Birthday Adventure

My sister and her family live in Charlotte. Her youngest son, Josh, almost shares a birthday with me. His birthday is Dec. 5 and mine is Dec. 6. He is one day older than me. So, yesterday, we celebrated his birthday at Chuckie Cheesee (as mom calls it). ^-^

If you have never been to C.C., it is an experience. I am going to leave it at that.

So after walking into the overstimulating, ADHD world, you find your child's table. You look up and see this...

Animatronic creatures that blink and "play" instruments. Yeah, it kind of creeps me out, too.

Then I see Josh, and he is ready to play games!

This is a picture of my other nephew, Stephen. He turned 9 last October. I still can't believe how big he is getting.

Stephen is also quite the athlete. He plays baseball, basketball, and golf. Just look at that form!

Josh loves playing games. His friend, Jake, and him played this one for awhile. This was a good game for them because it keeps going when you run into walls (which happened a lot). :P

After some coercing, Josh decided to blow out his candles.

Josh received a Nintendo DS and a few games. Here, he is contemplating how much time he will spend playing these games.

I stayed a litte longer, and Mom and dad gave me my birthday gifts. I got a nice watch and a Fossil belt. Our new tradition for birthdays and Christmas gifts is to go shopping together, and we pick out presents and go ahead and buy them. It's really fun! Then we open our presents and act all surprised... "How did you know?????"

Stephen drew a card for me and sis gave me my "giftcard". ^_^ (Her birthday was last week, and I gave her one, too.)

Then it was time to go back up the mountain. Matthew and I went to a friend's housewarming party for a bit. It was a great time, especially when our friend, Rhonda showed up. She is on leave taking care of her new little girl, Kenly. (See Nothing But Real Life blog, very cute).

After a little socializing, Matthew took me out for Thai food! I can't believe how Hendersonville has moved up in the world by getting 2 Thai restaurants! Now, if we could get a good Indian restaurant...

Anyway... we ate some yummy Thai food. I ordered Duck Pineapple Curry, and Matt ordered Pepper Steak marinated in papaya. I ordered spicy on a level just above mildest... oh man! We commenced to trading plates, traded back, and then one last time. I thought the flavor of both dishes was great! The duck was "crispy" (which I loved), but Matt thought it was burnt.

We came home, I stayed up and felt very fortunate to have received a birthday wish for almost every year of my life!

Overall, I had a good birthday. I am continuing my celebrations by going to the movies with my friend, Kelly. We are going to see "Twilight"! Yay!

My orchestra's Winter Concert is a week from Tuesday. After our concert, we have 3 days of "fun" stuff, and then Christmas break for TWO WEEKS! I am looking forward to it.

Well... I'm off to pick out some lights for the house! I hope my readers have a great day!

60 Days?

House update:
Matthew met with a guy who is going to finish the rest of the drywall! WOO HOO! I don't recommend doing your own drywall, but at least I have had the experience.

We are going to give ourselves a goal of 60 days to get our final inspection. The wasy time is flying by... that will be here before we know it! We still have a lot left.

Finish drywall & prime
Kitchen cabinets & countertops
Gutters
Bathroom vanities
Finish the plumbing (toilets, faucets)
Flooring
Finish HVAC
Finish electrical
And more that I can't think of right now...

I will, of course, keep you updated!

I'll Love Nobody But You

This was a note on Facebook and writing a new note was not working. So, I decided to post it here, because I thought some of the answers were kind of funny. :)

1. Put your playlist on shuffle.
2. For each question, press Next to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down, no matter how ridiculous it sounds.
4. Tag 10 people you think would get a good laugh out of this!


• If someone says, “Is this okay?” you say? •
Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

• What would best describe your personality? •
Funkytown

• What do you like in a girl? •
Y Tu Que Has Hecho?

• What is your life’s purpose? •
Don't Go Away

• What is your motto? •
Under My Voodoo

• What do your friends think of you? •
Friend of the Devil

• What do you think about very often? •
Candela

• What do you think of your best friend? •
Charlie

• What is your life story? •
Buffalo Soldier

• What do you want to be when you grow up? •
This Old House

What do your parents think of you? •
At Sundown

• What will you dance to at your wedding? •
Scotch & Chocolate

• What will they play at your funeral? •
Something Like That

• What is your hobby/interest? •
Take Me In A Lifeboat

• What is your biggest secret? •
Crazy Jo

• What do you think of your friends? •
I Don't Know

• What’s the worst thing that could happen? •
You'll Be Rewarded Over There

• How will you die? •
Transport Is Arranged

• What is the one thing you regret? •
Crazy Little Life

• What makes you laugh? •
Preachin', Prayin', Singin'

• What makes you cry? •
In un coupe?

• Will you ever get married? •
I'll Just Take It Out in Love

• What scares you the most? •
Warlocks

• Does anyone like you? •
If

• If you could go back in time, what would you change? •
Could You Lie

• What hurts right now? •
Out of the Woods

• What do you say in the morning when you first wake up? •
Throw It All Away

• What will you name this? •
I'll Love Nobody But You

Third time!

This time it was cold enough to stay on the ground... for a few hours. It, again, kept flurrying all day while I was at school.

This is the third time it has snowed here in Hendersonville, and it's not even Thanksgiving yet! You must understand that this is very exciting. In Hendersonville, we usually hear "Snow in the higher elevations," or "Snow along the NC/TN border." So for snow to actually fall in our area is cause for excitement.

I will add that another reason I love Hendersonville. When it does snow... it doesn't stay for days and days. It can just flurry and look pretty for the day. On that note... we are due for a good snow. I, mean, a BLIZZARD!

Anyhoo... I just thought I'd share the joy (again) because each time I create a post about snow... IT SNOWS AGAIN! I'll just say that the forcast for Monday night may be looking good. :) It would be a shame to only have one day of work next week.

For Jenny

OK. It snowed... AGAIN yesterday, so I got out the camera, just for you, Jenny. :)

The flakes just flew around all day. So, you can't really see it... but it did snow. Really... I promise I don't need to clean my camera lense.

Here is some "accumulation" on my truck window.

Can you see the giant flake in the middle of the picture?

Ha ha! That was fun. I'm hoping that we will have snow for Christmas! I'm probalby jinxing it, but a girl can dream.

And then there was one~

WARNING: This is a sad note.

A couple of weeks ago, one of our chickens, Gladys, went missing. She was good a flying and was being picked on, so we thought maybe she "flew the coop", so to speak.

Last weekend, I go out to check on them, and I only see one walking around. Upon further inspection, I found one... not walking (I won't go into details). Matthew found the other one later.

For once, I did not cry. We actually started with 6 chickens four years ago. We had two die within a month, and I cried. I guess I have had a lot of animals pass through here in the last few years. Please don't misunderstand me. I am quite sad. Especially about Camilla. It was time to get somemore chickens since they had stopped laying, but still not a pleasant way to go.

No comparison~

You decide. I think mine is better looking ;)