Happy Birthday to me

I was born on Mother's Day. I was the best Mothers Day gift my mother could ever ask for! Just kidding. No, really, Mom was probably mad that her fifth child was born on Mother's Day since my brother was born around her birthday and my other brother was born around Christmas. Anyway, that's beside the point. My point is that my birthday and Mother's day are always on the same day or just a few days from each other. Therefore, I LOVE the second week of May! It's my favorite time of year. Me being the spoiled person that I am, I made sure that Brian learned long ago that these were each special and SEPARATE occasions, not to be lumped together into one celebration. Heehee. I'm just kidding again... sort of.

I had a great weekend. My birthday fell on Thursday this year (May10th.) I was woken up at 5:30 A.M. by my entire family. Arden was still in her pajamas with bed head, but she had shoes on. Brian told me to put on some clothes. I asked him if I had to put on a bra and he said yes, so I knew that meant we were going somewhere. We drove to IHOP for breakfast. YUM! There were suppose to be balloons on the table when we got there, but the manager didn't speak very good English, so he didn't quite understand what Brian was requesting on the phone the night before. So no balloons, but we got a free OJ, though, ha! Crystal then came over and spent the day with me. She got me a Groupon gift to paint at Vino Artino. She is a Groupon queen! That evening, Brian made dinner and Sarah and Adam came over for cake. Sarah made a diet cake since I'm trying to shed my baby weight. The cake was basically red velvet cake mix and coke zero. Very good! For my gifts I got a gift card from Brian to Fleet Feet. I love Fleet Feet because they will let you try on a million running shoes and even let you run on a treadmill in them to see if you like them. I need new running shoes since I'm going to train for the 1/2 marathon in November. I also got a fancy new blow dryer and hair straightener. My blow dryer started smoking a couple days ago, so I guess that was Brian's cue to shop for one. Sarah got me a gift card to shop for new clothes, and a bunch of small goodies like a candle, bracelet, etc. I love all of my gifts!

Friday I went shopping for a couple of new dresses with my gift card and headed downtown to House of Blues with Brian, Sarah, Adam, Nik, and Crystal. I'd never been to House of Blues before. It is a restaurant downstairs and a concert venue upstairs. We had a nice dinner there and then walk down the block to Pete's Piano Bar. I love piano bars! The pianists play just about any song that you request. It's so much fun. They made me get onstage a few times since it was my birthday. The first time I had to do the Chicken Dance. The second time I danced to Let's Twist Again. It was a crazy fun night.

All in all I had a great birthday weekend. It made turning 31 not so painful.