Anyway, my mom didn’t want anything fancy done for her birthday, and I think she was happy that we all celebrated with her.  Me and my mom are pretty close so I was happy that she was happy.  :)  I love you mom! <3

We also celebrated Lex’s birthday too…since when we got him he was 2 months (January ‘05) he would have been born around November ‘04… he’s such a good boy! I wish I took pics of him and Logan eating turkey legs!

But first, a picture of my dog Logan and Lex. My boys.

Here is a live webcam of Shiba Inu puppies!  Ahh! I want them all!

Live video by Ustream

And an awesome shot I found on Flickr - Rosie & Buster Brown. So funnie!

I hate to say that I’m stressed out because yesterday was Glen’s birthday and I should have written a happy post but I’m a couple minutes too late.  To recap though, I made him a simple chocolate cake from a box and melted some chocolate chips with butter and milk as frosting.  See I told you I’ve been eating crap. I put those candy letters on the cake, spelling out “Happy Birthday Glen” along with some of our inside jokes with the letters I had left.  At midnight I told him to go to the kitchen and the cake had 2 lit candles on them.  He loved the gesture, and I gave him his birthday card and present which were these Bose headphones he wanted.

We went to church later in the day, and since we’ve never been to the particular church before it was quite interesting, and not like anything I’ve seen before.  I haven’t been to mass since last Christmas and I’m not used to just going to a weekly mass.  We were deciding about getting married in the church and to be honest with you, I just don’t really feel it’s a significant part of me, and Glen feels the same way.  We’re not really religious and the only reason we would be doing it is because our families expect us to.  I’ve read some forum threads online about people in the same situation and after going through calling churches, (since we don’t belong to one) getting the run around, and realizing how much it would be, it made me really think about it a lot more.  Getting married to us is sharing our love for each other, uniting into one (figuratively speaking) and spending the rest of our lives together with our families and friends, and that is our main objective.  If no one really gets that, then they don’t really know our love for each other.

So that’s pretty much my last week of being stressed but finally resolved after tears and frustration.  Wedding planning is hard.  We just need to take it one step at a time…and organize the binder we started putting together.

The dogs enjoyed the roasting and I was hoping they would start drooling but they were just excited that there was a party about to go on.  At one point during the party there was so many people in our house that we ran out of chairs!  The Wii was on and people were playing, there were shots being taken and Logan and Lex wandering the place seeing what was going on.  Glen and I got some gifts too which we weren’t expecting at all, but it was so nice of those who gave us stuff.  It’s pretty awesome that people were congratulating us and happy for us.

Here are some of the interesting pics out of the set:

This was in our backyard.  Awesome right??

LOL.  See Logan’s nose on the bottom?

Glen & I - so far I want this to be our official engagement photo

Glen and Future Bro In Law Justo taking a shot.

Andrew, Justo, Jenny and Jian taking a shot while I take the shot (picture).  I’m probably buzzed already, haha.

More pictures from the party on my Flickr page.

I know that there were times we didn’t see eye to eye but when it all comes down to it you’ve always been there for me. Love you Dad!

Mom, Dad and Me - I love my parents so much! <3

More pictures on Flickr!