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Thu, 16 Jul 2009

Oops, I just realized that I skipped Marc's birthday in my blog entries. We really did celebrate, and on the very afternoon after I made my last entry. Marc's birthday was on the second and we celebrated by eating the requisite lasagna.

Marc's pile-o-presents was smaller than those the kids get, but he is much harder to shop for. This one was made of mostly paper, but not the green kind. 

Marc usually tries to "read" what's inside the presents, and got one right this year (but only because I left the packing slip sitting on the table…

Then we ate ice cream. I guess I should have picked the brand of ice cream more carefully. Marc tried to be insulted, but he knows as well as I do that it is true.

Then he blew out the candles. We had to use big candles to represent ten years each. There's one little one in there somewhere.

And we all ate lots of ice cream. Happy belated birthday, Marc. 

I think I forgot to post this because we made a quick trip to Colorado afterward. We went because Marc had the third off to celebrate Independence Day. We just went for the weekend to explore the Boulder area. We enjoyed seeing the mountains together and watched fireworks from the hotel jacuzzi, but it was a long drive. 

Otherwise, we haven't done much in the month of July. Bryan started summer school so he can get another PE semester out of the way. He complains a lot about it, but it WAS his choice to go so I don't listen much to the whining.  I've had a great time quilting and doing a few other projects with the kids. I hate how fast the summer is going. Melody, Thomas and I will go to California next week, just for a week. Then it will be time to think about getting ready for the start of school.