Birthday

I had a wonderful birthday this year. I woke up on the 16th and went to breakfast at this nice little place called Food for Thought with my Mom and sister Amber. It was delightful. We then went to Unwind (a knitting store) where my mom bought me some pre-dyed yarn to make washcloths and hats (that's as far as I've gotten with knitting). I picked out some super cute yarn and then we went home. I walked in my door and saw this...

My sweet husband had been slaving away on this end table for me. I've wanted one to go right here in my house for a long time now and just haven't gotten one. This table was a lot of hard work. He found it in all its beauty from the 60s BRIGHT ORANGE and out in one of the sheds at his parents house. He had to strip the orange paint off and fix it up all nice. Thanks to his little sister Leslie they were able to work on it together and finish it up on time. It is perfect and I love it. Christian also re-framed one of our pictures that I got him for his birthday when we were juniors in high school. The frame had broke on it and I'd been meaning to get it framed again. AND THEN he also got me a clearplay DVD player! My dream come true because I LOVE watching movies, and so many of the movies that I really want to see (like Happy-go-lucky, or Rachel Getting Married, or Slumdog Millionare) are rated R and cuss a lot and I hate watching movies like that, I just didn't grow up watching them and I don't like it when you have to wade through all the filth to get a little bit of good. So ANYWAY what this dvd player does is filters all the crap and edits it. So I'm really excited for that. We haven't gotten to use it a lot yet since we've been gone but I'm sure it will be super. And then to round it all off we left at 10:00 pm that night to go to Costa Rica! Thanks to Christian and My family and friends it was a really nice day. Christian is a real thoughtful guy and I'm super grateful for him.