Celebrations

My Regular Readers know that ESM is my Evil StepMother who is in NO way evil.  She is the most loving step mother and grandmother a person could have.  She named herself ESM as a joke.  But it stuck.

This past weekend was her b-day and I got together with them to celebrate.

At dinner

Jaxon and I stopped over the house and he gave her lots of kisses which she loves.  Then we piled in the car for dinner.  We went someplace new and it was yummy for me and ESM.  Daddy wasn't thrilled with his meal but the wonderful waitress took his dinner off the bill.  Lots of giggling and sharing of stories made for a wonderful dinner get together.

Wheel chair buddies

Happy Birthday ESM!  Love you!

Giggle Face

You have to love this face.........



Jakes on his 14th Birthday.



Especially when it looks like THIS:

GiggleFace!

He blew out the candles on his cake and showered Gpop with the confetti that was on top.

Lots of Giggles.

Birthday Celebration

My Compound family and I went to the Cheesecake Factory for my birthday dinner.  That would have been wonderful enough, just celebrating and sharing the good times together.  But Daddy had other ideas.  When his youngest sister turned 40, they messed with her a bit.  Daddy liked it so much, he got everyone in to mess with me. 

It started with this but wrapped up:



Daddy got into the spirit of things and handed each present to me in a particular order.

There are 40 presents in there.  All 40 items are silly things like rubber bands, envelopes, crackers, you get the picture.

All of the things contained 40.  So there were 40 rubber bands, 40 envelopes, and 40 crackers.  Even 40 pieces of toilet paper!  That's going in AZ's truck for a fishing emergency.

Eventually, I got to the end of the 40 presents and Daddy presented me with the final one.  It was wrapped REALLY tight with lots of tape!  Thanks, ESM.  Can you guess what it contained?  40 one dollar bills!  Woo ho!  Pay day!

Then it was time for desert.

Cheesecake of course!

Jakes asked the wait staff to sing to me and they wrote on my plate.  YUMMY!

I have to tell you, turning 40 was so much fun!



Its Been A Good Day.....

My day started with this

Have no idea who did it, but I love it!

Wish I'd gotten honked on my way to work though....

When I got to work, I found this:

The girls I work with are SO wonderful!

They even gave me a card for my 90th b-day. How sweet!

Here's a close up of the balloons....

How CUTE!!



And a ribbon to wear all day long!

We are going to celebrate with the Compound Family at the Cheesecake Factory for dinner.  YUM! 

I haven't stopped grinning all morning!