Sunday, August 26, 2007

Birthday Weekend

Thanks to everyone who emailed me well wishes for my birthday and condolenses for my grandmother's passing. I appreciated all of them.
My 30th birthday was indeed incredible, and isn't actually over yet...y'all know I have until the end of the month!!!!! Seriously, my two best girlfriends are having dinner with me on Thursday night at our favorite place, Cheesecake Factory. I am looking forward to that, as we are going out with no kids. They are the same two who met me on Friday at the local deli, with all our kids in tow (we are outnumberd 7 kids to 3 adults) and we actually had my mom there and one of the other girl's mom there...so, 7 to 5, not all bad. :) We let the kids play in the Pottery Barn kids for a little bit that day too...
My wonderfully, terrific, outstanding, godly husband made me an appointment for that evening at my salon to have my hair highlighted. Oh, it is indeed highlighted alright...looks a lot more blonde now.....ahhh...I have been wanting to do that for a while now. I will have to post pictures soon. After that, my boys took me to Macaroni Grill (my choice) and we had a wonderful dinner and dessert for my birthday! It was awesome!
Saturday was filled with wonderful memories as we honored my grandmother at a memorial service. I spoke and so did my husband and we played lots of her favorite music. My husband's family came and so we all had lunch together at Chili's...another favorite of mine. We spent the afternoon with my mom, uncle, aunt and cousin. It was extremely nice.

Full week ahead, with parent and child meetings this week...we are allowing the little boo man to go to his Nana and Papa's the week and will spend some last summer vacation time with them before school starts. We will be wrapping up birthday month too...in style.

--Karen

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Im so glad you had a great bday..Cant wait to see pictures

Unknown said...

Sounds like a lot of fun!

Aunt Angie said...

I have a prize for you at my place---(blog) Glad the birthday was great!

LeRay said...

Happy Birthday, a little late, but like you said, it's b-day month!!

Also, so sorry to hear about your grandmother. Thanks for all the pics so we could see and hear about this wonderful woman.

Mandy said...

I wanna go to the Cheesecake Factory!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (tears welling up now cuz I could go here...alone...but that just isn't the same) Okay - I exaggerate...no tears are welling up. BUT I do wanna go! We could add my kids...then it'd be 10 to 4. LOL LOL LOL
Glad your birthday was great...we did Mac Grill for mine too..sans the kids! :)
Love you!

Shelly said...

Oh man ... Cheesecake Factory! That's a wonderful way to celebrate birthday's in my book :)

Have fun! And can't wait to see some pics of the new hair do :)

Vonda said...

Happy Birthday late Karen! Oh my word, I get behind with these birthdays now days because you know who keeps me busy. :) Hope you had an awesome time. Cheesecake Factory is one of my favorites. And of course the only thing we have on base is a Chili's which I saw that you like too. But it is the only restaurant we have other than all the German food off base so we need a little more variety. :) God bless! -V