Birthday Festivities

I’m pretty far behind on blogging, and I don’t really have a good excuse – I’ve just been lazy :) And I    feel a little odd writing about my own bday, but in the interest of getting it documented, here goes.

To celebrate my birthday, Nate enlisted his brother and sister-in-law as babysitters and took me out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory on Friday night. This fun dress was one of my bday presents from Nate – which I picked out a couple months ago. I (well, “he” I guess) got a smokin’ deal on it at a damaged-dresses sale. Since it was my birthday dress, he decided I should wear it to dinner. I felt slightly self-conscious about being dressed up when some kids came in obviously on their way to homecoming, but then I got a couple of compliments (one from a complete stranger at the mall) and decided to just have fun being dressed up. My accomplishment for the day was making the accompanying sash (which the “damaged” dress didn’t come with) out of scraps of fabric, while 1) sitting in the car at Sugarhouse park that afternoon, 2) sitting in the car feeding Bennett, and 3) driving over to drop Bennett off with Nate’s brother. It’s definitely not high-quality, but I was just glad I pulled it off.

On Sunday, Nate’s meetings started later than usual so he made me a yummy breakfast, then after church he was able to get out of some of his meetings and come home early. We went up to his parents’ house for dinner and the annual trip to the pumpkin patch in their garden to pick out our pumpkins. We had a delicious dinner and cake, and spent the rest of the evening relaxing.

Several of my former roommates also have October birthdays, and 3 of us who are within 5 days of each other currently live in Utah, so we got together to celebrate a couple days before. It was fun to catch up with them. Here are a couple pictures of the combined birthday dinner.

I also got together with Laura on her actual birthday to help her celebrate. We found a free pumpkin patch to go to and I have to admit my first thought when I pulled in was “this is not what I pictured”. I think I had seen too many pictures of people’s visits to more exciting pumpkin patches with hay rides and pony rides and animals, etc. This one was pretty much just a pumpkin patch, which actually worked great for us because Bennett and Grace wouldn’t have appreciated any of the fancy stuff anyway. There were plenty of places to pose them for pictures :)

 

(in case you’re wondering what kind of strange jacket I’m wearing, it’s actually the Baby Bjorn. I should have just taken it off)