Yes, we are still celebrating Zach’s birthday.  Technically, his official 27th Birthday was on Wednesday – but everyone loves Zachary so much that we celebrated three times!  My whole family and myself chipped in to buy him a season pass up at Park City Mountain Resort.  He is going to be spending many a Saturday on the slopes.  I also got him a card with penguins on it, because that is his favorite animal.  Interesting fact:  his second favorite animal is a goat.

We ate his traditional dinner at Benihana – it was delicious, and that dang steaming onion gets me every time!

Our company was officially awarded the Browning and Winchester booths at SHOT Show!  I couldn’t be more excited.  I will have designed TWO booths at an exposition, and I talked my boss into sending me to the show in Las Vegas to see them.  The day the boys found out in the office, several of them took their lunch break up in Morgan to go buy guns with a pretty hefty discount without me.  Men…they definitely don’t waste time.

I had a lunch date with my Mom at Zupas – we gabbed over our bowls of soup.  She has a lot of school spirit [she works at Salt Lake Community College] hence the neon shirt.

We also stopped at Sweet Tooth Fairy – at which we bought some cake bites that I had the intention of sharing with my co-workers.  I ate them all myself in the 15 minute drive back to the office.

Zach and I went out with his parents to celebrate his birthday on Friday after work.  We took them to eat at a new place that we love and then took a stroll over to the Gateway.  We shopped for BYU [Mark] and Utah gear for the upcoming rivalry.  We then caught a late movie.

I love that Mark brings his own blanket to movies, by the way.  Because sometimes, you just want to cuddle up in a blanket in a movie theater!

I stocked up on some good reading material.  I really shouldn’t be allowed in bookstores in general – I want to buy everything!  I had a friend reccommend some great books [thanks Ang!] and I found them all…and then some.  I even purchased an “on-the-go” language learning tool.  I realize I am not going to learn French from this stupid CD, but I was suckered into it at the check-out line and couldn’t leave without it.

I tried out a new recipe: pumpkin muffins with two ingredients – a can of pumpkin and a box of yellow cake mix.  So easy, for the lazy baker like myself.  I am going to try a spice cake mix and a chocolate cake mix next time!  It is finally starting to feel a little like fall.

Speaking of fall…we attended the Utah vs. BYU football game at Rice Eccles Stadium on Saturday.  We dined at the OG before hand with my brother and then made the trek up to the University to battle the crowds.  It took two more times than neccessary, but Utah did finally walk away with a win…and at the stroke of midnight, no less!  We were so happy to be there to witness the Holy War and spend time with our family and friends.

Sunday after church we met up with Zach’s sister Lori to see the progress on her new spa.  She is expanding and moving her spa to a different and bigger location in Layton.  It is going to be a modern marvel, and we can’t wait to walk through it when it is all completed!

After our tour we had dinner over at her home with her cute family.  It was delicious, and dessert was an “old man” cake [please notice the two blonde hairs on the top] that his sister made for Zach’s birthday!

It was the perfect ending to a fun week – filled with family and friends.  Everyone that knows Zach loves him.  It was so much fun to celebrate with him and all of our loved ones, even though it was HIS birthday…he’s the best gift I could have ever been given!

I love you Zachary Mark!