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Birthday weekend

I had a really fantastic birthday weekend. It was really more like a four-day weekend with the snow day on Monday and all. But I digress. It kind of all started on Friday when my sister’s husband, Trainwreck, flew into town. While we were at the grocery story buying boring stuff for supper, they bought me tulips for my birthday! I carried them around the store while Trainwreck pushed the cart.

When we got home, Texas Seestor helped me get them trimmed off and in a vase and then I spent a while taking photos in the perfect afternoon light. Alas, I realized later that I’d had my camera on the wrong setting the whole time and the exposures were off.

We went for a long walk.

We noted the thawing of the ice on the lake, the geese that flew overhead and the beauty of the setting sun as it shown through the clouds.

We also played some on the jungle gym equipment.

Heeee!

The next day was highlighted by a fabulous breakfast that was late enough to tide us over through lunch. AND it was That Day that we went rollerskating! It was so much fun! No pictures of that event, because I didn’t want to take Dee-Dee in and lock her up in a locker between photo shoots. But I have a feeling that I’ll be going with Amber to adult skate night one of these times and maybe I’ll take the camera for that round.

That night we watched X-men 2 (or X2) and it was fabulous. How can you not love a good action movie like X2. Coolness, I tell you. And gotta be prepared for the 3rd one that comes out in May.

My actual birthday was perfect! I started the morning off with a photo shoot of the tulips that actually looks really really good. You’ll seee those on Friday(s).

During a phone conversation with my parents, Texas Seestor and Trainwreck decorated this level of the house with drink umbrellas.

Readers will surely recall my JOY over drink umbrellas.

Texas Seestor and I went shopping for clearance shirts AND, GET THIS, when we took it to the cash register to get it rung up, everything was an ADDITIONAL fifty percent off! I’d have thought I was on candid camera but I asked the clerk and he said that anything long-sleeved or considered “winter wear” was an additional 50% off! I got shirts for $5 and $12 that would normally have been 30 and 50. Cooooooooool, huh?

Then we had lunch and went bowling and met up with Amber, Andy, and Jonah. Amber and Andy got me a book I’ve been lusting after for a while.

As for the bowling, on my very first throw, I got a strike! If it had counted, I’d have won the game that day. But someone I know *ahem* deleted it, because he wanted to win. We *ahem* know who you are, hb. Oh wait, that was a practice frame, riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

But I know I’m a winner. And I had lots of fun. The music to bowl to was pretty good. There is a slideshow on Flickr.

And afterward, for my Birthday Supper, we all went to Outback Steakhouse! It was fabulous!

And the best part about the huge snowstorm that happened overnight was that Texas Seestor and Trainwreck got to stay for an extra day and I finally made the birthday cake!

We also played snow baseball. HB threw snowballs at us and we smacked them with the shovel. Most importantly, it gave Texas Seestor and I more time to work on our special sewing project. “Sewing project?” you ask. Ahhhh… that is a future post all by itself.

For now, suffice to say that it was a fabulous birthday 4-day weekend.