The BIG THREE-O!

I decided to hi jack the blog for this post since Justin has been the only author. This post just had to be from me. -Camille On August 28th Justin entered a new decade! That's right, he is now 30 years old!!! I wanted this year to be special. Unique. One to remember. I can't tell you how many Big ideas and activities I came up with for this guy. But in the end, his birthday wish was to SLEEP!. Yes, we are parents of 4 young, very active boys. Sleep is never something we get enough of. This is what we ended up doing for his birthday. Justin's parents came for a week (They are wonderful guests! So helpful and fun) Justin's meals of choice were- Breakfast: french toast and bacon, Lunch: a work buddy took him out, and for dinner he requested homemade Cafe Rio salad. YUM! Throughout the day Justin called telling me how touched he was with all the texts and e-mails from so many people. Words of affirmation is a BIG DEAL to him. To have so many people remember and send messages of love and happy birthday meant so much to him! You should have seen him at the end of the day. He was on Cloud 9!! Presents were a success! WHEW! We printed his blog (this blog) into 2 books! I am so grateful Justin has taken the time to keep this precious family record over the past 4 years. His parents got him a GUITAR! He has wanted one for as long as I can remember. It has been so fun to hear him practice, and the kids all grab some kind of instrument and jam out with him. We sang happy birthday, had him blow out a few less than 30 candles and called it good. TIL THURSDAY.

Thursday He got home at about 3pm and he and I took off. THAT'S RIGHT! Grandma and Grandad watched ALL FOUR BOYS, (that is quite a job! They are SUPERSTARS! ) so we could have a little get-a-way. We headed down to Pacific Beach for the next 24+ hours. We stopped at buffalo ex-change, Because we could! (no kids = stress free shopping) Justin got some Sweet shoes! Then off to the hotel. This Hotel was AMAZING! (and we vowed then and there that we would return) AS you can see in the pictures Justin is sprawled out on the floor.... the BATHROOM floor! There was a Jacuzzi in the bathroom. The room was massive as was the balcony overlooking the beach. We then went to dinner.

Thai anyone? For Dinner we found this great Thai place, Narraya, near the hotel. They had us remove our shoes and sit traditional Thai style, on the floor. Justin was not to sure about the idea, and after watching him try to get in a comfortable position I understand why. :) Then I let him in on the secret, there was a hole under the table so you could sit as if you were in a chair. We had a good laugh about that! Because we were right on the floor our waitress, who was dressed in her traditional gold and red attire, had to kneel down to wait on us. We pretty much felt like royalty. We returned to the hotel for a relaxing evening, watched the republican convention and went to bed at 9PM!! And slept in til 7am. 10 whole hours! Amazing!! In the morning we enjoyed the beach. Just relaxing to the sound of waves. LOVELY! Hope you had as much fun as I did birthday boy! LOVE YOU!- Camille