Such a great night! As always.
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Friday, May 22, 2015
our annual birthday boy dinner
Thanks, Mom and Dad, for taking us to another AMAZING dinner. This time at Nick and Sam's.
Such a great night! As always.
Such a great night! As always.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Today's challenge: iFLY
Today is Jason's birthday. **HAPPY BIRTHDAY!**
I asked him last week if he'd be willing to take the day off so we could spend it together and go to iFLY as his birthday present.
He had a gift card he had never used. And I am trying new things. Seemed perfect to me.
iFLY is an indoor skydiving place. I hate heights... won't climb on a ladder... won't look down over our railing when I'm upstairs in the house.... I hold onto the railings all the way up when riding an escalator. I hate small planes. You get the idea. This idea was a major thing for me!!
We had some time to kill before our flight so we watched the instructors for a while doing their thing.
Bad idea.
Jason said the color drained from my face. I knew he was right because my fingers and toes went cold and numb. Just watching.
I almost had tears in my eyes-- I'll admit it-- and said, "Jason, I don't want to do it."
He told me I didn't have to but that I'd be perfectly safe.
We met our instructor, Andrew, who took us through the training video. He tried to crack jokes, and I laughed politely. But he took one look at me and said, "You look really nervous."
Ummm, YES!!!! What gave it away? The trembling? The ashen color of my face? The look of dread in my eyes?
Jason told him that this was a really big deal for me to be there, doing this.
We suited up and headed into the chamber where you sit on a bench and wait your turn. I said I wanted to go first. I did NOT want to watch any more people do this thing before I did it.
Andrew motioned for me to go to the door of the wind tunnel, fall in, and he'd catch me. I told him, "no". Still terrified!!
He showed me what he wanted me to do, and I made myself get off the bench. One of the hardest things I've ever done was getting off that bench and walking to the door.
But then I flew!! :)
We had two flights and the video below is of the second flight. At the end he made me stand on the cables and walk to the door instead of flying me to the door, like they usually do.
Being able to walk on the cables is difficult... As you'll see, the wind was blowing at 105 mph, and I couldn't get my bearings. I look like I messed in my pants. But I promise I didn't. :)
Watch until the end because my reaction once I'm in the hallway sums up the way I felt perfectly!!
I am SO GLAD I did it!!! I think I'm still on an adrenaline high three hours later. Might look like nothing but fun to you, but it was a majorly big breakthrough for me.
WOO HOO!!
And since it's Jason's big day, here's the birthday boy's flight. He loved it!!! He couldn't get enough.
What a day!
I asked him last week if he'd be willing to take the day off so we could spend it together and go to iFLY as his birthday present.
He had a gift card he had never used. And I am trying new things. Seemed perfect to me.
iFLY is an indoor skydiving place. I hate heights... won't climb on a ladder... won't look down over our railing when I'm upstairs in the house.... I hold onto the railings all the way up when riding an escalator. I hate small planes. You get the idea. This idea was a major thing for me!!
We had some time to kill before our flight so we watched the instructors for a while doing their thing.
Bad idea.
Jason said the color drained from my face. I knew he was right because my fingers and toes went cold and numb. Just watching.
I almost had tears in my eyes-- I'll admit it-- and said, "Jason, I don't want to do it."
He told me I didn't have to but that I'd be perfectly safe.
We met our instructor, Andrew, who took us through the training video. He tried to crack jokes, and I laughed politely. But he took one look at me and said, "You look really nervous."
Ummm, YES!!!! What gave it away? The trembling? The ashen color of my face? The look of dread in my eyes?
Jason told him that this was a really big deal for me to be there, doing this.
We suited up and headed into the chamber where you sit on a bench and wait your turn. I said I wanted to go first. I did NOT want to watch any more people do this thing before I did it.
Andrew motioned for me to go to the door of the wind tunnel, fall in, and he'd catch me. I told him, "no". Still terrified!!
He showed me what he wanted me to do, and I made myself get off the bench. One of the hardest things I've ever done was getting off that bench and walking to the door.
But then I flew!! :)
We had two flights and the video below is of the second flight. At the end he made me stand on the cables and walk to the door instead of flying me to the door, like they usually do.
Being able to walk on the cables is difficult... As you'll see, the wind was blowing at 105 mph, and I couldn't get my bearings. I look like I messed in my pants. But I promise I didn't. :)
Watch until the end because my reaction once I'm in the hallway sums up the way I felt perfectly!!
I am SO GLAD I did it!!! I think I'm still on an adrenaline high three hours later. Might look like nothing but fun to you, but it was a majorly big breakthrough for me.
WOO HOO!!
And since it's Jason's big day, here's the birthday boy's flight. He loved it!!! He couldn't get enough.
What a day!
Monday, January 26, 2015
Caroline's 5th Birthday
(That was 6 months ago.) Oops.
So it seems I forgot to post about Caroline's birthday back in July. I have a few excuses for that...
1. It was REMARKABLY similar to her 3rd birthday party. (Same place, just a little less afraid of Chuck E. this time.) It felt like I had posted about it already.
2. The pictures were uploaded to Jason's computer so I forgot all about them.
And...
3. I think it's important to forget about each of my kids at different points in their lives so that they know I love them (and forget about them) equally. I wouldn't want anyone to feel like that he/she is the sole target of my absentmindedness. ;)
With Sarah-- I forgot to get Sarah off the bus when she was in Kindergarten. Because of that, she took a mini tour of Plano before the bus driver realized she was still on board and returned her to my house. It was traumatic.
With Jack-- I forget his name all the time. I call him "Jason" a lot. And I've called him "Sarah" a few times. He's the only kid who's never had an extra curricular activity. He wanted to play basketball once, but I forgot to sign him up.
With Caroline-- She's been harder to forget since she's been my sidekick at home and at work her entire life until she started Kindergarten. But I managed to forget to post about her 5th birthday on the blog. This may not seem like a big deal, but-- trust me!-- she'd notice later and give me a hard time about it. She's a bit of a score keeper when it comes to things like this. ;)
Truthfully, I'd have never documented her birthday if it weren't for Stefani reminding me that I totally forgot!
So without further ado, here are pics from Caroline's 5th birthday party at Chuck E Cheese's. (Or as I like to think of it "Her 3rd Birthday, Part 2".)
So it seems I forgot to post about Caroline's birthday back in July. I have a few excuses for that...
1. It was REMARKABLY similar to her 3rd birthday party. (Same place, just a little less afraid of Chuck E. this time.) It felt like I had posted about it already.
2. The pictures were uploaded to Jason's computer so I forgot all about them.
And...
3. I think it's important to forget about each of my kids at different points in their lives so that they know I love them (and forget about them) equally. I wouldn't want anyone to feel like that he/she is the sole target of my absentmindedness. ;)
With Sarah-- I forgot to get Sarah off the bus when she was in Kindergarten. Because of that, she took a mini tour of Plano before the bus driver realized she was still on board and returned her to my house. It was traumatic.
With Jack-- I forget his name all the time. I call him "Jason" a lot. And I've called him "Sarah" a few times. He's the only kid who's never had an extra curricular activity. He wanted to play basketball once, but I forgot to sign him up.
With Caroline-- She's been harder to forget since she's been my sidekick at home and at work her entire life until she started Kindergarten. But I managed to forget to post about her 5th birthday on the blog. This may not seem like a big deal, but-- trust me!-- she'd notice later and give me a hard time about it. She's a bit of a score keeper when it comes to things like this. ;)
Truthfully, I'd have never documented her birthday if it weren't for Stefani reminding me that I totally forgot!
So without further ado, here are pics from Caroline's 5th birthday party at Chuck E Cheese's. (Or as I like to think of it "Her 3rd Birthday, Part 2".)
Monday, October 13, 2014
Jack is EIGHT
Ordinarily I would celebrate my birth for a month. But ever since Jack was born I have learned to share October.
I'm generous like that.
His birthday party was at the movies (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) and a playdate at home.
Since today is his actual birthday, we celebrated here today.
Lots of photobombs in these pics.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Birthday weekend part 2
Sarah made me breakfast in bed on Saturday (my actual birthday). Complete with coffee just the way I like it.
Then Jason and I went to Klyde Warren Park that night. We had dinner on the patio and did some people watching. There was LOTS to see....
Birthday weekend part 1
I turned 35 last weekend, and I celebrated ALL weekend.
First up was Katy Perry with Hilary.
We went shopping at Northpark. Then we headed to dinner at St Ann.
We walked to the American Airlines Center and pulled out our tickets. But when they scanned them, we found out the seats had already been used.
I guess they were double sold.
We went to the box office to see if they had any seats available. They had 2 together for $150/each. We debated paying for additional tickets, but we decided to go ahead and get them.
We got in, bought a drink, and headed to our new seats.
Our previous tickets had us in section 327. The new ones were in 105!
We arrived in section 105 and stood at the top next to row U. I checked our tickets and we were row F!!! Seats 3 and 4.
We couldn't believe it!!! We were so close to the stage; it was insane. Such a fun night!
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