This weekend, we celebrated my 44th birthday. Wow - I actually had to remeber what year I was born and calculate my age to make sure I wasn't mistaken when I realized I was turning 44. We had a great weekend filled with a lot of fun and cool activities. And, I was surrounded by my three favorite men, dear friends, and two favorite Vizslas.
Friday night, we watched the original Fantasia for "family movie night" from the 1940s. Interesting little movie. When Heath first put it on, I rolled my eyes and thought the kids will never sit through this. For folks who haven't seen this, it basically starts out with an orchestra and the conductor claims this is a movie. As the movie progresses, it gets a lot more interesting because they play the Nutcracker (one of my favorites) and the visuals get more creative including an appearance by Micky Mouse. Though, I am convinced this movie was created with taking LSD or some other mind altering drug in mind. By the time the intermission ocurred, it was 9pm and time for the boys to go night, night. We announced that we were turning the movie off and Tas cried and threw a tantrum. I must admit, I was sorry to have to turn it off too. We all had gotten really into it. To be continued...
On Saturday, we started the day with the 40 years of Sesame Street DVD, which I ordered for the boys. Kermie came on and sang "It's Not East Being Green" to which I started hysterically crying. I couldn't help being overwhelmed with emotion over the show that was a major part pf my childhood. I cooked pancakes, then headed out for a birthday yoga class - ahhhh!
When I returned from yoga (yogurt per Tas and Chance) and a green tea at the local coffee house, we packed up our family belongings and did what people did 100 years ago. We traveled to our dear friends John and DeDe in downtown Raleigh and slept over! On the way, we stopped at our dear friends Mark and Sherri's house to a quick New Year's visit. Then, for a family dinner at Cantina 18 in Cameron Village accompanied by very special wine from our friend Pat. We had plans to do a casino/murder mystery at the Raleigh Little Theater to celebrate my birthday and their 75th Anniversary while Joanne watched all the kids at John and DeDe's house. The RLT event was wonderful as we were transitioned to a 1930's casino where Heath and I played craps all night while getting clues for an impending murder. After the event, we ate shameful amounts of delicious chocolate birthday cake at John and DeDe's while enjoying Trader Joes port. The best gift of all was that Chance was at 150 when we got home and the boys slept through the night. They LOVED the sleepover! Thanks Heath, John and DeDe for a memorable birthday!
In the morning, we ate yummy pancakes and bacon prepared by Chef John and caught up some more while the boys enjoyed all the new artifacts at their home and time with baby Atticus. We went home, cared for the pooches, then headed to the NC Science Museum in Raleigh. This was really an eye opener for how much the boys have matured. No stroller, they followed directions, held our hands and thought all the bugs, snakes, dinasours, birds, etc. we SO cool! I decided that the museum should reexhibit to exhibit. After the museum, we popped over to the Museum of Natural History for a Bluegrass show. We only caught 30 mins, but it was very good and the boys loved this too!
On the way home, the boys crashed hard and are still alseep. We have decided to keep them that way and enjoy an evening to ourselves. We have a mushroom and sausage pizza on the way. In the iterim, I took the pooches for a walk before we are covered in snow and ice tomorrow and am enjoying some downtime. Thank goodness, my Mom got me that 3/4 down jacket last winter.
Happy day, happy weekend!
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