my birthday weekend

Friday - swimming

I sat on the side and let Dan do the work, ahem, "playing" with our darling girls.  It was kind of chilly, but they don't seem to mind.  I love the picture of Tessa grinning at her Dad, they love each other.  No doubt that Sophie is Daddy's girl either, I kept telling him this day would come!  Now he's the favorite, well, unless there is an injury.

Saturday after Dan helped me scrub the bath tubs we went out to lunch at the Olive Garden.  It was so very yummy and we got to use a gift card from my grandma, what a sweetie!  I have to say, this woman has over 50 grandchildren (and nearly that many great-grandchildren) but still remembers to send cards and make phone calls, she's amazing.  I wish I had a quarter of her memory NOW let alone when I am her age!  And we got to go to lunch KID-LESS thanks to our good friend Kim who came over and watched the girls for us.  It is so nice to get a chance to really talk.  That night we got to go watch the BYU game at the Lawrences, so excited they won!!

My actual birthday was Sunday.  I feel silly that I didn't get any pictures of me... sorry.  It's hard when you're always the picture taker.  I enjoyed a beautiful day at church filled with uplifting lessons.  Dan made me breakfast, lunch and dinner.  He would tell me to "get out of MY kitchen," if I tried to help with anything.  We had a few friends over for dinner and Kim made me some birthday cup cakes, THANKS KIM!  I also got lots of phone calls and emails, which I really appreciate!  Plus gifts in the mail from both of my moms.  I'm blessed to have so many good friends and family.

My birthday present from Dan was the new version of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements (for video).  He ordered it online all by himself!  I think this is the frist year he didn't tell me to just go shopping for my gift.  I am so excited about my new Photoshop, because now I can shoot in RAW and have so many more options for making my pictures look good even if I don't shoot them perfect!  I shot in RAW at the zoo the next day to try it out, I LOVE IT!!  I haven't tried the video thing yet but will ASAP.

Monday - zoo

That drum is probably her favorite part of the zoo, we have to tear her away.  Sophie looks a little loopy in the picture with Kim, and about 5 minutes later she was passed out on top of Kim's head.  Who would have thought you could sleep on someone's shoulders?  That didn't stop Kim from nabbing a picture of the cheetah though.  Tessa seems to mostly just endure the zoo these days probably due to the fact she always seems to be missing a nap. She is interested in very little outside of her snacks. The zoo always wears my girls out. 

Last night we went to a potluck at the park with a bunch of friends.  We left in a rush and I forgot my camera darn it!  It was really fun for about an hour until Sophie had an messy accident (2nd of the day) and we had to go.  I brought her a change of clothes for the #1 type, but this had to be dealt with at home.  She was so sad to go (so was I) but hopefully she will learn from the experience. :)  At least she was accident free on my birthday!