A Great Weekend

The much anticipated Valentines/ BF's birthday weekend certainly did not disappoint. In fact it exceeded my expectations in every fantastically fun way. So much so that I was incapable of doing anything yesterday but recovering (basically I was just ridiculously lazy and didn't leave the house all day.)
Since the BF's birthday is actually on Valentines Day, we decided to celebrate our V-day friday night. We went for an incredible dinner at Darren's, a delicious new restaurant in Manhattan Beach that we had been dying to try. I had scallops with saffron & apple risotto (yum) & the boy had lobster... we split a kobe beef appetizer, and drank a bottle of 1984 cabernet (his birth year!), which was a gift from my parents. This picture is ridiculously awkward. We had already finished dinner and were about to leave but I wanted a picture of us at the table.

After dinner some of his friends met up with us and we all went out to a local bar to have a few more drinks before his actual birthday at midnight..
Saturday was pretty chaotic. The BF's family wanted to spend some time with us (him) on his birthday, so we drove down to his Grandfather's house (about an hour away) for some homemade pizza (I helped his mom make it!), presents, & cake. This of course took twice as long as we had planned, and from there we went back to the BF's house to get ready (in about 3 minutes), and then to our friends house for drinks & cupcakes before karaeoke.
Our fabulous friend Julia made the most hilarious cupcakes (with all of our faces and inside jokes on them) & the cutest gift ever (phimo clay magnets of ourselves, and the word "babe" because we jokingly always call each other "babe" because we think its hilarious, and they always make fun of us...)

She is so thoughtful & creative! Thanks Julia!!!!
We then went on to the Brass Monkey, which was asbolutely packed (on Valentines Day!), and proceeded to embarass ourself with lots of karaoke...

It was a great night. The BF had an absolute blast, and kept thanking me for organizing everything for him (so sweet!)... and although we woke up Sunday morning on a deflated air mattress (apparently there was a hole), in our friend's living room , feeling like death ... We proceeded to drive to China town, stuff ourselves with Dim Sum (chinese dumplings) and then see He's Just Not That Into You. I'm pretty sure I'm the luckiest girl in the entire world because I was able to talk my very hung over boyfriend & his best friend into seeing the biggest chick flick of all time with me. Amazignly we all loved it, and declared it a great hang over cure. (Further proving my theory that guys actually do enjoy chick flicks.)
After all that we went back to his placed and passed out by 9pm to the sound of the rain... it was a GREAT weekend.