My birthday celebration(s)

April 17 is my birthday ...and I'm 29! I feel sooooo old! My b-day celebration actually started last April 15 because we visited my family in Mississauga. JR and I only bought some steaks & frites from Costco. We dropped it off at their place first since we're taking Jarrod to watch The Wild. I liked it better than Madagascar although they both have the same storyline. Jarrod really liked it a lot which is what we want. When we got home, my Tita Amy and Tito Danny cooked more food for me. My brother and his girlfriend actually bought an ice cream cake for me and my dad changed his work sched for me... I feel soooo special! LOL!

We slept over at their place and the next day we looked at our house again - last time before our closing date. Tito Kits was there to give us suggestions etc. for the house. So we were able to find out that it's really expensive to change the carpeted floors to laminates! This is why we're going to do the laminates next year! We decided that we'll paint the rooms and change the toilet bowls and sinks on the 2nd floor including the ensuite. So I'm planning to go to Canadian Tire or Home Depot to look for Benjamin Moore paint pallettes. I'm looking at magazines so I can look for ideas - JR's idea to save money on buying magazines is to get yung free New Condo and New Homes mags...hahaha! But there are a few ideas! I really like neutral and earth tone colours. So I might go with those and I can spice it up by choosing bolder colours on accessories & decorations. Exciting!

On Sunday night, we went with JR's family to VIP Sushi Restaurant for all-you-can eat. Yummy, lots of salmon sashimi for me! We had so much food! I love the sashimi and dragon rolls! Good thing is, it was free for us! But we brought my aunt and we had to pay for her! UGH! Oh well...too bad. But dinner was good.

On the 17th, I read e-mails and e-cards from friends and family. Answered phone calls and my friend from LA called to greet and chat with me. Too bad I had to work that day, trying to save my days for December! JR took me to Le Montmartre French Restaurant for dinner.
We've been here once before and the food and service was great! We had the restaurant all by ourselves! Enjoyed dinner
and we talked about the house and the wedding ..everything that we can chat about. Had a lovely time with my hubby!

I can't believe I had 3 birthday celebrations...hehehe! Lucky me!