pregnant when I am only 13 weeks!

So, we made our way over to the infinity pool and had ourselves a great time!

from the photographer's facebook page

Please note that our dresses floated behind us! So random but hilarious! 

After our morning of fun, we all went back to our rooms to change and make our way to the farewell brunch for more fabulous food and views over looking the ocean!

It was so hot that day! I have no clue how they could have even posed for this picture! 

 After brunch and a quick packing of the bags we made our way down to the lobby and lucky for us we ran into the newly weds and were able to snag a quick picture!

We just may have sat in the Cabo airport for WAY too long due to flight delays and then had the worst experience EVER with US customs once back to LAX, but that's not really very blog worthy.

This was such a fun trip! I had no clue what to expect going into it and well, it was pretty much so fabulous that I'm kind of hoping Brittany decides to have a destination baby shower when the time comes! :)  VIVA MEXICO!

Cabo (day 3)

Day 3 is of course the day we all made this trip for ... WEDDING DAY!!!!

We started early, "Meet at 9:30 in the lobby, no need to shower just bring all your stuff" Brittany said the night before. I was thinking, "No need to shower?! What?!"  But I trusted the girl and it worked out great because I got to sleep an extra hour and had more than enough time to get ready! It may have helped that we got ready in like the nicest "locker room" I've ever seen in my life!

Our lovely dresses all hung up and waiting to torture us ... more on these beauties in day 4...

Brittany thought of everything! 

Probably b/c she was in my wedding where I totally forgot about feeding my girls lunch!

So once we were all ready, it was time to get Brittany dressed and start on her 500 buttons!

 Needless to say, she looked stunning!

We went out and took pictures with the photographers and had a great time despite all the wind! And then of course it was time to head to the mission! 

Again ... she thought of everything! 

What a lovely veil  :)

my mom did one of the readings :)

Yes, the priest really was that cute! 

(courtesy of the photographer's facebook page)

Brittany's side of the fam ... please note my Uncle's awesome jacket! Amazing! 

 From the church we went straight to cocktails and appetizers on the golf course (which just so happened to be right on the beach as well). 

We had some time to kill while there so we had a good time taking pictures and playing in our "fairy bridesmaid dresses"!

(Now that I think of it, this may have been when the "trash the dress" conversations started ... but like I said, more to come on the bridesmaid dresses in day 4)

My little brothers... 

bridal party heading up to the reception

And as could be expected by this point ... the reception was AMAZING too! Looked like it was out of a wedding magazine! 

Kristin and Brittany with their new last names! :)

 Just take a minute and read this menu ... it was unreal!

(please note that there were THREE desserts!)

At this time I would like to one again apologize to my husband for not bringing him one of the cigars this woman was rolling during the reception. Seriously, one minute she was there, the next she was gone!

Once the "real" dance party got started, Brittany made a quick exit and came back with her party dress on!

(actually, it's the same dress, she just had it altered so that the bottom part could come off for dancing! It was so cute and fun! )

After dancing til midnight and then a quick trip back to the locker rooms to make sure we got everything I surprisingly made it back to my hotel room by 12:30 ... you know, it was just a 15 hour day! But no complaining here because it was a fabulous 15 hour day! 

Congratulations once again to Brittany and Javier! 

What a wonderful day to celebrate your love!