I celebrated a birthday this month and thankfully it passed by quietly. But Kim celebrated a very special birthday and thankfully it didn't pass by quietly. She said more than once to me that this was the best birthday ever. The weekend before her birthday Kathy planned a "surprise" party for her. Kim of course suspected but she didn't know exactly when. So just in case, whenever we were going out anywhere she made sure she was wearing something nice and had her makeup right. The theme of the party was that everyone had to bring "60" of something. It was hilarious to see everything from 60 twinkies to 60 kisses.
On the morning of her birthday she went outside to find baloons, streamers, signs and much more lining the front of the house and the inside and outside of her car. And this accomplished under cover of darkness b
y her good friends, Diane and Michelle. What a wonderful way to see my wife start her special day. After we cleaned up her car enough for her to drive safely she went to work. I left work a little early because as usual i hadn't yet purchased a BD card for her. Fortunately i was able to find just the right one. the problem was the present i got for her. I had looked into and planned to get her a parasailing trip. Of course i was waiting till her BD to give it to her. Remember the party the Saturday beforew her BD? Well guess what one of her gifts was from our neice. Need i say more.Well i guess if she likes it, now she will be able to go again. Maybe i will have the guts to go with her. I know she would like that, but i don't do heights very well. Fortunately i also had another gift for her. This is the one that was taking a lot of my extra time this past month which is why i couldn't blog or do other things that needed doing. After i saw Kim's reaction to this gift i was so glad that i did invest that time. I gave her a five page story of her life from birth to this BD. Notice that i have not once mentioned her age, but remember the party theme. At least this was a gift that no one else could give her because it was from my heart.
I still have one more gift for her; i made reservations for dinner tonight and have not told her where we are going. I hope it will be special and i will have to report on how it worked out on my next blog. I am so happy to have this wonderful, young looking, caring woman for my wife. It is hard to know what to get or do for her but i hope to always be able to show her how much she really means to me and how much i really love her. Happy Birthday Baby!
The only other thing that is happening is that we are getting a new pool liner installed. The old liner is a little over eight years old and has started tearing along the top. I have been patching as best i can since last year but we decided to bite the bullet and see if we could afford to get it relined. Last week after getting some price quotes we signed the contract, picked out the new liner and this week drained the pool. It is now just a GREAT BIG vinyl covered hole in the ground. We told them that the one criteria to starting the job was that it has to be completed the first week of June. They assured us that it would. We are hosting a sweet sixteen party at our house for our lovely soon to be sixteen year old grandaughter. In addition to that Michele and our three grandchildren from Delaware will be coming down for a visit in June.
We are looking forward to a whole bunch of summer fun coming up. I tried getting the bulk of the yard work done so all i have to do during the summer is try to enjoy it. Of course we never know what life will bring but that is the plan. Hopefully i will update a lot sooner next time.
