When I was a kid there was a tv show called “Thirty Something”.  Thirty something sounded really old to me then.  Sunday was my birthday and it’s really weird to be nearing the end of those thirty something years.  I still have a few years yet before they put up black balloons on my birthday, but for those who don’t know how old I am, let’s just say I’m at the farther end of thirty, ok?  And as I told my mom, yes, I’m old, but that just makes her even older!   

It was a good birthday. On Friday Rock took me to my annual free dinner at Tucanos.  They really should advertise as the only restaurant where you truly save money because you are so full when you’re done, you don’t need to eat for a week!  After dinner we went to a movie.  We had planned to see the new Jack Ryan movie, Shadow Recruit, which I admit I was apprehensive about seeing.  I’m a big wimp when it comes to rock em up, shoot em up, everyone dies but the main character kind of movies.  But who am I to resist Chris Pine, so I agreed to go.  Well, we walked into the theater, Rock bought the tickets at the automated booth, and we went in and sat down.  I am also a big wimp when it comes to rock em up, shoot em up, how crude can you be trailers, so I was bracing myself for the onslaught when instead of the usual PG13 trailers, they showed Disney trailers.  It took me a minute to realize this was odd in such a movie as we were about to see, but it was not until Mickey Mouse showed up on the screen that I knew I was not in the new Chris Pine movie.  We were in Frozen!  Once I got over my brief (very brief) loss, I laughed out loud and turned to Rock who said, “Surprise!”  You have to understand, the first time Rock took me out for my birthday he took me to dinner and a movie I had no desire to see.  He says he was just trying to avoid that mistake again.  Thus the movie switch.  By the way,  Rock is looking for someone he can re-watch that movie with.  Anyone want to see Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon with him this weekend?  I’ll be doing other things. 

My favorite part of Frozen, besides listening to Idina Menzel sing anything,  is where they pronounce ‘Weselton’ as ‘Weaselton’ and the silly little duke has to correct them over and over.  Oh, that was funny.  I was the only one laughing in the theater, but I so felt his pain. 

The morning of my birthday my children let me sleep in instead of waking up at 6:00 in the morning to “surprise” me with breakfast in bed.  This of course never works because it just becomes a big fight downstairs that I either have to deal with myself, thereby ruining the surprise, or Rock has to deal with it but I am awakened by the raucous just enough, that I can’t go back to sleep.  Sleeping in was awesome!!

About 10:00 AM this nice looking French waiter dressed in his jammies come into my room.

He handed me this menu:
and then said in a fabulous French/German/Italian accent, “Velcome to thee Hymas Keeds Café.  Please-a’ choose from z menu vut you vould like to have for-a’ breakfast.”

My food was prepared by the head chef, Reagan Dean

and when it was ready, a little assistant waiter named Levi came up to tell me my food was ready.  It was very yummy. 

Rock stood outside in below freezing temperatures to grill me some steak for dinner and it was also very yummy.  For dessert I wanted “Better Than Sex Chocolate Cake”.  Reagan really wanted to make it- until he found out what the name of the cake was.  He then begged me (in between gagging sounds) to call it something different and since I love that cake and all my kids will be going through this “sex is gross stage”, we decided to rename it. I suggested we call it “The cake which shall not be named” or maybe “The Voldemort cake”, but we settled on “Chocolate Toffee Cake”  It was delish! 

To finish off a wonderful birthday I went to bed on my new heated mattress pad with dual controls.  Life is good-even when you’re old.

Liberty spends a LOT of her time prancing about the house singing and dancing.  Even walking to the breakfast table is done in true ballerina form.  I caught this video of her recently.

We signed Reagan up for skiing lessons with a homeschool group in the area that offered a steal of a deal; $75.00 for three two hour lessons + all day ski rentals and skiing each of those days.  Even better is that Rock got to be a chaperone for two of those weeks for FREE.  We prepped Reagan very well ahead of time for the difficulty he might encounter at this new sport.  He is usually a perfectionist and has little patience with himself when trying something new.  It was with baited breath that Rock dropped him off last week for his first lesson.  But he was a raging success!  He figured it out very quickly and had a blast.  Here he is shooting down the slopes.

I know who is going to watch the skiing events at the Olympics this year in a whole new light.