I wanted to give a big heartfelt {Thank you} to all of you who called, text'd me, Pm'd me, e-mailed me, Im'd me, made a tag or card for my birthday, left a comment or just thought of me this weekend. You all made my day so much brighter!! I am very behind in the blogs and 2P & SJ Galleries from being out of town all weekend, but I look forward to little surprises like the ones I have already seen by Susan and Sarah. I especially LOVE the presentation of this gorgeous tag made by Yolanda (one of CK's 2006 Fresh Faces). You girls are awesome!
We never really celebrated my birthday on Saturday since we had so many other family obligations, but E did take me to the Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place during the afternoon. This place is ginormous! The auto show was pretty cool! We walked around for several hours and saw a ton of cars.I would love to drive (or at least take a ride) in one of these Ferrari's
Or this new Little Red Corvette! Vroom vroom!
Saturday night the whole family (20 of us in all) went out for a dinner at Lo Garden (Chinese). After dinner we all went back to E's uncle's house where we had our own little Texas Hold "Em tourney. Would you believe that we only had one game because it lasted almost 2 1/2 hours...and the pot was only $30??!! I almost took it all....it went down to the wire, just me and E's other Uncle, both all-in.....his 3 of a kind beat my 2 pair. Effin A! But it sure was the most exciting $5 buy-in I ever played!
And now we are back in St Paul, safe & sound...it was a nice, dry daytime drive...quite the opposite from our drive in to Chicago last week. That trip was very snowy, slippery, dark and scary as hell. Today E took me to my favorite restaurant and then to the bookstore so I could pick out some books for myself as a birthday gift. I got:
* Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maquire
*How to Sleep with a Movie Star by Kristin Harmel
*Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult (I also want to read My Sister's Keeper)
*The Eight by Katherine Neville
*Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
*100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories
**The Effects of Light by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Now I plan to do a little scrappin' tonight as a belated birthday treat to myself :)
Sayonara!
im so glad you had a good birthday!
i suck and i swear i will be making you a birthday tag when i get back to NC. i forgot in the midst of packing & stuff. but its coming. i promise ;)
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Posted by: April | February 13, 2006 at 09:26 PM
Glad you had a good weekend!! Maybe you should ask your honey for the Ferrari for your b-day!! ;) Those cars are absolutely gorgeous!! Happy reading and scrapping!! Let me know about those books, any ones you recommend!!
Posted by: Valerie | February 13, 2006 at 10:01 PM
So glad to hear you had a nice weekend. Those pictures look amazing! Happy belated birthday! My tag is finally on its way (but you can see it in my blog today) and HAPPY V-DAY today!!! I'm sure you'll have plenty of goodies from all your kids at school! I've been up since 4 a.m. finishing decorating and wrapping presents for dd's teachers!!!
Posted by: Maria | February 14, 2006 at 07:32 AM
So glad you had a nice birthday!
bummer about the texas hold em game - so close!
yay for new books...i've been wanting to read "prep"!
Posted by: sarah | February 14, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Good book list! I have a few of those on my list to buy.
Just a warning - if you get My Sister's Keeper be prepared with a huge box of tissues! I ended up listening to the unabridged AudioBook and had to pull off the side of the highway I was sobbing so hard!
Posted by: Jen | February 14, 2006 at 01:05 PM
SO Happy your Birthday was fabulous!!! I'll be sending my tag off to you this week :)
Posted by: Alexandra Wieckowski | February 14, 2006 at 10:37 PM