"it's my birthday too!"

Birthdays!
So, My birthday was last Saturday on the 4th. I didn't really have much planned. Logan and I are part of the Tucanos and Benihana birthday clubs, so we get free meals during our birthday month, (his birthday is 10 days after mine) and I figured we'd go to Vegas for that since Vegas is only about an hour and a half away now. Anyway, Thursday night I climbed into my bed around 740ish...because I'm old and responsible and I get grumpy with only a little sleep....back off... ;) and as I was lying there trying to get to sleep I thought "maybe I'll just check the world of Facebook real quick before bed to make sure I'm not missing anything important...

I opened it up, and there at the top was a post from the Goo Goo Dolls...about their show the next day in Vegas! Whaaat? See what not having internet does to me?! I'm missing crucial updates! So of course I said "what? mandatory work meeting tomorrow? mandatory CPR certification tomorrow? uh...hello...The Goo Goo Dolls are here. I'm gonna be out of town." and that was that and the next morning as soon as the ticket office opened I had tickets! Obviously.
So- after work Logan and I headed to Vegas.

We went to Benihana to eat and our chef was awesome. He lit the whole table on fire. (They cook in front of you, so it was on purpose).  Logan's sister Jen lives in Vegas so she and her two cute kids came to eat with us and afterward the waitress brought me a birthday ice cream and sang "Happy Bearsday" to me. (she was asian and I couldn't help but call it my bearsday for the rest of the weekend.)
Theeen, we went to the red rocks casino for the concert. It was amazing. They have these great big pools and everyone was just kinda sitting with their feet in the water watching the show. Or sitting on these floating chairs. The place was so cool. Plus the crowd was awesome and totally just let us walk right through to get close. Johnny sounded so amazing that afterward Logan and I kept commenting that we didn't even feel like we went, because it sounded like listening to a CD.

Sad note- they told me I could bring in my camera and I had Logan grab it out of the car, but when we tried to get in they sent him away to check it because they said it was too fancy. Lame! So I walked in the show and turned around and Logan had just disappeared and was gone for.ev.er and I had no idea what happened to him. I was so confused. He eventually showed up and I just used my old camera and my phone camera- it's amazing how spoiled you get and how much you can tell a difference when you go from using a 15.1 megapixel camera to a 7 or like a 4 megapixel. ha ha. So, not the best pictures, but totally the best concert. It was my favorite venue I've seen anyone in probably.

I tried to get back and take a picture where you could see at least one of the pools, but it was kinda hard.

Just trust me that it was awesome. also, for your listening pleasure- here is their new song from the transformers 3 soundtrack. listen to it. you wont regret it. 



The next day, on my bearsday, Logan's other sister Kim came to St George with her two cute kids and Logan performed a show at the Tuacahn saturday market so we watched that and then got shave ice :) it was soo gooood. mmm.
That evening I told Logan I wanted a spotted dog ice cream with oreos and fudge from Outback so he ordered me one and we went to pick it up. When we got there the girl gave it to me for free since it was my bearsday. yay! We didn't have a candle so I blew out a lighter. ha ha.









 








Then we drove up to Zion canyon and had a campfire and camped out with both of logan's sisters and their families, and the next morning we drove the Thing around the canyon. We put the windshield down and just cruised, and it was super amazing to see it that way. It's so pretty here.

So, that wraps up my weekend- it was super amazing and I loved the whole thing.
The day after my birthday was little Nathan's second birthday. He's as adorable as ever and I can't believe its been two years. He's just the sweetest little guy and he's so much fun. I'm not even that biased! If you know him, you'll totally agree. ha ha. He called me on my birthday and left a message before I called him back saying "happy birthday Trina!" and I wanted to put it on here so you could hear how cute it is but I don't know how, so just imagine it in the cutest voice possible.  ;)