Happy Birthday to Me :)

I love birthdays...mine or anyone else's, I just love celebrating them! WC did an amazing job surprising me tonight. The plan was that he was taking me out for a nice, simple dinner to commemorate the event. We got to the restaurant and the hostess pointed us to a table--where three of our friends were waiting! We haven't met many new people out here yet, at least not people we'd celebrate our birthdays with so I wasn't expecting a party involving others. But these were old college friends who still live in Boston and it was such a nice surprise! I hadn't seen IT in particular for about a year now; he's been too busy with work as a consultant and it was so good to finally catch up with him. I guess a few more people were supposed to show up, but they had to bail at the last minute unfortunately. Yay for my amazing (and sneaky) husband! It was a wonderful dinner at Tuscan Grill, made much more special by the addition of old friends.

My family celebrated with me last weekend because they have to go to a wedding in upstate NY this weekend. We started the afternoon off with some pumpkin carving, which was a ton of fun. Then it was present time. I got a waffle maker from my mom, which I've been wanting because we love hosting brunch and Belgian waffles are so yummmmmmy. And my sisters got me DDR (aka Dance Dance Revolution), also by request :) Heehee...I'm so bad at it right now, but I plan to practice lots and get better! I even got my mom to try it out, haha! My present to myself is sleeping in as late as I want tomorrow. With the Red Sox in the World Series I've been going to bed really late and it's definitely wearing me down. Not setting the alarm is such a luxurious indulgence....

Happy Birthday to Me! Thanks, WC and the rest of my family, for making it special!

Autumn has arrived

In the last week or two, the transition from summer to fall has been pretty obvious. It's now about 50-something degrees in the house when I wake up in the morning (40s outside), but we're holding out on turning on the heat as long as we can. It does warm up during the day to mid-60s or so, which is almost a relief from the high-80s we were having for a while. I forgot about how it's kind of fun to switch wardrobes season to season--from tanks and shorts to jeans and warm sweaters.

The leaves are just starting to change colors, though I bet it's been beautiful up north in New Hampshire and Maine for a couple of weeks now.

I can't believe it's almost time to fly out to S.F. again for the final wedding of the year. Once the November wedding is done, I think we're off the hook until next July. So far the lineup is:
1) July 2008: EH & GH - S.F.
2) August 2008: EC & TC - S.F.
3) September 2008: MH & BW - S.D.

Maybe one of these days we'll actually start traveling to places other than California again :P

Happy Anniversaries

I've been super lazy about blogging lately. Couple of big things:

(1) Happy 1-month Anniversary to S&R! I had the pleasure of being a bridesmaid in their wedding last month and WC and I spent a week and a half hanging out with the happy couple as well as other friends. I had been waiting for the hubby to upload pics to our shared drive before posting a congrats on the wedding to S&R, but seeing as that still hasn't happened I'll just wish 'em a happy anniversary, sans pic.

(2) Happy 1-Year House Anniversary to Us! September 14, 2007 marked our first year of being in this house. Still loving it....

I managed to overcome the mom guilt trip and decided not to go to a distant relative's wedding later this month. I'm not close to my cousin's dad's kid (told you it was a distant relative), I'm a little wedding'd out (still have one more to go in S.F. in November), plus the wedding is on my birthday weekend. Who wants to be in upstate New York on her birthday?!

How many weddings is that this year that we were invited to?
(1) LB & RC - S.F.
(2) SC & RL - S.F.
(3) RS & LG - S.F.
(4) PY & CC - S.F.
(5) MY & MK - Victoria, Canada
(6) HT & IK - Bali (wish we could've gone to that one!)
(7) LL & LB - NY

We only attended three of the seven above (well, two so far plus the one in Nov.), but it still feels like a lot because of all the travel required. And we've already got 3 lined up in California next year--it's fun, but let's hope it slows down soon!