My family took such great care of me this year. They spoiled me to pieces. Carter, Ty and Ali brought me breakfast in bed. Carter made the other kids wait until 7 to wake me up for it. Thanks Carter! I ate a delicious bagel with cream cheese, granola and three coconut cookies. I had lunch with my sisters at Chipotle, love that place. Then for dinner we ate at the pizza Factory. Everyone enjoyed those delicious breadsticks. We reminisced about birthdays past where we took the kids out and enjoyed a disaster of a meal, (Cheesecake Factory) terrible birthday dinner about six years ago....nice the kids are bigger now. For dessert Byron actually baked a cake. Get off the ground I know you all just fell off your computer chairs after reading that. It impressed me but what is more is that it was in the shape of a couch!!! There is all of us (cardboard cutouts courtesy of Carter-even the dogs were included) sitting on our new couch I get to go pick out for my birthday present. If Byron had any idea how much a new couch was going to put him out he may have just gotten me a pair of diamond earrings or something cheap. :-) After much shopping, I am sure I saw every leather sectional in the entire great salt lake valley we have chosen a beautiful brown one that will be delivered in four more weeks, so right near our Anniversary. We are going to let it count for both occasions since we went a little overboard. It actually looks a lot like the cake only doesn't taste as good.
The kids were so sweet they all picked out something they thought I would like though Ali did tell me that Byron was a little "difficult" while shopping because he kept redirecting her to less Ali like things and more Mom-like items. They ended up on a pair of cute starfish earrings that I really love. Carter did a movie night package with a muppets movie, Junior mints, my favorite candy and popcorn flavor for us to try. Tyler got me some seed packs and a seed starter kit. Totally hit the nail on the head there as I am dying for spring to set in for good here. So this is what it's like to have big kids who actually get you awesome stuff. I like it!!! I think I could get used to the idea.
Who knew the sixth grade science fair was going to be so much work? We tried really hard to get a potato to light a LED light bulb but alas we couldn't make it work. I do believe it is possible we saw the guys on the internet make it work. We could get lots of volts but not enough amps. Pesky little amps. Carter had a blast working on this though so I consider it a huge and enormous success. Plus we used up the last of our potato supply so that was a good win...we won't have old potatoes sprouting in the box this spring.
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