Happy Birthday to Me!

For my birthday Nate sent some flowers to my office. I've never thought of myself as much of a 'flowers' girl but he got Gerbera daisy's which are my favorite - and they did brighten up my desk! Thanks Cute-Face.

Tokyo Pot

On June 4th Nate, his parents and I went to a restaurant called Tokyo Pot. It is a shabu-shabu style restaurant. It's also part owned by the guy who owns our favorite sushi restaurant, Sushi House. It was way fun! We were celebrating Nate's parent's anniversary and my birthday.

This is how it works. They give you a plate of veggies and a plate of very thinly-sliced meat. Then you have a pot (or pots in our case) of boiling water in front of you.

You put all the veggies in the water (they take a while to cook) and then you dip the meat in the boiling water to cook it (6-8 seconds).

You eat the meat as you go: cooking it, dipping it in sauce and eating it with rice.

After all the meat is cooked your veggies are done and you eat the 'broth soup' that's been created by cooking your meat. It was way yummy! And really fun.

We had originally heard about this style of cooking because Brad (Nate's dad) had had this when he was in Japan on business. It was well worth it and not as expensive as I had feared. I would love to go again!

Nate is OLD!

Yes it's true. My lovey turns 27 tomorrow and I am still a young & spry 25. If he had more money he's practically be a sugar daddy. To celebrate we're going out for sushi tonight at the Sushi House and to see Iron Man. I'm so excited!!!

That's a cute that never goes away...


And to help explain 'why Nate is the way he is' we have one of the top videos from the year he was born (it's a wonder we aren't all permanently scarred):