Happy Birthday to me,Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday dear meeeeeeeeee........
Happy Birthday to me!
And Happy Birthday also to Abbie, Sarah, Char, Nick, + a handful of other people who's names I can't remember but who also share this birthday! It seems that I'm always running into folks with December 17th birthdays. What a great day to be born!
And what a great day it is in Connecticut today, where I am visiting with my in-laws. I'll have more photos to share from our camera when we get home, but for now you'll have to just imagine the incredible view from the window as I type this. There was a "nor'easter" that dumped about a half-foot of snow on the area just before we arrived and there have been two rain/snow/ice/sleet storms since. But today is beautiful...bright blue winter sky, crisp white landscape and a sheen of ice over the whole world. The trees look like glass...positively beautiful.
All I wanted for my birthday this year was to go ice skating. I haven't been in a few years now, but I SO love ice skating. I couldn't go in 2005 because I was super big pregnant. I couldn't go in 2006 because I had a teeny kid on my heels all the time. So I thought that 2007 would be the return year for me. Alas...I have been told in no uncertain terms by my mother and my husband that I should not go ice skating even this year because I'm pregnant. Even though I'm not super big pregnant, I could still fall and...yadda...yadda...yadda. (I'm so rolling my eyes...why do husbands and moms have to be so...CARING?!)
Anyway, fine. So I won't go ice skating. Again (pouting). But my dear husband did get me the best birthday present in the world to make up for it: two tickets to see the Men's Short Program of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in St. Paul in January. I can't wait to go!! Thank you, Dan!!!
I did find a way to go "ice skating" anyway this weekend, since we discovered this parking lot that was completely covered in a thin sheet of ice when we visited the ocean with Jackson (that's where the above photo was taken too). How could I help but go skating?!
14 comments:
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, sweet cousin. I hope your day was so special. I miss ice skating, too! I am glad you got to sudo-skate!
Love you,
Happy birthday, Catherine! Hope you all have a fun trip!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! I checked your blog just in case you happened to write while on vacation. Sounds like you are having fun. Simon is doing well, but misses you. :)
LOVE the "skating" photo!
happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Hippo birdy 2 ewe, Hippo birdy 2 ewe!!
Happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday! Great skating photo.
Happy birthday dear cousin! You know what this means:) less than a month until my birthday. We may have to figure out the exact middle day and celebrate both then...hope the rest of your trip was great.
Even though I have already said "Happy Birthday" I was just rereading your post and remembering that I have always appreciated (and loved your for) your unashamed love and excitment for your birthday. You are a joy.
:-)
Happy Birthday! My youngest daughter, Ashley, is also a December 17th birthday. She turned 7 yesterday. Love all of the pictures, thank you for sharing.
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