April 11 - Forty is Fabulous!!

Jeff might not agree with me though. Today is Jeffrey's big day. His fortieth birthday and truly he is having a hard time with this one. It's making him feel old.

So. . . he decided to celebrate it in a big way. He has wanted to go to Market Street Grill for some time now. It's always been a tradition of ours to go out to eat on your birthday. AND The birthday boy/girl gets to choose the place we go for their birthday dinner.  So. . . .Jeffrey chose Market Street Grill.

It was absolutely fabulous!!

The waitress we had was funny. As she was describing the specials for the day she described one as a "carnival of flavor" and said something like, so if you want to have a little "party on your plate" choose this one. That quickly became the joke for the night.

Berneen chose the Fisherman's Platter.  It looked fabulous!  She said that everything was Fabulous!!  She was saying something like, "Oh I am definitely having a little Party on my Plate over here.  LOL

Jeffrey got the PRIME New York Strip and One King Crab Leg. They were both FABulous!!

I got the Alaskan Halibut Grilled, Tartar Sauce. It was so tender, fresh, perfectly cooked and Fabulous!!

(I am so wishing I had someone take my picture right now- drrr)

Steve got the New Zealand Orange Roughy Sauteed, Grand Marnier Marmalade - it was FABulous!!

What a great day, a great dinner, great place with fabulous food, fabulous friends and turning Forty turned out to be Fabulous!

I think he was completely satisfied with the way his day turned out. . . how bout you?

Christmas Traditions

I think it's been almost every year so far in our marriage, except for maybe the first few that we have gone to the McFarlane's for Christmas Eve and spent Christmas Day with the Quick's. This year Mom & Dad Quick got to go see Mandy for Christmas Day so they had their party on Christmas Eve. It was a lot of fun. Gma Quick was SO SO generous this year!! She had 32 presents for each of us to open!!

WOW!! They had SO MUCH FUN!! They were so excited and loved each one!

We had fun just watching them open the presents and see their faces when their stacks were placed before them. :) :) :)

It was fun to see that Gma Quick had almost as much fun giving them the gifts as they did opening them.

Jeffrey & I got present's too :) :) :) We felt very spoiled!!!

Christmas Day ended up pretty quiet. The kids had a good time finding out what they received and had a fun time playing with their new toys.

Then it was just quiet the rest of the day. I realized I should have planned some fun things out for Christmas Day, but I had nothing.

Lynda White's family does a fun sock exchange as part of her party on Christmas Day and they have often gone to see a movie or they go up to the ski resorts and go sledding. That might be something fun & for us to do in the future for our family.