Celebrating Birthdays

For some January is a blah month of cold weather and let down from Christmas. Not here...Half way through January the celebrating returns as Jeff and I celebrate birthdays one day apart (me on 1/16 and him on 1/17 - we are 2 years apart though). This year the kids gave me a gift certificate to Yogurt Mountain and sweet cards. So on that cold Jan night, we were out getting yogurt at Claire's insistence that we celebrate Mommy! On Friday, we sent the kids to school and Jeff and I went out to lunch together to celebrate on his day. Grandmommy and Grandad came in for the weekend to continue to celebrate with us by enjoying the kids and us and keeping the kids on Sat night so we could go out to a nice dinner and to see Bill Cosby perform at the BJCC. He was hilarious with good clean fun! He's 76 and has not lost his touch! He could talk for hours I think. So it was fun to celebrate this year as we teeter the decade of 40 where Jeff hangs on to 39 for dear life and I tipped into the decade at 41. Thankful to all who made it fun - cards, calls texts, emails and for my girls for a fun dinner out too! It's always fun to celebrate at my office since 3 of us share the same day - and we welcomed Russ to 4-0 with lots of great kid pictures posted around the dept and desk decorated! What a great way to start 2014!

2014 Jan Bdays - slideshow