Birthday of the Future

*Robot Uprising Influenced by Surprise Birthday Weekend*

That should have been the headline on the front page of the Sunday paper this week.  This weekend was just that Legendary.
My husband always has some kind of awesome birthday party plans but this year he found himself turning 25 ,finishing his thesis and with most of his friends moved away.  So he decided not to plan a party.
Then entered... this post by the Dating Divas! It gave me the most amazing idea...I should throw my husband a surprise party! but then I immediately dismissed it. I can't throw a party! The whole reason Rob doesn't want to have one is because he feels like no one will come. But then I had a wild idea! What if I could get his best friends to fly in and surprise him?! Then Rob could have a party AND he could celebrate it with his friends!
So I sent out the "Super Secret Mission" emails to 3 of his best friends that he use to live with.  And Praise the Lord they all agreed to arrive in Las Cruces two months later! The party was officially in motion!
The plan was for the guys to sweep in like the cavalry and save the day!  Leaving my husband with his batteries recharged so he could finish the fight and graduate with his masters.
I lost many a night of sleep this last two months dreaming that I had let the secret slip, but amazingly we successfully surprised Rob!
The guys dropped in this last Thursday night.  First one rang the doorbell and when Rob answered the door his jaw just about dropped and you can imagine his response as the 2nd and 3rd guy walk in the door about a minute apart.  Next thing Rob knew he was standing in his own kitchen surrounded by his best friends and he was pretty much speechless.
What followed was a pretty legendary weekend.
Luckily Rob knew I was up to something so having his friends show up on Thursday threw him off the scent that I was also throwing him a surprise futuristic/robot party!  He thought we were going to dinner at a friends house but much to his (Genuine) surprise he had a whole crew of people ready to party with him!
Below are the details of the Party! Please don't give me all the credit...I had a lot of help!

The guests were asked to wear some sort of futuristic accessory but if they forgot or didn't have any.  I made sure they were covered with glow necklaces, glow bracelets and futuristic sunglasses. 

 

We put metallic tables clothes and steamers up and we put robots everywhere!  Of course I made sure to put up the Robots that my husband thinks are awesome

Robot chicken with a Storm Trooper?

 Transformers!  I would have made them look like men but I didn't know how. lol

Zero from Mega man amongst a few other seriously sweet robots

We Love Star Wars!  Shout out to my parents for letting me borrow all your sweet collectibles!

 A little old and new school for all you Lost and Space fans out there

 

 

 

 

 I got this sweet transformers banner at Wal-Mart and it Lights up! Which was perfect because our entire party was under blue lights...very futuristic.

 

My husband isn't really into cake so every year I make him a GIANT peanut butter chocolate cookie.  Only this year my friend made him a the coolest fondant topping ever! 8 bit Mega Man!

These toothpicks from William Sonoma were pretty
much the perfect accessory to our chocolate Fountain

Here are some sweet action shots from the party!  We had some seriously sweet costumes there and the blue lights made for some cool pictures.  

Mission Success!!!

Top 5 Favorite Valentines Ideas

As I mentioned before in "Chimichangas Make My Top 5"  my husband and I have a thing for listing our top 5s of things.  Thus today's post is just a continuation of the obsession.


*Note*  My Top 5 are not necessarily in order.  I have the inability to pick my absolute fav of everything! Thus it is highly likely that in any Top 5, I like all five options equally as much : ) 

Top 5 Favorite Valentines Ideas

1. The Dating Divas have done it again and this blog of theirs is all about anticipation!  It is basically the 7 days of Valentines.













2. These fantastic Date Dice made by Say it on the Wall will help you make your date night plans not only for Valentines day but for the rest of the year too!

3. Cake Pops would make such a fun Valentines dessert!  Cake Pops and cake balls were thought up by the ingenious Bakerella and are delicious and so much fun! (Photo by Bakerella)









4. Make a luxurious meal and eat it by candle light with your Valentine!  Imagine candles everywhere! It's a classic and so very romantic (I took this pic when we lost power this last week!)

Via Flickr

5. List your Top 5's with your Valentine.  (Ok I  actually made this one up but i know from experience that this is a good one).  Even if you have been together for years I am sure that Listing your Top 5's with each other are sure to bring up a few surprises.
Ideas for your own Top 5:
~Top 5 favorite things about each other
~Top 5 favorite memories together
~Top 5 dreams for the future
~Top 5 worst and best 80's films
~Top 5 favorite love songs
~Top 5 music/movie/book picks when your were 16

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Unbirthday!

"Happy Rob day!"  I said to my husband.  I actually said this about 100 times yesterday.  I dedicated the day to my husband "just because".  Which in my family, a day dedicated to some one for no particular reason, would be referred to as your "UNbirthday".  My Dad has always been a great advocate of unbirthdays and he would throw them for me and my brother very randomly. It was always quite the surprise to come home from school to discover cake and presents waiting for me because it was my unbirthday.  Possibly my favorite part of an unbirthday is when my Dad takes on the persona of the mad hatter and sing the Unbirthday song from the Disney Cartoon "Alice in Wonderland".

If you are curious about unbirthdays allow me to have the master of unbirthdays explain it to you:

That movie was without a doubt my Fathers inspiration.  Much to my delight my Dad continues to throw unbirthdays even though I am an adult. He even gave my husband an unbirthday party before we were married! Unbirthdays are going to be a tradition in my family.  Its destiny. and in the spirit of that I created Rob Day.

My husband is on his last semester of grad school and it feels like he has a mountain of things to do, one of which being to finish his thesis...dun dun dunnnn! My goal is to keep him as happy, well fed and appreciated as possible so he can finish this last stretch.  So as of late i have been on the lookout for an unbirthday type opportunity.  Thankfully my friend Macey introduced me to the Dating Divas via her blog and now I have all of the husband spoiling ideas I ever wanted right at my fingertips! The Dating Divas are a blog that is "Saving Marriages One Date at a Time" which I am totally on board with.  And their post  These Are a Few of His Favorite Things was exactly what the doctor ordered!

So now I present to you...Rob Day!

The first surprise my husband discovered was the breakfast of champions! 

  

Along with some very valuable coupons for him to look forward to cashing in. You may ask about the second coupon but a Lady never kisses and tells.  

 

 I also snuck another note and one of Robbie's favorite treats into his back pack for him to find while he was out adventuring on campus. 

 

Later that afternoon I carefully placed one of his favorite beverages into the fridge with a label (which ensured that his brother doesn't come and drink it. lol) That cola by the way is no ordinary Coca Cola. oh no.  It is a Mexican Coca Cola meaning that it is made from cane sugar. Cane sugar = Yum!

 

For Dinner I made his favorite meal Chimichangas (which is another on of Lindas Recipes and I will post about that on Thursday) 

For dessert I baked some very delicious Nestle Tollhouse cookies that we had in the freezer.  To my husband there is nothing better for desert than a chocolate chip cookie.

Happy Unbirthday everybody!!