Best Birthday EVER

I'm not a birthday person. For the most part I'd be content if the world forgot that it was my birthday, minus the presents, and maybe a small piece of cake. But seriously this year was the best birthday I remember having in a really long time, probably since I was a kid and had birthday parties with clowns etc. *shudder*

Noah and I got up at the normal time yesterday, ate breakfast and whatnot, then attempted to wake up Zander, who had stayed up really late the night before. After finally getting him out of bed and into the shower, he was just moving around really slow and it was looking like he was going to be really late for work. While he was getting ready in the bathroom Noah was in there playing with him, and I ended up falling asleep on the bedroom floor for about 15 minutes. When I woke up I realized that Z was really really late for work so I tried hustling him out the door, at which point he told me he had taken the day off to spend my birthday with me! YAY!

We hung out at the house for the morning, reading books and being wonderfully lazy. After Noah woke up from his morning nap we went to a yummy lunch at Happy Sumo with my mom, then I helped her do a bit of shopping while Z took Noah on a little walk through Riverwoods. We came home so Noah could nap and we could relax for a little while. Z told me that we had plans later that night and had to leave at 6 to drop Noah off. By around 7 we had dropped Noah off and started heading to our final destination, which turned out to be an adults only family dinner at Macaroni Grill. For those of you who don't know, my immediate family has been pretty well spread out for oh roughly 10 years now. At one point we were stretched between Portland, Washington state, Utah, and Georgia. We're now in Portland, Utah, and Germany. So family functions are rare and far between. This is the first time in 2 years that we've had a function like this. Ben, Joseph, and Deneil were still absent, but this was as close as we could get, and it was great.

Thanks everyone for a FANTASTIC birthday!!!