My pre-birthday weekend

My 24th birthday is tomorrow so Erik and I decided to celebrate this weekend (actually I might still be getting a tasty homemade dinner and cake tomorrow). Lets just say, its a weekend I will never forget ;)

It actually snowed for about 30 minutes, and rained the rest of the weekend

First up: I absolutely love decorating for Christmas. It has now become tradition to do this on my birthday weekend. I got down my boxes and went to work, mostly in the living room and dining area. After I got everything up, all I had left were ornaments and lights!


Next stop: a tree farm! There is nothing I love more than going out into the wilderness, hiking through two feet of snow and finding the perfect christmas tree to cut down and pack out. Unfortunately that is really hard to do around Portland so I settled for a scenic drive to a tree farm. By the time we got there is was POURING rain and instead of going for a hay ride to pick out a tree to cut down, we opted for one of the pre-cut trees. We were soaking wet and cold by the time we packed it in the car (Thank God for fold-down seats), but it was well worth it.


Finally: I decorated the tree while Erik played Xbox, which is fine because I am picky about it anyway.

No Dad, its not too close to the heater I do love the sparkly purple pineconeand jolly St. Nick!

We had dinner reservations at the Chart House which turned out to be very nice (can you say "valet"?) and had a beautiful view. The food was out of this world (lobster bisque, crab stuffed mushrooms, macadamia crusted mahi-mahi, and melt-in-your-mouth filet mingon with mashed potatoes). It was a fun and very filling experience.

No pics from dinner, but here's my dress (complete with tags)

Lets see....what else happened this weekend....

oh yeah!

the pictures don't do it justice, its actually very sparkly

Of course I said yes! He even got down on one knee

Miss Pup approves