MY BIRTHDAY PARTY!! + Our Valentine's Day!

Hi guys, good morning! Welcome to the vlog. Hello. I am starting off this vlog with my latest crafting project that I finished last night that I had to show you because I'm so excited about it. Dun dun dun dun dun dun. Look what we, wow, that was like so not on pitch. Look what I rhinestone you guys. This is a matcha tin. Let me show you the before. Here's the before, here is the after. I'm thinking of maybe doing this one in like a baby pink or a baby blue rhinestone

because I had so much fun doing this. Look how gorgeous you guys. I will say, Cal told me that this definitely looks like something that you hide something in and I can't disagree, but I am being honest. It's just, it's my matcha. Good morning. I'm so excited about this. I think we will tackle this one very soon I had so much fun. It was just very relaxing. This is my etsy matcha that I talk about a lot Good morning. I am making myself a matcha Ollie will be here any moment and we are going to make some really fun content today

I need to go pick up some ingredients and I was trying to think what do I want to make? Valentine's Day meal coded. And then I realized I never did a recipe for the viral Korean favorite Ikseon gochujang carbonara creamy pasta thing. We're gonna have to figure out a better name for that when I make the video. But it's basically like that gochujang creamy tomato pasta that I got in Korea

that I have been thinking about nonstop. And I feel like I perfected the recipe. So I never shared that. So we're gonna do that today. I need to go pick up some ingredients for that. But before we go, I wanna make my matcha. I was soaking my whisk

and then I'm also really, really, really excited because today I'm gonna go see Holden. My mom's taking me to a little belated birthday dinner, just a girls night, just her and I tonight. And then before then I get to see Holden And I'm really excited because I have something very special planned for us today. So I'm just in the best mood I've been waking up so early ever since turning 31. I'm here three days ago

I've been waking up so early without even trying which you guys know. I'm not a morning person So we're gonna try to keep this going. All right, we got our matcha I'll do two teaspoons and we'll just sit this Gorgeous, and then I just figured this is so beautiful when I finish this matcha I can just clean out this tin and just reuse this over and over again. It's so beautiful. I love it I did a mixture of like tiny little rhinestones on the top and then bigger ones on the side and it's just like a tiny

Little difference, but it's beautiful. I think I'm definitely gonna do baby blue. I think that'll be really cute We've got our water heated to 186 degrees I'm just gonna put a little bit of that in there and then we'll get working on our zigzag motion Okay. Now matcha is beautiful and foamy I'm gonna put it in a to-go cup and I'm just gonna do this tiny little one because I found my drinks lately, I've been liking way less milk and just more coffee or more matcha. I think I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do the mini ice cubes today.

Ice in the cup, we're gonna make this one very simple. We're gonna do a little milk, just a bit. We're gonna do some sugar-free vanilla syrup. We're gonna do our matcha. And then to clean out the bowl, but without watering it down,

I'm gonna put a little more milk in here. There we go.

No waste.

Top it with a little more ice.

Perfect.

Lid on.

Juj.

Gorgeous. Mm, oh, it's perfect. Ever so slightly sweet. Look at that color. Insane. Okay, let me clean,

and we're gonna head out to go to the grocery store. Look at the Valentine's Day setup. Adorable. There's also like a big flower area outside. I'll show you. So cute.

We're here for some pork belly. Okay, we're looking for tomato paste.

Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun.

Tomato paste, look who's here. Hi! In your Mariah Carey merch.

You love that merch.

We found it. We got a can. They're pulling out the red carpet. Give us a strut, babe.

Five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three.

Yes, I had the sweet pinball.

Yes, you had the sweet pinball. They bought all these beautiful flowers. I'm gonna get them for Lily and my mom over here.

And Cal.

And Cal.

I think I'm gonna get a little one for Holdy because Ollie just told me the saddest thing ever. What, tell them what you said.

Boys don't get flowers only when they die. That's horrible. So holdies getting flowers today. Oh my god. You need a photo of him holding it His little hands. It'll look like life-size

I think little like yellow and then for my mom I think I'll do All right We're home and we're cooking. We made the pork belly already I've learned before the first time I ever made this recipe. I think I blogged that time. I made the pork belly already. I've learned before, the first time I ever made this recipe, I think I blogged that time, I made the pork belly. I love crispy pork belly, but I made it too crispy,

and I feel like with the pasta, you need a little more chew, so I've learned now to not make it so crispy, but just get the outside a little crunchy. Also, everybody.

Oh, oh, yes!

Five big sips, cheers! As annoying as I am on videos about drinking water, I'm even worse in real life, I really am. I make sure everybody in my life is always staying hydrated. Okay, while the pasta's cooking, I do have something that I've been waiting to share with you.

Ah!

What are those?

If you guys remember in the last vlog

or a couple vlogs back,

I made the Dubai chewy Korean cookies. And so I saved most of them. Cal and I shared one, it was phenomenal. And then I know I made them too big because the strawberry is big. I did like a big strawberry inside.

And so we can share one actually right now if you'd rather. And so they're so delicious. And so I put them in the fridge for the past couple days and then they harden because it's marshmallow. But then I set them out this morning. I know me too. I set them out this morning and they've come to room temp and they're squishy again.

They actually look perfect. So let's slice one in the middle. You guys can see while I share with Ollie.

Sharing is caring.

Sharing is caring. Okay, here they are. It is really big. I also want to share with Alicia

because she said that she wants one. So I'll bring these to her tomorrow. I wanted to try this so bad. I kept looking at cafes and they would just be like instantly sold out.

They sell out so fast. So I was like, I'm just going to make it myself.

I wonder if this will be like the new thing. Like, you know how it was like the chocolate bar? Like, will this become like the new,

like they'll make like a million of them. I didn't even see it, because it actually was pretty easy to make. Yeah. Sorry, I'm trying to not burn my onions back here.

Okay, let's slice it.

Let me get a serrated knife, because I feel like we need a slicer.

Here we go.

Right down the middle.

The cutting sound.

The crunch.

Oh my God, what's in the middle?

So I did a pink't edit the video. I honestly forgot. I mean it's been a little while. Pink strawberry. I will say as cute as the pink strawberry is, I think the red would actually have been cuter when you slice it down the middle. Just cause like the pink looks a little white. Like it looks a little ghostly.

What makes a pink strawberry? It's uh, it's called a pineberry. Oh my god I like the texture.

Cheers babe. Okay.

Mmm. Actually, it holds up very well.

Oh, fuck.

Yeah, I'm gonna finish this.

The crunch is still crunchy. The strawberry still juicy. I was worried the strawberry might like leave juices inside.

This is really good.

I think it's been two days since I made it.

It's really good.

Oh my God, the crunch is so satisfying.

It's actually really, really good. The mistake I made was I used cacao powder, which has way less sugar content than cocoa powder. I honestly like this. I like the tartness or like the bitterness that I rolled it in powdered sugar. So it's just a little bit of sweetness. So it's overall not too sweet.

I love how chewy. Also, I feel like the strawberry juices like kind of mix.

It helps especially, right? I actually think you need the strawberry, the tartness from the strawberry to break up like the richness of the pistachio the chocolatiness the sweetness Wow. It's good, right? Mm-hmm. I'm actually really proud of myself. I want to try one from a bakery or cafe to see if I did it, right? Mm-hmm. I don't know though. All right, I'm gonna finish my pasta. I'll show you I'm so excited We finished the pasta. Does this not look almost exactly how it did in Korea? We got cows, we got mine, and we got our third Ollie's!

Yum!

I love it! We made it, everybody roll call. Revy, here.

Suzanne, here.

Holden, here.

There we go, we're going to a little playground. What song do you want me to play?

Old MacDonald.

Old MacDonald? You want that the whole way?

Okay.

Hello, Mom!

Hi, guys! Okay. Hello mom. Hi guys. We're at a Thai restaurant that I've been coming to since I was young.

Elementary school. Elementary school.

And look at this gorgeous chicken satay. I love a chicken satay. My mouth is watering. I love the cucumber, I love the peanut sauce. And then we got some crab rangoons. Yummy.

All right, we got a tom kha coconut soup with tofu. Tom kka something. Tonka. Yum. And we got pad thai.

Delish.

Hello guys! Okay, it is the next day. Yesterday was so fun and cute. I got a car seat so that I could drive Holden around and we went to this really cute indoor playground and I got to play with him

and it was just so fun and so sweet. We made so many memories. And now it is the next day. I got my makeup done today because today is my birthday party. I'm so excited. We have a lot to get done before tonight though. We have to go record three pods. We're doing two PB's and then a BU today and then we're gonna have a little

pregame. It's just been go, go, go since this morning. Things have been so crazy but the birthday party's tonight. I'll catch you guys up along the day. I just did this Impress Press On Manny. Oh, I did my spray tan or my self tan last night. My hands look a little orange. And then also last night I was trying to figure out what to wear. I got two options for dresses, one long, one short.

I really, really, really wanted to wear the short because I didn't want to go too dressy for tonight. I wanted to be a little bit more on the casual side or like a cocktail attire, but the short dress didn't come in time. It's not coming till tomorrow. So I have the long dress and it was gorgeous, but it was giving gown for, you know, when I told people they don't need to dress up.

And then I feel like that's weird if I come in a gown when I told people don't dress up. So Cal helped me last night and we found an outfit that I'm actually very much looking forward to wearing. Sorry, it's just crazy right now. But I need to run out the door quite literally right now to head to the studio. We gotta record. I'll catch you very soon. It's birthday party night, yay!

Hello guys.

Okay, sorry for the really chaotic morning. We had a crazy time, got here, did our first episode of PB. We're now moving on to our second, and officially my Celsius has kicked in, so I'm ready to speak. Woo! Woo! Look at her sweater! Isn't that cute?

I'm excited.

Are you excited for tonight?

Bitch.

Bitch.

I'm so excited.

It's gonna be so much fun. Now we're gonna record our second episode and it's gonna be amazing. And then we've got a BU meeting, we've got a BU recording, and then it's time to party.

Yay!

See you soon.

Hello guys! Okay, we finished all of our recordings. Yay! Oli, come over here!

Hi!

It's birthday dinner time! We just did the two PB's. We did the basically. And surprisingly, I have a good amount of energy. We did our Z-Biotics. And now, I'm getting dressed. And I actually really love my outfit. Oli, I think you're gonna love it. It's very Oli-coated. Sorry again. I was scrambling. I wanted to wear the short dress It's not coming till tomorrow. I have a long dress, but like it was a little too much

So can never be too much just wait. Okay, so I'm wearing this black skirt. Okay, close your eyes. I'll show you you're dressing like me tonight

Okay, look you're literally

It's like it's not a poncho but it's like a long one shoulder shirt. It's long. It's long and then with the black mini skirt underneath. I thought it was cute. That's literally me. It's so it's so poly coated. I thought it was cute and it's like perfect for the night. I feel like it's like you know fancy. What was your dress that you were gonna get black? Yes it was literally just a black mini dress so So this is perfect. And then I've got the cutest shoes, which are so hard to walk in.

I've been obsessed with this brand because the past two events that I've gone to, I wore shoes from this brand called Femme LA. They're from Femme LA. The shoes that I've worn have been so, so comfortable. And these are so gorgeous and strappy and cute. The only thing is they're a really high

Can you see that? Yeah, look how high that arches so it's hard to walk in but it will look really cute with the outfit So how's high exactly once I put them on you're not gonna wear the socks with the heels I mean could be kind of cute but not today. I think they're really cute though. They're just really cute. They're so sexy and like a little strappy. I don't know if you can see, there you go. But the only thing is...

They're very high.

Yeah, they're really high and they're hard to walk in,

but they're gorgeous, gorgeous. Alicia and Dane were here,

but they had to run home to finish getting ready.

Yeah, they had to go home together.

We're gonna go.

Here is the look, finishing touches. I'm bringing my Amazon bag. I've got my G7X. And then for powder, I have my Flower Nose Touch Up Powder. My makeup honestly has stayed on really well all these hours, but just a little touch up because it is now going on like hour 10 of this makeup. Shout out to Eros, crushed it.

For lips, I have my Kylie Lip Pencil, boom.

And then Fenty Rose Amber Lip Gloss, For lips, I have my Kylie lip pencil. Boom.

And then Fenty Rose Amber lip gloss, which is so beautiful with the silver sparkle.

There we go.

That's the look, let's go.

We made it to dinner.

We're here with Taramana, you guys.

Everybody's here.

It's so beautiful. I feel so much love in the room. I'm smiling a hill right now.

Cheers. This is called a hill right now. Cheers!

This is called the Remy Rita.

Um, yeah.

Ooh, that is strong.

That is good.

We have like a really buttery roll. My mouth is coated in butter right now.

I know, it's so buttery. It's perfect.

Potato lasagna, roasted mustard sprouts, braised, and then broiled with chicken stock and bacon. Great flavor. And then our boursin cheese.

I can't remember if I told you guys already because I already had a few sips of my margarita, but we did bring a birthday cake, but it got left at the studio.

So.

My fault.

Sorry. That's okay.

Round two, Alish Marie, on the way over, is grabbing my cake for me. Best, best friend of the year. She'll be arriving soon, we'll get them. The cake has arrived!

Yay! My cake delivery girl's here.

I'm so sorry.

She apologized.

I said, bitch, call me, beat me when you wanna reach me.

Also, steak 48 really does a heavy pour on your drinks if you would like to come here.

My God. So tequila. I'm also steak 48 really does a heavy pour on your drinks if you would like to come here my god

So tequila, oh my god the hanging bacon has arrived everybody. Yes, bro. Can you get in there? We are here at the dinner What'd you get lovey? I got the rib eye I got the crab cake. I was gonna grab the plate, but apparently it's 500 degrees Oh wait, mine's not that hot because it's crab cakes, but we have crab cakes Oh my gosh, I'm so nervous. ♪ You and me, time and time again, you and me, you and me.

♪ To you. Woo! Woo! Woo! Yay! Yay!

Yay! Thank you guys.

Thank you, Lucas.

We're at the bar.

Should we sing? Will you sing, Boo?

Boo, no.

No, she actually doesn't. She wouldn't even have that on karaoke, but they should.

He's from Texas, Jack.

A tale by the way. Everybody say hi to the vlog.

What's up vlog?

Is this Rem Life?

This is Rem Life.

Oh, I don't want to play with this.

What song should I sing at this karaoke bar?

Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't fuck with rum life. I'm thinking. There's like too much drama on there. I can't do that. It's not good for my brain.

Move out of my fucking way! I'm her photographer! It's the next morning!

Last night was so fun. We didn't have dinner till 8.30. Dinner started at 8.30, so we didn't finish dinner till I think like 11, 11.30 or so. By the time we got to the bar, it was like midnight and I think we all left at like 1 30 in the morning you guys that was so fun though I woke up to a delivery from Krispy Kreme they randomly DM'd me and they're like hi can we send you donuts and I was like yes you can absolutely do that we've got some donuts

here oh wow we got a box of the classic is this what you want. Cal's been waiting all morning for me to vlog.

There you go, baby.

Woo!

He's been waiting all morning for me to vlog. Honestly, I want a bite too.

We both said wow at the same time.

So simple, yet so perfect.

So perfect.

Mm, and they sent over, oh my God! So cute! How perfect are these for Valentine's Day? That's adorable. Thank you so much to Krispy Kreme. Big fan of your work.

Also, my sweet Steph sent me over this box, which I've never heard of this before, and I have to recommend it. It's called Sugar Wish. It's basically like a candy gram. She sent me this random message.

My sweet baby angel, happy birthday. I love you So cute and I got to go in and pick my own candy and she was like which K did you pick and I said? Stuff I just need everyone to know I have the most diabolical taste when it comes to candy I do love a gummy bear, but this is what I ordered It's so many fun options on there though So if you're looking to give someone a birthday gift or like a I don't know any sort of gift

It was so easy and it was really fun to pick out. They had so many different options. These were my picks for candy We've got Holland mints, which are those like butter mints that are covered in chocolate. Let's do a taste test I never had one you'll like it. They're like a chocolate mint

Mmm, it's kind of a junior mint. I love them. I love them. I got Oh Chocolate marshmallows. These were like the leftovers from the holidays. I don't care. I love it chocolate marshmallow. Oh

It's like a freeze-dried marshmallow on the inside I very much like this next one of my favorite candies in the world chocolate rocks I love these since I was a kid if you've never seen them. These are the holiday ones, too Oops, they have regular ones, but I figured why not get the holiday, you know, let's celebrate all year long Have you had a chocolate rock before? It looks like a rock but it's chocolate I love them. I love the crunchy outside. It's good, fun. I think they taste good. Just you know, it's basically an M&M It's crunchy. Yes. It's like an M&M. You're right. Okay next we got the fruity candies. I also love these things

I forget what they're called. They're like little raspberries and they come in like red or black. These ones are pink They're like a gumdrop covered. Mmm. Okay. I'm kind of sick of candy I know I'll just show you the rest Swedish sour watermelons. Love these sour peach ovals. Yeah. Thank you Steph I love you so much. I'm super excited about my candy Thank you Steph and now I'm gonna lay on my couch and watch Gossip Girl all day long. See you eventually. I'm so lucky. Oh Thank you, baby. Always runs to get the door for me. What a gentleman. Thank you, babe. Cheers

Look at that little doodle on his cup for Valentine's Day

Hey guys

It's Valentine's Day. Oh my god. I just realized the last clips you saw were definitely for my birthday party We had so much fun. That was a great time Yesterday we just chilled all day watched Gossip girl. Oh you saw me in the kitchen duh It's the next day. It's Valentine's Day We had to run a work errand this morning and now we're gonna go have a little Valentine's Day luncheon I keep saying it's so cold outside. It's like

I do just have this like thin shirt on yet for some reason I still got a nice latte But we're gonna go get some seafood for lunch. We've been wanting to go to the pier. So let's go Look at these giant shrimps They've got all the seafood, oh my gosh, hi. All right round one. What'd you get baby?

I got fish and chips.

Fish and chips. I got a few breaded shrimp and some soup, and then I got some steamed crab that's being cooked right now. Oh no, steamed lobster and crab.

Woo-hoo!

Ooh, this looks good.

I've never had such smooth lobster bisque.

It's normally a little chunky.

Little chunky.

Little chunky, ooh.

Good lobster-y flavor.

Ooh, little cracker.

Mm-hmm.

That's good. I really just wanted a fried shrimp today. We had fried shrimp at my birthday, but I'm gonna be so honest, I got too lost in the Remy Reeves, and I didn't eat any.

So now it's fried shrimp time today.

Oh yeah, mm.

Round two, we got half of a grilled lobster, corn, and then it's stone crab season, so we got stone crab claws, which are my favorite.

I'm very happy.

Hi guys. Okay, we're back home and I started opening up some PR and then I thought maybe you'd want to see. I opened up quite possibly the most me PR box ever. It's really exciting. Bright Land did a collab with Sumo Citrus,

which if you know me, I love Sumo oranges so, so much. I've been a fan for years and there's only a little bit more time in the season for them. So Brightland is a company that does olive oils. I love them so much. I've used them before.

I've given them as gifts before. It's a really beautiful, nice, like housewarming gift or a birthday gift for someone in your life that loves cooking, Christmas gift, whatever. So they did a collab with Sumo Citrus, which is so crazy. I don't know how citrus flavored olive oil is going to be, but this might be really good as like a finisher. I was thinking maybe like making a crudo or like on top of a toast or something could be really good. And it's a beautiful bottle. So really excited about that. And then honestly, just as exciting, they sent over two Sumo oranges! And they're beautiful.

I have one from the grocery store from earlier this week. Look at that. I'm gonna eat one of these today. They're beautiful. I love the little nipple at the top, if you will. Okay, that's the first PR box that I got.

Next up, I actually did receive that dress that I was telling you guys about didn't come in time. I think I'm most likely going to return it because I bought it specifically for my birthday, but I will say also, with all the events and things that we have going on all the time, it is nice just to have a dress on hand to just throw on for the event.

So we'll try it on, but I ordered it from, I believe it's pronounced, I think it. It also comes in chocolatey brown, which is really beautiful. And I think it comes in like nude. It's really, really cute. I have one of their corsets that I have worn before a ton.

So it's basically their corset, but made into a dress. It's kind of hard to see because it's black, but it's got this kind of like paneling, if you can either have like hang down, you can wrap it around. It's really well made. Their stuff is really stretchy and comfortable. So I will try this on. I feel like this is a good basic,

oh, Looney tripped on my,

she tripped on the little thingy. I feel like an LBD or a little black dress is always good to have in your closet. We'll try this on and we'll see how we like it. Oh my God, you guys, from the top. This kind of looks like when you go to the pet store and you like bring a hamster home. Like I thought this was like, I don't know what was inside.

Oh my God, I'm freaking out. This is my first thing ever from McKenzie Childs. They sent me PR, I'm freaking out. I'm sure you guys have seen all over TikTok, all the girls have the cute McKenzie Childs, like kettles and plates and like dishware and things. I'm freaking out, I'm so excited. Does it not look like a hamster carrier or something?

I have no idea what's inside.

Oh my God!

Oh, I'm so excited! I've always wanted to get, oh my God, wait, this is so cool. Oh, I'm freaking out. This is so exciting. Oh, they're very nice and durable. I thought they'd be a lot more fragile.

Oh my God, I'm so excited. Sorry, I feel like you guys can't even see it, but let me rearrange.

Do you guys see this?

It's so beautiful.

So this is their new Violet Czech collection. This is what I was telling you guys, with the tea kettles that are really popular and they have like sugar jars, cups, mugs, other things. Oh my gosh, okay, in this box we got these little bowls that I'm imagining like an ice cream sundae in these bowls. I don't exactly know the material.

It feels almost like ceramic, but it's a lot more durable than I thought. And it's got this like beautiful metal edge here. So this is the bowl. There's four bowls and also four of these little plates. Dessert plates, beautiful. Or I guess you could serve it together like that

if you really wanted to. I love the purple. This is so beautiful. They also sent over some napkins as well as some cards that you can like play with when you are doing a dinner or something, like question cards almost

to spark conversation. And then there's a bonbon box here. I think this is Swedish candy. How exciting. Oh my God, it is a little bag of Swedish candy. I don't think I've tried Bon Bon yet.

I've tried Little Sweet Treat, I've tried Soccer Bit, like I've tried all of them, but this one I've seen all over TikTok. That is so exciting. I cannot wait to use those. Thank you so much to McKenzie Childs. I'm super stoked about that. Okay, let's check out this candy bag.

What a cute little bag. Oh yeah, just an assortment of candy. Wow, it's so perfect for Valentine's Day.

Ooh, that's good.

Nice texture, nice sweetness.

That's good.

Okay guys, that wraps up the fun PR things that I got. And now I am lying on the couch and I'm going to rhinestone. Hello and I'm going to rhinestone. Hello I'm going to rhinestone the matcha tin and make it I think baby blue. Stay tuned