Today marks the 4th year of my second attempt at understanding my husband. My first attempt lasted approximately 7 years, then they came and took me away (ha ha hee hee ho ho)! All in all, I’ve loved the big doofus since I met him back in 1989. That’d be 16 years for those of you without a calculator handy! I think about 2 weeks into dating I scared the goobers out of him when I said “I’ve got a feeling I’ll be spending the rest of my life with you”.

He should have bolted then, when he had the chance.

Oh. Wait. Yeah, he did try to do that. Muaahaaaaahahaaa!

Anyhoo, Happy Anniversary to my dear old aging bifocal wearing gray overtaking the hairs left on his head husband, who just gets better and better with age. Because if you can tolerate me for this long, you’ve gotta be good/special/brilliant/insane.

Today is my lil’ sister Tommi’s birthday. I’m SIX years older than she is, I think, so she is still a youngin’!

(I counted between the years on my fingers, so I could be wrong.)

C’mon, sing it with me & Elvis! “Haaaaaapy Birrrthday toooo youuuuuuuu, Haaaapy Birrrrrrrrrrrrthday TOOOOOO youuuuuu, Haaaaaaaaaaaaaapy BIRTHday dear Tooommmmiiiiiii, HAAAAAPY Birrrrrthday TOOOOOO youuuuuuuuu!”

Good job, Elvis. Here’s your sign.

My good friend Elvis (I’ve painted him twice now) and I would love for you to join us in extending Happy Birthday wishes to Miss Erikie Parikie, aka Erika Nelson, that fantabulous artist friend-o-mine whom I adore! Happy Birthday chickie! Hugs to your mom too, for putting up with you for all these years! :giggles: Love you!

I’ve seen that Phil is supposed to see his shadow, anyone hear anything different yet? Dang rat, he’s wrong you know, it’s going to be in the 50’s here this weekend!!

Today is my sister Brandi’s birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS! And there you go. (She thinks when you get old you still get presents and cards and all that fun birthday stuff. LOL! Yea! I wish!) Now watch, mom will spoil her since she’s the baby and she WILL get all that fun birthday stuff. To which I will reply with a great big POUTY FACE!! And maybe a sniffle or two for effect, too!

Sorry, I can’t help it, I’m the oldest of three girls. 😛

Yesterday was awesome. Beautiful weather, the party was wonderful, the food was great – everything was perfect!!

I hope you are all doing well and having a great weekend. Sorry I’ve not gotten in to reply to all of you, please know that Mark and I appreciate all of you that are here sharing his mini-vacation with us. Huge hugs and kisses all around!

Here are the pics of the day! (That last one is precious, Jay has been saying for weeks that she wanted to share her cake with daddy, and she fed it to him! Sweet!)

You have to click here to hear me singing Happy Birthday for Erikie, my sweetie-pah friend, who does not act her age – and God bless her for that! 😉

Happy Happy Birthday friend!
xoxo