So the next mission of the green box involved watching the sunrise.

We decided to make some tea while we watch nature's event.

(we were sleepy)

And it was a very cloudy morning unfortunately.

The pictures turned out alot brighter than it actually was outside.  Otherwise, it looks like we just sat outside in the middle of the day!  Not the case, I promise.

And it wasn't raining (yet), but the sprinklers were on.

We were sooo tired.

We actually enjoyed ourselves, despite all of our sad/sleepy photos.

And sure we could do it again when there is a more beautiful sunrise, but it was still a nice thing to do.  And it will be even nicer in the winter when the sun comes up at like, 8.

ok, now I'm 27

So friday (June 18), I come home from work and Malachi is sassily making spaghetti.

I'm home for at least 30 minutes when I see a box over by the door.  Malachi says "Oh ya, a box came for you today."

I happily hop skip and jump over to the door, then stop abruptly.  "When did this come?!  It says to put it in the fridge immediately!"  Not a problem though.  There was dry ice in that box, and the contents were still mightily cold.  It was awesome.  And what was in the box?  ICE CREAM!!!  And such delicious flavors.  Mmmmm!

Thank-you Vanessa!  Very awesome gift, well done!

Vanessa asked me to tell her which was my favorite flavor.  Well, I couldn't decide until I realized that I finished the entire Belgium Chocolate embarrassingly fast.  So that must have been it.  In second I'm gonna have to put Wildberry Lavender.  It's a little less sweet, but...well, perfect.  I love it.  And its lavender ice cream!!  In third, the Strawberry Buttermilk, and in 4th is the salty caramel, though still delicious.  Oh man, thats good stuff!

Another breakfast one from the box!  "Malachi must prepare breakfast for Lyndsey - Her favorite breakfast :) "  From Malachi's mom.  This worked out well for an awesome start to my birthday day!

So Malachi got to work making my favorite breakfast.  He even used real milk for me!

Panakoekens!!

Look at my little family, so excited to present me my breakfast of champions!

Malachi made himself one with rice dream and topped with Agave Syrup, and he really liked it!  Yay!

After breakfast, we lazily got ready and then headed out to the other side of the cities for the U of M Arboretum.

But there are lots of pictures from that, so I will make a separate post for that :)

Afterwards, we headed to St. Paul and ate at Pazza Luna.  One of our faves.  We got there too early to eat a meal, but we could have happy hour appetizers.  And boy did we.  We ate SO MUCH!

My fried zuchinni (mmm!)

Malachi's no-cheese pizza

My artichoke dip creation (eh, it was alright)

Malachi's...uh...I can't remember.  Some sort of fried vegetable.

And the BEST creme brulee in the world!  (It has a little chocolate in the middle!

(Malachi tried to steal it from me)

Mmm!!  This is my favorite desert!  I love it.

Me.  Feeling complete.

But wait, what's this!?  I get a present too?!  A gift card to Banana Republic and it's sister stores!

And we finished the day at SATC2.

Not really a good movie.  I really liked the first one.  This one seemed a little too old of humor for me and some cheap attempts at laughs.  And the fashion was not very inspiring.  Oh well, it was still fun to go!

Thank-you Malachi!

Let the fun begin!

So we have recently started the to-do's in the green box!  We have only done one so far and have no idea what any of the others say.  We are keeping each one a suprise.  The first one was from Eric and Marla...

We definitely were unable to do this in order, and ended up even being on WAAAY different days.  Malachi did make me breakfast in bed :)  It was cinnamon raisen toast and scrambled eggs.  Mmm.

Ikea was a different story.  The first attempt, we got there pretty much right as they locked the doors for the night.

So we tried again the next week (we only had date nights available to hit up Ikea) and we didn't eat out like we had the week before (at an awesome Thai Restaraunt).  We got some fast food and ate it on the way.  We did not want to miss our second chance!  And we didnt!  But we were a little disappointed.  A bit of it was under construction at the time.  And every time we found something we liked, it was sold out.  So, we marked down the info of the things we liked, grabbed a catalogue and called it a night!

Since I don't have a picture of my breakfast in bed, I decided to add an earlier date night where Malachi can eat breakfast at any time of day at...CUPCAKE!!!

They have this sign on the door:

And i had a pistachio cupake.  It was very good, but still doesnt compare to my memory of the triple chocolate cupcake.  oh man. :)