Fake Birthday Fun

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The husband and I had been planning today as a pre-birthday-day-o-fun for a while now, planning to frolic about in Seattle, go to REI, have lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, and finish out the afternoon getting our game on at Gameworks.  We're gamers at heart.  Everyone knows this about us. 

Emma's delightful aunties had agreed to watch her while we ventured out, and we planned out our whole day which would of course culminate in a brief pre-birthday-parade along the streets of Everett (not terribly dissimilar to the Dean Martin Parade in Steubenville).

Sadly, the sweet tiny human we're responsible for had been extra sneezy yesterday and woke up today with a stuffy nose and what we quickly identified as a head cold. 

Not ones to be deterred, the aunties offered to watch the teeny one while we had an abbreviated pre-birthday-day-o-fun.  The aunties are so good to us!

Even when baby isn't with us, monkey mirror always is..

A picture Auntie Brenda sent to us after sweet tiny woke up from her nap.  

Since we couldn't go to the Cheesecake Factory we decided to settle for the Spaghetti Factory.  So similar.  We love industrial restaurants.  And fancy pesto salads.  

"It feels a little like Disney Land here..." -Joshua Ferguson.  It's true.  It was a uniquely sunny September day and there was a trolley.  I pretended (on a dare from the man previously quoted) to be a Disney princess by relaxing on this couch. 

Until the employees walked back by, refused to serve me spumoni in the waiting area, and we quickly gathered our things and left. 

I'm not usually one to turn down a dare.

Aside from the dare, my husband also presented to me a brand new jacket from REI!  I am quite excited to sport this soon.  And baby is excited to be held while I sport it. 
Whenever it's sunny out we feel like we're on a road trip, so today we went with that feeling by treating ourselves to a little $.99 Caddy Shack Lemon Iced Tea at the AmPm! Take that Gameworks. And Disney Land.

Happy Fake Birthday to me!

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