Brad's 31st Birthday {November 24th}

Well folks it is official Brad is older then me and will be for the next 4 months.  What can a say I like my man older!!  Some years we get to celebrate his birthday on Thanksgiving or the day before or after but this year it was nice that it fell the weekend before.  We kicked off the weekend festivities at Brad's all time favorite restaurant the "OG" for those of you that don't know that stands for the Olive Garden.  He absolutely is obsessed loves this restaurant, he even had to get his picture taken in front of the one in NYC when we were there as he got giddy by the flashiness on Times Square.  Anyways I digress about the love affair that he has with the OG, moving on!  My mom and I celebrated and gave him his gifts and made it a fun night.

NYC May 2013, notice the "OG" in the back

OG Brad opening gifts

 

The next day we left for Black Hawk to stay with friends at Ameristar.  Ya'll this is the BEST place to gamble and have a weekend get away in Colorado.  We usually go up for all of our birthdays and to just relax and have fun.  They have excellent rooms with fabulous views, and amazing pool and roof top hot tub, awesome spa, bar and a great buffet.  It is only about 1 hour from our house and honestly the nicest quick weekend get away.  We met our friends John and Maggie and Michelle and Alex for the weekend of festivities.  In true Black Hawk fashion we had an awesome time hopping between the casinos, eating WAY too much food, drinking lots of bubbly and hot tubing, LIFE IS GOOD!! We were able to gamble on Sunday and enjoy the Champagne brunch. They had so many new fun machines including Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sex in the City and Princess Bride.  I get so wrapped up on the music and "ding" noise it just makes me smile.  Unfortunately we didn't win BIG but we had an awesome time and got to celebrate an awesome birthday.  

 

My big win of $40

The one and only... Ameristar Blackhawk