Reed's Birthday Weekend

I used to think that August birthday's were the best because school (we're talking K-12 grades) had yet to start, the weather was still great, and you could have all the fun.  Well, August birthday's are still the best but you have to take them with a grain of salt.  Every single weekend in August becomes this marathon of various events and the days you would celebrate a birthday become way too overbooked to even think of the birthday brat.  Last year was my worst birthday because of that situation (we hadn't realized how busy things could get) so Reed worked really hard to make sure that this birthday was an improvement. 

Reed had me make some plans and then on Friday evening we sat together and figured out how to make it work.  On Saturday we had a funeral in the early afternoon, a wedding mid-afternoon, and a high school reunion early evening.  After much deliberation we axed the wedding and decided to arrive late to the reunion. This made room for us to do my chosen activities. 

Chicken Twins

Early afternoon I went for a five mile run (made it through without stopping!) and then came home to find Reed warming up my Angry Birds game for me.  ;-)  He smiled and said "so Meghan, for my birthday I want to go to Sand in the City, a funeral, watch a movie, and go to a party in McCleary".  So all day long we joked that it was his birthday.  haha  Breakfast was a delicious omelet and toast.  The first egg I cracked had a double yolk!!!!  How lucky is that?

We unlocked our bicycles and headed down to the waterfront where Sand In The City was being held.  They had 13 sand sculptures and lots of tents with activities.  It's mostly geared towards kids but that seemed to make the event a little cleaner.  Our favorite sand sculpture was the Minion Bowling one.  We got to walk through a huge inflatable brain, watch bongo drummers, etc.  When it started to drizzle rain then we headed home. 

After lunch we ventured to the fire hall near my parents house.  Earlier in the week an 80 something year old woman had died and Mom rushed to put together a funeral luncheon.  In order to ease fighting between sides of the family the luncheon venue ended up being the volunteer fire department.  How neat is that?  We helped set up and then stuck around while the people ate and chatted.  We met a very nice woman who lives near us and drives the same type of car we do. 

Me and the Birthday Boy  ;-)

Even though the funeral was still going on we left at 3:10 and went straight to the theater in our church clothes.  We planned on picking up a Subway sandwich prior to the movie but the Subway in the mall only took cash.  Who carries cash?!?  So we ended up buying a huge pizza pie from the food court and snarfing down broiling hot pieces before the movie.  We only had like one minute to spare! Despicable Me 2 was the chosen movie and it was hilarious!  We liked it a lot and laughed constantly. 

From the mall we carpooled with Andrew and Maureen to the 10 Year High School Reunion of the Elma Class of 2003.  It was held in the McCleary Community Center and was one of the most awkward events I've ever been to.  I met some of the people from Reed's stories and we enjoyed chatting with a few of them. 

A grown-up girl needs a princess cake

The next day was actually my birthday and we celebrated with family.  We had dinner at my parents house and invited Reed's mom to come too.  Dinner was delicious (I even made the dinner rolls!  Thank you Rhodes rolls.  haha) and the cake was fabulous.  Mom made a double decker carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.  She decorated using princess puzzle pieces and pink sprinkles.  Best cake ever!  We finished the event by watching 17 Again. 

Reed threw me the best birthday party ever and I really appreciated his efforts to make me feel special!  Now to spend the year getting used to saying I'm 26 years old!