mon anniversaire

Not too exciting, but here's my birthday weekend report.

Saturday we had the Remax open house day, so we had to be out of our house from 11-2. I had a session booked at JCPenney for the boys to take pictures for Christmas and Liam's first birthday, so we hit the mall at around 10:45. They did so good... The pictures turned out pretty good, despite Liam's cracked out looking eyes. He took a massive nap that morning, but I guess he was still tired. We didn't do the whole fam pic this year, since I had to get Liam's one year pics and the two of them together. I didn't want to add whole fam pics too. I am thinking of attempting some PhotoShopping to make a funny Christmas card with our faces on it.

After that we hit McD's for lunch. Liam ate a massive happy meal. That kid is a pig. Hilarious. Then we went to the children's museum, but just briefly. Now that they have the new set up, it wasn't as fun for Aidan. Then we hit a playground for just a little while and came home. As far as we can tell, not one person showed to see our house. Oh well. That's the good thing about not HAVING to sell. We don't have to stress. The house will sell eventually I'm sure, and knowing that I won't live here forever makes me appreciate the things I normally neglect.

Yesterday was a regular morning. I had taken some medicine the night before (sinus crap) and was still tired, so when Liam napped, I napped too. Then at around 10:45, Tony dressed the kids and said he was going somewhere and that he'd stop by the store for me. He came by a while later with no kids. He had arranged for Carol to watch the boys for a few hours so we could go to lunch and relax. We went to Jorge's and then I came home and took a second, longer nap. Yeehaw. I went and got them at around five and learned that one of my radio stations has already switched to all holiday music, and the first song that was on was "Baby, It's Cold Outside." My favorite. And both boys went to bed fairly simply.

So I ended up getting a few cool gifts. Tony got me the book What I'd Say to the Aliens, and Other Veiled Threats by Jack Handey. I got some Freudian slippers from Kari and a cool outdoor gnome statue from Jenny. And I know I have at least a card coming that I haven't gotten yet.

And congrats to Kari and Michael for getting engaged!!!!