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Celebratory Weekend Things

Lauren4 Comments

Despite the fact that I had (and still have) the cold from hell — sore throat, hacking cough, barely have a voice right now — I had such a good weekend.  Well, except for the part where I skipped out on the Rockies game to go to bed at 8 PM on Friday night…

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I will say that the one good thing about being sick, is having an excuse to eat multiple meals in bed.  And then follow that meal up with a nap.

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I pulled up the audio of the Rockies game and listened to that from bed as well.  It wasn’t quite the same as seeing the game, but it was a lot comfier.

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On Saturday morning, we took a drive around Denver and when hunger hit, I opened up my Yelp app (I seriously love that app!) and found us the cutest little breakfast restaurant/bakery called The Wooden Spoon.  It was teeny tiny inside but we were able to grab a little two-person table right after placing our order of two egg scrambles with roasted red peppers, arugula, a cilantro goat cheese and baguette with housemade jam on the side.

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The main event of this weekend was something that’s been in the works for months.  Joey’s mom Lori is 50 years young today and we had a huge surprise for her on Saturday.  Her nieces took her out to get her nails done and when she got back home there were about 15 of us and a limo waiting for her.  She was so shocked!

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Then we showed up at the Rockies game and escorted her to our private warning track-level suite!  There was definitely some many tears of happiness.  And it just kept getting better, as about 20 more people arrived.

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The suite was so cool.  I basically felt like we were on the field, plus we had our own bartender, a buffet of ballpark fare, and shuffleboard (that all the guys were so into…typical).  I felt like it was my birthday!

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I was so excited to have my family and Hannah (plus her dinglehopper) there too.  Hanging out with these two girls makes me so so excited for our trip to Vegas later this month.

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My heart was so full seeing Lori so happy.  Not to mention how proud I was of Joey for being such an amazing son and helping plan such a great celebration for his mom.

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Today has been less about drinking margaritas (which is fine by my sore throat) and more about celebrating Lori’s actual birthday with Mary Poppins at the Buell Theater (I had to resist the urge to sing along with every number) and an early birthday dinner at Maggiano’s on the 16th Street Mall.

The work week starts up again tomorrow, but I am all smiles right now.

Weekend Things

Lauren4 Comments

My baby sister is officially 21-years old.  Ahem, too much celebrating means a later than usual “Weekend Things” post.  I don’t know how or when this happened but it makes me feel old.  Although, I got in a big discussion about how old I look when we were out celebrating this weekend and the general consensus was 18…

Friday kicked off with a little deal between Joey and I.  I said I’d go to the Rockies game and suffer being cold if we could grab dinner at Vine Street Pub before.  The wait for a table was 30 minutes, but we were able to sit right away out on the patio.

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A little chilly, but nothing my jacket and a good beer couldn’t fix.

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Reubens and burgers for the win!  Every time we eat at Vine I wonder why we don’t live in a quirky Denver house within walking distance.  Then I remember it’s because I’m not that wealthy.  And also because anyone who’s living that dream doesn’t seem to be in the market to sell it to me 🙂

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The game wasn’t half bad.  We were all bundled up in jackets and our Rockies blanket (I love that thing!) and the people sitting in front of us (in our actual seats) were only mildly annoying.  Plus we won!

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More winning on Saturday at the Nuggets first playoff game.  We won on a final second shot — so exciting!  In other news, I feel really grateful for Joey’s family, without whom I wouldn’t have access to such fun and exciting sporting events.

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The guy behind us missed out on an amazing photo bomb opportunity.

I have no idea how this happened, but I have zero photos from the 21st birthday celebration on Saturday night!  Although, this is probably a good thing — technology and alcohol usually don’t mix well.  The gist of it was late night appetizers and drinks at the 9th Door, which had the most amazing DJ mixing up everything from Britney Spears to Mumford and Sons (Joey and I were ready to book him in advance for our future wedding), then we hit up the Denver bars for Everclear cherries, birthday cake shots and the usual drunken debauchery.

I made sure my new-to-the-bar-scene sister learned this one important lesson: There is nothing like the camaraderie between girls in the women’s bathroom at a bar.  Nothing.

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Classier (and slightly more sober) celebrations occurred the next day at the Med.

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Highlights being a table for 5 next to a big window that allowed me to capture some lovely pictures.  Like this grilled salmon cobb salad (serious yum!), my dad and his paella and my sister actually cooperating and letting me take a picture of she and my mom.

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And then I may have snuck another one just for fun.

Although the dining out, game watching and bar hanging was all a ton of fun, the highlight of the whole weekend was hearing my sister say she had the perfect birthday 🙂

Happy Tuesday to you all!

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