Happy Birthday Andy!

When it comes to celebrating birthdays Andy and I couldn’t be more opposite. I, on one hand, like to go big, celebrate big and be around lots of loved ones. Andy prefers to have his birthday be just another day. No surprise parties, no attention brought to him and no get togethers. I do not understand this behavior and I certainly have a hard time abiding by Andy’s wishes every year for his birthday. Yesterday was Andy’s birthday and I wanted to have friends over for drinks, food and cornhole, but he did not want to be on the spotlight so there was no party and no friends…just us! I guess as much as I don’t understand Andy’s lack of wanting a celebration he doesn’t understand my need to make a big deal out of a birthday.

So, with that said, this is how we spent Andy’s 29th birthday yesterday. We had breakfast together and then I gave him his present which is a new wireless blu-ray dvd player. It was something he asked for Christmas and since he did not get it I filed that away in my memory to get that for him for his birthday. After his gift he spent the next couple hours getting it all set up and getting our Netflix account synched with it. That is the best feature of the blu-ray player…the fact that we can download movies right from our Netflix account. I knew nothing about blu-ray players and in fact I didn’t understand why Andy wanted a new one, but since he wanted one I went into Best Buy to get educated on them. My salesman, who was about 16 years old, was extremely helpful in letting me know the difference between all of the brands. He also made me feel like kind of an idiot (I don’t think that was his intention) because he is half my age and knew everything about electronics.

So, after the opening of the gift Andy spent his day doing random things until I took us out to our favorite restaurant, Eddie V’s. We absolutely love that restaurant and since it was my only surprise for him I didn’t tell him until we were about ready to leave. He was pretty excited since Eddie V’s is not a restaurant we get to go to on a regular basis. Following dinner Andy was not interested in going out for drinks as he was more interested in getting a new blu-ray dvd to watch on the new player. So, the Audi took us to Target so we could fulfill Andy’s birthday wish. We picked out The Blind Side and it was such an amazing movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, you must! I won’t say anything else about the movie so I don’t spoil it for anyone.

So, even though there was no party yesterday for Andy I still got to spoil him as he turned 29. I was happy just to be able to spend the day with him. I hope he had a great birthday and I look forward to more birthdays with him.