early birthday dinner

today after church and lunch at KoMart with friends, DH and I headed over to my parental-in-laws and had an early birthday dinner for me :)  MIL made LOTS of Korean food...dduk mandoo gook (dumpling and rice cake soup), pork short ribs, chap chae (stir fried glassy noodles with vegetables - aka my favorite korean dish), korean seafood pancake...I'm stuffed now.   I would've take more pictures of the food...but I was so busy eating after the first dish came out...that I didn't get any other food pics.  Here's the soup dish that we started with though :)

so yummy and warm on a very cold evening down here

and for dessert my most wonderful SIL and her hubby brought cupcakes from Crave...

They got the red velvet cupcake for me and it was YUMMY ;)

The in-laws also got a yummy cake that was very light and perfect.  A great balance to the very rich cupcake.

and here I am blowing out my birthday candle - kudos to DH for not getting too blurry of a photo :)

this was also my P365 POTD for Day 3

After dinner I took a pic of our new niece with her grandpa and grandma - so sweet!

and finally a pic with Baby M and her uncle

then we came home and i undecorated the tree and packed everything away.  now i'm just hoping the DH manages to get the tree outside for the tree pick up before it's too late.  did i mention our tree was BROWN by the time we got it out of the house last year.  sheesh...it must've been february before we took out tree down last year. lol.

back to work on Monday and I'm kind of looking forward to it.  i miss my co-worker buddies :)  hopefully i will manage to come home from at at decent hour tomorrow and then make it to the gym for a quick workout.  crazy as it sounds, i actually dropped a few pounds during my vacation time off.  i think it's more b/c i wasn't eating out for lunch every day with my co-worker buddies. :oP

anyhoo - hope you all had a lovely weekend!  ttfn!