Amy's 29th Birthday

So for Amy's 29th birthday, after Amy and Anthony made a trip to Olive Garden for Soup, Salad and Breadsicks... the Benezra family (Amy, Anthony, Debbie, Larry, Jeremy, Selena, Jason and Libbye - Taylor and Samara were unable to attend) went sunset sea kayaking at Alki. We were going to take pictures, but it was way too windy and wet and never took any. But despite our lack of proof, it did happen and was fun, a great workout and so pretty to see Seattle from that view, and of course the sunset too (even in not so pleasant weather conditions). Definitely want to try that again in nicer weather (anyone wanna join us?). So strange since the weather had been holding all week up until 10 minutes before we headed out. The tour was fun, but a lot of work. The weather made for a "challenging blue run" according to our cool instructor, Adam (who also commented that where he is from the tour would have been more like a black diamond run, but that's cuz the conditions where he's from are weak sauce). The funky weather made it that much more challenging and fun! And... COLD!



After the tour and a quick stop at Buffalo to change clothes and pretty ourselves up a bit, we went to Pearl in Bellevue for happy hour drinks and snacks with Larry and Debbie. Amy dreams of the Pearl happy hour and takes any excuse to go! She was so pumped! She had her favorite drink, the Sisho Wild Drop, along with fried beechers cheese and some other good apps, then spluged with the butterscotch sundae - SO GOOD!



The next day we opened presents in the morning and then went to the Brelsford's for dinner and movies. See the loot below.Amy's friend, basically the brother she never had, Nick, gave her these pretty Enzo shoes..... Her favorite make and style in a new color (she already has MOST of them... so these just add to her beautiful collection)
As Amy was taking photos, she tried to be quick so the cats would stay off the loot, specifically the sweatshirt. She took a photo, turned, took a photo of another item, and within those 3 second, a little ninja swooped in. See below as Mute took Amy's new sweatshirt as her own. Mute is representing the Spartans!
After presents, (as mentioned earlier) we went to the Brelsford's for dinner. Amy got to choose the entire menu which included a fresh salad, onion soup, baked potatoes, cod and chocolate cake! Mom surprised us with coconut gelato too! MMmm! The best part, really, was the cake. Mom makes it for Amy every year and she really looks forward to it. This year she asked Mom to save a little bit of the batter so she could eat that too, her favorite! MMM! No wonder she couldn't finish her dinner since she had cake batter as an appetizer!! Thanks Ma, everything was SO GOOD!



This was Amy's 29th Birthday, the first of many. It goes, 29, 30, 29, 29, 29... Anthony made it especially special for her, not only by giving her nice gifts and a beautiful necklace that Amy had her eye on months (maybe over a year) ago... but Anthony gave her the nicest gift ever. He found a book called "what i love about you" which is one of those fill-it-in-yourself books. It must have taken Anthony hours to fill in. It has all these places where you fill in what the page tells you so that the reader learns about all the ways that the author loves them. How long they've been together, their favorite quirks about you, words to describe you, if you were a drink you'd be ____, if our story was a book it would be titled _____, etc. It was just so touching and something Amy will keep for all times and read often! She's already read it twice...



Next year is a big one for both of us! Yikes! The big 3-0! But let's not get ahead of ourselves, Anthony is just a baby at 28 afterall... can't wait for his big day this August!