Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Birthdays weekend

For a while now since moving into our house we've been having a monthly cocktail hour, usually on the first Thursday of every month, but sometimes moving around as convenient. This month we decided to move it to the following week, and on a Friday, so that it could double as an excuse to celebrate our birthdays. Yes, in case you don't already know, Lorien and I share the same birthday. We were both born on August 12. Although a few years apart...

We got a chance to put to use some of the knowledge we gained from planning a wedding. We loved the wedding cake so much, we decided to order birthday cakes from the same bakery. They were a bit on the small side for putting 37 and 29 candles on respectively, plus I suppose one more each for good luck, so we just settled on the good luck candles. Here we are blowing out the candles. And getting ready to cut the cake with our lovely cake cutter (thanks Maureen!) and serve it on our new dishes (thanks Larry and Sheryl!).

A little bit later in the evening some friends showed up with a 6-pack of champagne. I bet you didn't even know that you could buy champagne in a six pack. I sure didn't. And good stuff, too. Thanks Todd!

And here's Dirk busy doing one of the activities he loves best, just laying around relaxing. Although he's been a bit busy too, bringing us not one, but two mice, on back to back days. Kind of an early birthday present, I suppose. We had previously heard some squeaking coming from the far corner of the backyard, but we haven't heard anything in a while. Perhaps the surviving mice took the hint, decided that the yard of one of the few cats in the neighborhood wasn't the smartest place to make their home, and moved on.

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