Happy Birthday to ME!!!

This post is a little late, but I have rarely been known to be timely, so what did you expect??? Last weekend, we celebrated my birthday. The morning started early with Josh's 9am basketball game (which meant we had eaten, gotten dressed and were out of the house by 8am). His team won and they remain undefeated and headed to the playoffs! Woot woot!


But this is supposed to be about me. Soooooo... back to ME! The kids and I had a nice lunch at Noodles & Co. and then I took them to a birthday party (not mine... wasn't this day supposed to be about ME???). After the birthday party, Jeff got home from Minneapolis (where he had attended a wicked cool Linkin Park concert) and we opened my birthday presents. My super awesomely insightful hubby got me the Dance Central Xbox game AND the new Kinect system. The technology is a-maz-ing!!! We danced our little hearts out and had so.much.fun!!!

Eriviel arrived (while we were dancing... embarrassing!!!) and Jeff & I escaped for our date night. We took in a chick flick ~No Strings Attached with Ashton Kutcher and the fabulous Natalie Portman ~ and then dinner at Old Chicago. We both gave the movie two thumbs up! I truly think Jeff had expected the chick flick to be the perfect opportunity for a cat nap, but he was surprised by how funny it was and it kept him wide awake. Plus, Natalie Portman is some sweet eye candy.

I made the executive decision to continue my birthday celebration on Sunday since Jeff had been gone and half of Saturday was attending kid activities. When I woke up at 8:30am, I went straight down to the basement to dance. I didn't feed anyone breakfast... not even myself! It was every man, woman and child for themselves cuz I had some dancing to do! We had a family dance party and guess who won??? JEFF!!! Seriously. How did that happen? I mean, the man's got moves, don't get me wrong... but he didn't really bust them out... never really got into the groove. But, hey. It just gives us all motivation to kick his butt the next time. (I declared that there will be a monthly Dolan family dance party, so there WILL be a next time.) We also played Kinect Adventures which was really fun! Once we were all worn out and hungry, we had some lunch and then Jeff & Mattea took off for their Daddy/Daughter bowling date for Girl Scouts. When they got back, we took some quick family pictures (they couldn't say no cuz it was my "birthday") and then it was FINALLY time to go to my favorite restaurant... CRACKER BARREL!!! I love me some Cracker Barrel.


When we got home, we ate some delicious birthday cake courtesy of the Mishler family. Who knew you could send cake in the mail??? AWESOME! It was a great way to end my extended birthday celebration... eating yummy cake with my wonderful family. I'm such a LUCKY girl.