Kim's Birthday

Aaron is a wonderful husband. I know, right, like there is any question about it. :)

He made my birthday fantastic.

On Saturday night, he surprised me with a dinner party. We had planned to go out to dinner at Viva Madrid with our friends Nick and Alicia. But then while we were getting ready to leave, Lori and Ryan showed up with grocery bags full of food. Aaron had looked up recipes for Tapas and shopped on Thursday, then stashed all of the goods at Ryan's apartment.

So, instead of going out and waiting 1-2 hours to be seated at a restaurant and then having to pay lots of money and deal with all of the other restaurant snags, I got to relax in my living room, watching Scrubs season 6 with my girlfriends while our men were in the kitchen preparing awesome food for us. It was amazing. I was completely surprised, and we had a lot of fun.

My actual present was tickets to see Ben Harper in San Diego. And we got to stay down there in a hotel that was right on the beach (so cool!).

We got a late start getting down there, so we opted for dinner after the show. The concert was amazing, I had been wanting to see them live for a while.

After our very late dinner, we were driving around the downtown area on our way back to our hotel, and we noticed people hanging out by the theatre where the loading dock was, along with tour buses! We worked our way back over and parked and decided to be adventurous and wait to see if we might be able to get pictures with guys from the band. And we did! It was so cool, these guys were so nice. Well, except for Ben Harper, ironically, he was the least nice. Whatever, he's still a good musician.

So that was exciting, and we got to sleep in today and then enjoyed a great view of the beach. After checkout, we ventured out in search of a unique place for breakfast and ended up at The Mission. And the food was great! Then we worked our way over to Ikea to make a return and, of course, wander around. I know it's weird, but I love Ikea. And we picked up a few items we had both been wanting for a while, plus I got some inspiration for decorating our apartment for Christmas.

Then we had a long drive home because we hit some traffic, but all in all, it was a great birthday. I am very thankful.

If you want to see more pics, check out the slideshow.