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Tamra's Birthday: Part V

...well, all good things must come to end, and that includes my birthday celebration. Michael and I ended the festivities this year with an amazing dinner at III Forks. This was actually a joint birthday celebration because Michael's birthday was November 6th. He asked me not to make a big deal out of his birthday this year, so (as hard as it was), we kept it pretty low key.

Happy Birthday baby! I love you!

Birthday cheeescake for 2!

Tamra's Birthday: Part IV

A few days after my birthday, me and some of my best girlfriends met up for dinner at P.F. Changs to continue the birthday celebration! This is a tradition of ours (not always at P.F. Changes) that we've been doing for years now! Thank you ladies for coming out! I had a wonderful time!

Red velvet cake shot

Shawna, Kelli, Lacey, K.C., Tamra & Courtney

Tamra's Birthday: Part III

Go Dallas Stars! Michael was given some tickets to the Stars game right around my birthday, so I'm going to pretend that this was part of the festivities for me! We arrived in time to grab some dinner before heading to our amazing seats right on the glass! I'm talking first row! It was so exciting every time the players would crash into the wall right in front of us or a puck would hit the wall and scare us all.

Unfortunately, not all of the audience members were as lucky as us. One gentleman got hit in the face and he didn't see the puck coming. He was knocked out cold and has a nice little reminder on his check bone. We figure he walked away with some sort of autographed souvenir and probably free tickets to another game! It was a high scoring game, but the Stars couldn't pull off the win following over-time and a shoot out.

Stars fans!

Before the game

Some action shots...

...the other team flying by...

I just thought this was cool shot

Our Dallas Stars!

Final score

Tamra's Birthday: Part II

On the day of my actual birthday (October 29th), I took the day off from work. This was a wonderful gift to myself! I slept in, made a trip to the spa (manicure, pedicure and facial), ran to the grocery store, made a lasagna for us and a friend that recently had a baby and rented a movie to watch later that night. It may not sound like much, but it was the perfect day for me.

I forgot about the best part...when I went up to the front to pay for the spa treatments, the bill had already been taken care! Michael had called ahead and taken care of everything! He really is the best husband I could have ever asked for. After Michael and I had dinner and watched "The Proposal", I went downstairs to get ready for bed and found some presents: red velvet cupcakes from The Cupcakery (my fav!), a scarf and a pair of sunglasses (not pictured). Thank you honey!

Presents!

Tamra's Birthday: Part I

Happy Birthday to me! My friend Katie organized a little pre-birthday bash (aka: dinner) the night before my birthday. A few of us (neighbors and friends) got together for dinner and drinks at BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse. The food was delicious (I had one of the pizzas) and the pizookie was even better! Thank you all for coming out and helping kick-off the birthday celebration!

Birthday Pizookie!

Make a wish!

Michel Ann, Lara, Kylie, Katie, Tamra & Michelle

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! (What? I'm only a week behind!) We had a great Halloween this year and I loved that it was on a Saturday! We started the early evening passing out candy to the all of the trick-or-treaters and then changed into our costumes and headed over to Michelle's 2nd annual Halloween cosutme party! The best part...Michelle is a neighbor so we just walked on over!

Michelle loves Halloween, and when she hosts a party, she goes all out and I mean ALL out. The pictures below of the food, drinks and decor do not do this party justice. I only captured a few of the special touches that Michelle laborlessly worked on during the week. Thank you Michelle for having us and we look forward to next year!

Gangster Michael & Flapper Tamra

A shot from the knees up so you can really get a look at that zoot suit!

Drink table

Wall decor

One of the food tables

This guy has been there a long time...

Eyeball rice crispy treats

Yummy candies

Ghoulish cupcakes!

Brooks & Katie

Katie, Tamra & Sara

Tamra, Katie, Julie, Michelle, Kylie & Lara

Look! Obama even made it! (It's really Ian)

Hostess with the mostess & Tamra

Tamra, Katie, Amanda, Michelle & Lara

Woof Woof Lexi (That's Happy Birthday in Puppy Talk)

Michael and I recently went down to Austin for our niece's 2nd birthday! Lexi is crazy about puppies right now, so it made perfect sense for her birthday to be a dog/puppy theme! Her neighbors recently got a puppy, so maybe that's where her new found passion for dogs is coming from because she lives in a cat household. Ha!

The whole family pitched in and helped get things ready for the party, but Lexi's parents (Chris & Amy) deserve some major applause for all of their hard work and creativity...especially with the doggie cake. They made it themselves! Oh, and I must mention...Amy is 8 months pregnant too! Happy Birthday Lexi and we LOVE you!!