Happy Birthday to Me!

Good friends are a wonderful thing to have!  They can even make it fun to get old! Michelle made me this fabulous bracelet for my birthday, and it matches the antique Venetian glass ring that my mom gave me a few years ago.  Since Michelle couldn't be here to see how excited I was when I opened it, I thought I'd post a picture of it for her.  I also got to go to lunch with friends and family at Red Lobster and the Grecian Key.  Kassie gave me a cute pair of pajamas that are.....drum roll please.....long enough!  It is so hard to find pj's for longer legs.  I don't know why they make them so short, but I think it's discrimination! 

Another friend, who shall remain nameless, gave me a book about some great books that would change my life.  I was thumbing through it at Red Lobster after opening it and showed her an explicit chapter she hadn't noticed when she was buying it.  A few pornographic pictures later we were all laughing and she was blushing over her thoughtful gift! The funniest part was when she told us that she bought it for her 14 year old daughter, too!  Fortunately, she had given her daughter many books for Christmas, and she hadn't read that one yet! It quietly disappeared from her bookshelf (and never made it to mine)!

 

I also got a new haircut for my birthday.  I haven't had short hair in years, so I was ready for a change.  I had Becky's friend, Savhanna, cut it while I was in Boise.  I'm having lots of fun with it so far.

He's Outta Here!

 When Trevor reenlisted in the Army and was deployed to Afghanistan, we decided to send him off in style.  We made lots of red, white, and blue treats and the girls decorated the house as patriotic as they could.

 We're proud of our family hero, fighting to keep us safe!

Jane, Trevor, Megan, Nic, Casey

FHE Fortune Telling

My kids told me there is a sure-fire way to know the qualities of your future (or current) spouse, so for FHE we played Apples to Apples and added up our winning cards.  Here are the results:

 Emma thinks her husband will be the best because he is handsome and technological, but the rest of us were a little concerned that he will be spooky, haunting, and unscrupulous!

 You can tell by Maren's face that she doesn't know what to think about her future husband, who will be fuzzy, wobegone, and funky.  She was kind of impressed that he will be innocent and trustworthy, though, and she hopes that global means that they will travel the world together.

 Devin's future wife was looking a little boring until he won the flirtatious and zany cards to go with the tame, foreign goody-goody! 

 

Chris thought he was the obvious winner with his patriotic, glitzy, glorious, stunningly feminine wife, but we're a little worried about how fake, ordinary, mischievous, and disturbing she will be. 

  

  It was fun looking at the characteristics of those of us who actually have spouses.  According to the cards, Del was supposed to marry someone who is spiritual, important, glamorous, and harmful.  I just have one little problem with that summary of me!

According to the all-knowing cards, Del is unhealthy and healthy, witty and useless, and unforgettable and irresistible.  Hmmm.  Other than useless, I think it was right on!