September 30, 2011

• My Birthday {Weekend}

  Of course, this is from my slightly jaded perspective, but my actual birthday (this past Monday) kind of sucked.

  I didn’t feel very good. I had a head cold or some sort of mild-ish flu, and I had to work even more hours than I normally do on a Monday.

  No one planned a surprise party for me.

  Which I secretly always hope for.

  I guess I never totally outgrew that thing of really liking my birthday and liking to be the “Special Person” for the day.

  But…lots of people left me wonderful birthday messages on Facebook, my sister stopped by, people texted me, my sister called, two good friends called…so yes, I felt very blessed by all of you in that way!

   

  Jeremy and I always go away for a weekend sometime around our birthdays. Mine is the end of September, his is the beginning of November.  We often go away sometime in October, but this year we went a little earlier because a) this was one of the weekends it suited our wonderful friends, Mike and Morgan, to keep the kids and b) we were going to be going 4-wheeling for part of the time and I would rather do that when it is still a little warmer outside.

  Friday late afternoon found me dropping the kids off with my sister (who kept them overnight and then delivered them to Morgan the next morning) and heading back home.

  We decided to save a little money and just stay at our own house on Friday night. We did go out to eat, which was really fun.

  I think this quote kind of sums up my weekend:

  

  This seems to happen to me a lot.

  Yes, I knew the weekend was fun. But there were a couples of “downers”, including the fact that Jeremy didn’t feel very good. (Remember afore-mentioned head-cold..well, I think I caught it from him)

  But, when I looked through the pictures and talked about it later, I realized that the weekend was FULL of wonderful times and great moments…which turn into great memories.

  Here are the pictures:

  

  Driving (We stopped at a “Fall Festival” in a little town near us on the way to our destination. It was so fun and cozy and fall-ish.)

  

  The Rig.

  

  Getting ready to hit the trails.

  

  I know. I know. I look super classy. You don’t have to mention it.  Really!

  

  This was after we had written for a while and found ourselves right back where we had started. Time to consult the map, people.  (We had a good laugh about that one!)

  

   

  I stopped to take a picture of this tree. It was SO pretty.  (“Photo op” – I told Jeremy.  He just kind of sighed, but he waited for me.)

  

  Some guys on dirt bikes who went past us while I was photographing the tree.

  

  View from our hotel room window.  Lake Superior at sunset.  SO beautiful!

  

  Just a bad picture of me. Before going out to dinner on Saturday evening. (Don’t pretend that you didn’t notice my prominent double chin. I totally saw you staring at it!)

  

  We went on a walk down by the lakeshore on Sunday morning. It was a gorgeous day. Sunshiny and just awesome.  We held hands and walked and talked. Then we sat on a bench and talked some more.

  

  And tried to take a picture of ourselves.

  This is the best one.

  Just trust me.

  

  The one where you can’t see much of Jeremy.

  

  And then we took some kissing pictures of ourselves.

  This is also the best one of those.

  Like I said…Trust me.

  

  We went to this little hole-in-the-wall cafe for lunch.  I thought it was cute. Jeremy thought it lacked excellence.

  Yes, he actually said those words.

  Their French silk pie was quite tasty…that’s all I’m sayin’.

   

  And then we came back home.

  And our kids were having so much fun they barely noticed we were back.

  That’s how you know you left them with the right friends!

   

  

  The End.

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