Birthday Girl!

I turned another year wiser this week. I usually either look forward to or dread my birthday for several weeks ahead of time, but this birthday kind of just snuck up on me. My visiting teachers came over on my birthday eve to bring me beautiful pink potted tulips that are blooming in our kitchen right now. I know the Lord loves me because he knows that I love tulips but my visiting teachers didn't.

I also love roses and gerber daisies and Jason brought me three lovely red roses just before I started teaching my class that morning. As a result my class sang "Happy Birthday" to me. My good friend Sara was kind enough to take me out to lunch at Kneaders. I had never been there before, but highly recommend it. It was delicious!!!

That night Jason and I celebrated by going out to dinner at Mimi's Cafe and then to Color Me Mine. For those of you not familiar with Color Me Mine, it's an art studio that allows you to buy white ceramic kitchen items or decorations, and then paint and glaze them any way you want. They provide all the glazes, brushes, stickers, tools, aprons, etc. and then they fire your ceramic artwork in the kiln for you. Jason and I were there for over three hours. I decorated a square serving plate and he decorated a utensil cup. I think the most random part of our experience is that we ran into one of Jason's freshman dorm roommates, a guy from our university dance class last year, and the friend of one of my former students at Cedar Ridge who recognized me as the teacher who got her engagement ring in class.Saturday Jason and I played racquetball with a couple other guys from our ward and that night we went to the BYU v. U of U basketball game. We went sitting up in the nosebleed section, but we could still see fairly well. It was a pretty loud and exciting game and crowd was really into it. Jason's ears were ringing afterwards and I got a headache from all the noise. I'm glad BYU won in the end.

Today Jason and I were sustained as the Ward Employment Specialists. Apparently the Bishop is pretty concerned with the number of members who are either unemployed or under-employed. Hopefully we can connect them with some resources that will be helpful.

We enjoyed a delicious dinner at Jason's parents' home tonight to celebrate Jason's and my birthdays. Both sets of grandparents were there for the occasion. Jason and I did 4 truths and a lie as the honorary guests. Nobody could guess my fib, but Jason so focused on coming up with his truths that he kind of forgot about the lie part. It was kind of funny. :)

Thanks to all those who called or wished me a happy birthday! It's nice to be reminded of how many people care every one in a while.