Birthday #51! (9/16/08)

Misty and Nate were so nice to invite me over for dinner on my birthday! Misty made me an Hawaiian birthday cake and it was delicious! My only regret is that I didn't get any to take home for later!

(My first birthday gift arrived early from Jason
and Ashley! They sent me a wireless router so I
can have a wireless computer! What would I ever
do without a computer engineer in the family! I
bought myself my first laptop for my birthday
gift. I'm excited to receive it this week and start
using wireless! It will be great!) I need to take a
picture of it too!

On my birthday, we ate cake, chocolate ice cream, and Japanese pancakes in that order for dinner! Misty had a meeting to go to so we had dessert while dinner was finishing. It was Misty's first time making Japanese pancakes and she did super! Just as good as Nate! I was very impressed.

Look out the window behind Nate to see the
garden doing so well. I had beans and zucchini
to eat! So good - fresh from the garden!



Look at the cute wrapping on my birthday gifts from Nate, Misty, Adalei and Brielle! A little Japanese wrapping paper to go along with dinner!

I received the following birthday gifts:
*Sunday dinner on fast Sunday every month
for 12 months. Yeah!
*A community education class on "Dream
Analysis" that I'm really excited to take on
November 13th.
* Birthday card with sweet messages that
remind me how blessed I am.

Adalei was so cute helping me open my birthday gifts! I was too slow for her. It doesn't seem that long ago that we were teaching her how to open gifts and she's learned that quite well!


My special little girls! I just love to hold them and play with them. This is a picture after dinner and right before bed!


What a wonderful birthday!
I came home from dinner on my birthday to find this awesome package on my doorstep! Charity had chocolate covered strawberries delivered! What a special treat! I hate to say that I ate them so fast that I forgot to take a picture for my blog so here's a picture from the pamphlet with the box.

When I worked at Deloitte in Sacramento, there Shari's Berries was in our building. I used to walk by it every day at lunch time but never bought any resisting the urge! (Back in those days the money was going to raise kids and now my wonderful daughter bought me some - just like a dream come true!)

My friend Sheila from PacifiCorp talked me into going with her to the beach on Saturday after my birthday! So, I called it my birthday trip. It was a beautiful day - perfect sweatshirt weather! I had a fabulous time walking on the beach, having lunch, Tillamook ice cream and then stopping at Camp 18 on the way home for a warm bowl of chili with fresh cornbread. I'm so glad I went!

We went to Cannon Beach, Oregon, so I took some pictures of Haystack Rock, the seagulls....





It was an overcast day with the clouds almost down to the ocean waves!




When the sun was setting, it was so beautiful!








Here's a picture of my dream house on the beach! Wouldn't that be wonderful to live on the beach?








A final picture before we returned home and back to reality!








My friend Katie surprised me with these beautiful yellow flowers that look super in front of my house.


These beautiful flowers were left on my porch on my birthday by Maddy. She is in my primary class and a really special girl. I was so happy to get this great gift. My flower bed looks so much better now!