6/19/11 PARTAY

Along with being Father day, Ben also turned 27 this last Sunday. I thought it would be funny to play a trick on him and write "Surprise! Happy Father's Day too!" in his Birthday card haha, but I didn't. We celebrated a little on Saturday and a little on Sunday. On Saturday we went to the Cheesecake Factory which is so good and then went to the Strawberry Days Rodeo with some friends afterwards. Sunday I gave him a 5 year old party at our apartment with just us two...it was pirate themed hahaha. Why not. After that we headed to the canyon for a picnic. We kept it simple with hot dogs and chips, but then for dessert we tried "oreo s'mores" which is chocolate graham crackers with cookies n cream chocolate bars and a marshmallow. Pretty good actually. Here's some pictures!

That says 27 haha

Ahh Nature ;)

I no longer work night shifts on the weekend!!! HALLELUJAH! So...yesterday when I got off at 3 we had to go out and enjoy the weather. Ben and I hiked up to Stewart falls and it was pretty sweet. It was weird being in 80 degree weather and then reaching the top and seeing snow! Pretty cool.

He did it again...

Ben always shows me a grand ol' time on my Birthday. I loved my presents and he always impresses me with how creative he is. I started off the day with school but then had the rest of the day off from work which was great. I did a little shopping and then came home to Ben video taping me and singing happy Birthday with my birthday shrine on the kitchen counter. Cute.
Along with getting me razzleberry pie (my favorite) and flowers, he made me the coolest shirt by airbrushing on a white t-shirt! It turned out sooo good. I was extremely impressed and totally thought he had bought it from a store. I've also been wanting to make my own lamp and chandelier for a long time (kindof random) but had no idea how to do it. Well....Ben of course did some research and bought all this stuff for me to do it, and then wrote down a bunch of websites where you can buy some other things like the crystals. What a good present! He always gets something I would never think of, but really want.
After presents I got ready and we drove to salt lake where I did a little more shopping with the gift card my parents sent and then we headed for what I thought was a restaurant called Blue Lemon. Ben had said it was pretty nice and not expensive. Sounded good to me! Well as we turned a corner he said "actually why don't we just go to Flemming's?" We were right in front of it and it's the BEST steak restaurant I've ever been to. It was a grrrreat surprise and I ate like a Queen...actually I'd say a King. I'm an eater. They also gave me a free dessert which was a chocolate lava cake with vanilla icecream and it was to die for. I was so stuffed and so happy when we left.
Here's a few pics from my big 24!

Memorial Day festivities

Some of us Poole's got together for a memorial day BBQ on Monday and I of course annoyed people with picture taking :)
Jeff, Courtney and little Brock moved to South Carolina today so I had to take some pictures! I will miss them a lot :)
It was also quite a treat to have my father in law Mitch here for a few days...He is just the nicest and cracks me up.