"It's Nifty to Be Fifty!" (Quoting Susan Plessinger)

September 16, 2007 was my fiftieth birthday! My wonderful friend Tracey gave me these beautiful roses and took me to dinner to celebrate. It was so fun. I really enjoyed turning 50! It was a great time and I stretched it out as long as I could!
It's hard to believe that I am not 50 years old! Since most of my grandparents have lived to be close to 100 years old, I figure my life is only half over! One of my single friends said that now I'm on the best side of 50! I sure hope she is right!

So much happened that I'm sure I won't remember everything now so I may be updating this post later when I remember or someone reminds me of what I failed to include.

It was a joy to have Adalei come play dolls with me on my birthday. She had a great time eating kettle corn - we both love that!

Charity came to spend the weekend with me! What a wonderful surprise! I had a great time having her here. Not knowing that she was coming, I had a lot of plans for the weekend before she arrived.
Charity was such a good sport to keep up with the weekend long birthday celebration as planned! I am so blessed to have a daughter that would come to make my 50th birthday very special.

This was a picture of Misty on my birthday! Misty was so sweet to make my favorite dinner (7 layer salad and Texas sheet cake). In addition, she invited all my extended family and close friends for cake and ice cream. (Misty makes great cake!) It was a wonderful surprise! She went to a lot of work and I really appreciated it as she was just moving into her house a few days before that so was living out of boxes at her house. She put all that aside and planned a special surprise birthday party for me! Thanks Misty - you are great!




Now, when it comes to friends, I was thrilled with all my friends that called, stop by, and especially those special friends that had a surprise birthday party for me! This was a terrific 50th birthday! Mo hosted a potluck, surprise party at her house where we enjoyed delicious food, birthday cake and I was showered with fabulous gifts. I am so blessed with awesome friends. Thanks so much to Mo for doing so much to make my birthday a celebration! Even my father called to wish me happy birthday which was a surprise since I rarely hear from him.

My visiting teachers went all out for my birthday - Sheila and Sandy are the best visiting teachers I have ever had. They love me and truly care about me which is a great example of Christ-like charity. They took for me a manicure and pedicure and included Charity also. It was so relaxing and I thoroughly enjoyed being pampered! Can you tell which feet and hands are mine and which are Charity's? Don't we look great? After the spa treatment, we went to a delicious lunch followed by carrot cake and all the leftovers came home with me! It was so fun!

For my birthday, Nate washed and waxed my car while I played with Adalei! It was a rainy day and he was washing my car in the rain. I think he was surprised that I didn't want to postpone our plans when the weather turned bad. However, it worked out quite well because we planned for Misty to prepare for a surprise birthday party for Nate while he was washing my car.

Little Adalei was so cute in her rain clothes.












She had me sitting in the canoe for a bit and I took a picture of her from the other end. I'm sure she really wanted to go kayaking but she didn't get to and was a little disappointed.






Look how good my car looks! Thanks Nate for a super job washing and waxing my car! This was a perfect birthday gift for me!










Here's Adalei on her birthday tricycle. I think she enjoys pushing it more than riding it but I did capture this shot when I had a chance.








Now, for my birthday, I bought myself a ticket to "Chocolate Confessions" and invited three coworkers to join me. From middle to the right - Lee, Judy, and Cathie..... We had dinner, then watched the show and had a chocolate dessert during intermission. In the picture by me is the creator, actor, etc. of the play. She did such a great job that I invited her to be in my birthday picture with us.





This is a poster announcing the event. I even bought myself and Jenna a chocolate cookbook! Now to find the time to enjoy some of the recipes but I'll have to lose a few pounds first! I really enjoyed my birthday - about 10 pounds worth!!! But no regrets! Like my dad said, "You only turn 50 once."





Thanks to all for a perfect 50th birthday celebration! It was the best ever!