Today I turned 38.
Years ago, during a time that CandyMan and I like to refer to as “The Golden Years,” our neighborhood was filled with our best friends. Our back yard connected to another backyard. Our families were so close that we kept our back doors open and would come in and out of each other’s houses at will. Our kids were best friends and we were together nearly every day.
Down the street lived another family, also with kids the same ages as ours. We would swap date nights while we watched each other’s kids, have Thanksgiving dinner together, and share a birthday lunch every October, since my friend and I had back to back birthdays.
Our friends have all moved away, and though we still keep in touch, the Golden Years of park play dates and late nights playing games while the kids all crashed together upstairs is gone.
Yesterday I received the best birthday present ever – the chance to reunite our families for a night of BBQ, soccer, cake, and ice cream. Oh, and my supposedly famous crescent rolls (recipe coming soon).
I can’t imagine anything better than spending my almost-birthday with such good friends…well, except for maybe the news that they were all moving back and we could revisit the Golden years now that our kids are teens.
My birthday gift to you – Blue Bunny Ice Cream giveaway!
We enjoyed taste-testing four flavors of Blue Bunny ice cream last night – Sweet Freedom® Bunny Tracks®, Sweet Freedom® Banana Split, Premium Red Carpet Red Velvet Cake™, and Premium Dulce De Leche. While I was surprisingly pleased with the Red Velvet Cake ice cream, the clear informal “taste test” winner was the Dulce de Leche ice cream, and all of the adults were raving over how perfect it was.
Since I couldn’t invite all of you over for my birthday, how about I give away 5 “Bunny Bucks” good for 5 Blue Bunny ice cream treats of your choice? Enter in the Rafflecopter form below. And good luck!
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Disclosure: I received the Blue Bunny ice cream free of charge, but thoughts, opinions, and unofficial taste tests are my own.
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I love to spend it with my family.
Homemade family dinners are the best for us! That way I control the ingredients.
I would most love to try the Sweet Freedom® Banana Split
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I love it when my husband cooks supper and my children and him make me a lop-sided birthday cake as I know it was made with love.
lauraemerson17 at yahoo dot com
Dinner & a movie with my family :)
with friends and family, usually out to eat.
I like going out to eat and not having to cook anything :)
I like to celebrate with some time to myself!
I usually just have a nice pizza from my favorite pizza place
I love to celebrate my birthday by going out to eat.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(DOT)com
I love having a dinner party with my close friends and family.
I love celebrating with family and friends.
i love to go to dinner with hubby
If I’m lucky, I like to go home and spend my birthday with family. My favorite is ICE CREAM CAKE! :)
I love having friends and family over as we enjoy cake and blue bunny ice cream!
My birthday is the 3rd of July. so I like celebrating it on the fourth with the fireworks!
Well my Birthday is coming up in December and I like to go out to dinner with my Husband!
as I get up there in age I dont like to celebrate but we usually have a cake and my kids know I love gardening so they get me plants :)
I love to celebrate my birthday with my kids and husband, and we usually go out for dinner.
we would celebrate my bday by just going out to eat dinner together as a family
I love to celebrate it by spending time with my wife (and grabbing a few freebies along the way ;))
Dinner with family
I like to go out to eat with my family for my birthday.
just spending time with my kids and their families
jagar0047 at yahoo dot com
We go out for a nice dinner.
dinner and ice cream cake
ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
Dinner with family and friends at a restaurant!
We go bowling every year!
I love to go out to my favorite restaurant with my family
i celebrate it with my sister she is my twin its her birthday too
with icecream!
I like to celebrate my birthday just by hanging out with my family and usually my husband cooks me made from scratch cheese raviolis!
I go out to dinner with my girls and my son helps me bake myself a cake LOL
lyndsey.rullman at hotmail dot com
Blues & bbq (and angel food cake)
my birthday is 3 days after christmas. I usually just have cake and ice cream
i just get cake and ice cream and share my day with my family.
chrissylea1979 (at)gmail(dot) com
I love celebrating my birthday by going some place special with my kids and hubby (and where I don’t have to cook.)
I really don’t celebrate them anymore, except for getting best wishes from my children and grandchildren.
Going to Olive Garden for dinner.
I like peace and quiet and chocolate cake.
I love to be surrounded by family and friends.
I like to celebrate with a big Chocolate Cake and the kids!!!
ptavernie at yahoo dot com
I like to go out to dinner for my birthday
I like to go out for dinner with my family.
I love to be with my family and of course indulge in some cake and ice cream.
reejen at comcast dot net
At home with my family
I like to celebrate my birthday with my family. That is the most important thing to me.
I like to celebrate by going out to a restaurant with my family.
I like to celebrate my birthday with my boyfriend and a few close friends/family, nothing big just cake, ice cream and chatter :)
With friends and out of town.
My birthday is also my wedding anniversary.I normally make a nice meal and just enjoy the day with my 4 kids and my husband. This year I spent my birthday recovering from surgery.
I love to go on a day trip with my daughter up to the mountains.
I like to go out to eat with my family.
As long as I am with family and loved ones!
I love to have cake with my kids
I have a summer birthday, so like to be camping or outside.
Dinner and drinks with the family :)
I Am trying to convince my boyfriend to take me Red Lobster this year for my birthday, yum!
The last view years I haven’t done anything.
Drinking a lot with friends and family. Throw cake and ice cream somewhere in the night
We celebrate with family dinners, ice cream and cake
My husband and kids normally buy me a cheesecake for my birthday
annabella @ centurytel dot net
We don’t do anything for my birthday, but we have a nice party for the kids on theirs and I take my wife out to dinner and buy her a few gifts on hers.
Cake and Ice Cream with my family!
usually celebrate with the whole family at my house
i usually have cake..and ice cream and my husband gets me flowers
As long as I have the day off work and get to spend it with my boys, I’m happy! I don’t need a celebration :)
I would love a romantic dinner with my husband, followed by cake and ice cream with my whole family!
I celebrate my birthday by relaxing and catching up on my own hobbies.
I love to get myself one of the richest cupcakes you can find and eat it slowly :D that my idea of the best birthday. Party with my family later that night.
I’m not into big parties, but I like to celebrate with my family – and ice cream is always involved! livinglearningeating AT gmail DOT com
I like to celebrate quietly, at home :) Maybe a bit of cake and ice cream :)
dinner with my girlfriends
after a certain age you dont like to celebrate birthdays…..lol
How does not matter so much to me…we can do most anything, as long as I am with my hubby and all three of my kids I am very happy! I could not ask for more in life than for all of us to be together!
I love to get together with friends and family. Rarely happens these days.
Just hanging out with the family, a nice quiet day.
With my family eating out at one of our favorite restaurants
I like to celebrate with my family
Quietly with family and a couple of friends, maybe playing some games with them.
Dinner with my family, an ice cream cake, and some shopping :)
Not having to cook or clean up
I love going out to dinner with the family to celebrate!
Go out to dinner and a movie with my hubby
Digicats {at} Sbcglobal {dot} Net
I like to go out to dinner, maybe a fancy cocktail, definitely cake and ice cream later at home.
weekend trip to WDW with hubby, my fb is Michelle Trump andmy email is tracietrump@yahoo.com
I like to spend it with my grandson who I share my birthday with
I like a quiet birthday with m.y family
I don’t celebrate birthdays
spending time with my family
as long as you are with your family that is all that counts, GOD BLES YA’LL
We always go out to dinner and a movie!
I celebrate with cake and ice cream, family and friends! Thanks.
I love to celebrate with my family and friends at home
Dinner and a movie with hubby.
Mine falls around Mother’s Day, I like to fire up the grill and have all the kids and grandkids visiting, it is usually the time I get all my little helpers getting the garden in.. best birthday present for me.
I love to go out to eat!
going out to dinner
I like celebrating with hubby and kids.
I just love to have my family around and have a lunch or dinner…..something kindof quiet with the people I love. :)
I’d like to celebrate with a romantic weekend with George Clooney. :)
With my husband and my family.
love celebrating with the family over a good meal!
Happy Birthday! I turned 37 on 10/13. Fellow Libra here! We went out to dinner as a family and had cupcakes from the bakery for dessert.
with my kids and a homemade birthday cakes
My kids and grand-kids come over with cake and we have a great day!
I like to have dinner with family
I love to be taken out for dinner so I don’t have to cook and clean!
I love celebrating my birthday with my loved ones and an ice cream cake!
Hubz and I both have February birthdays–his about a week before Valentine’s Day, mine about a week after. On the weekend between, we like to take a short driving trip someplace maybe 2-5 hours way, rent a room, see some sights, and just be together :)
homecooked dinner by my wonderful husband and children
I took a wonderful big trip for my 50th but since then I’ve just worked and had a nice dinner out with partner. I hate the fuss of everyone knowing it’s my b-day and my partner knows I will kill him if he tells the server. I can buy my own $5 dessert if I want one.
love going out with friends
vmkids3 at msn dot com
out to dinner
As I long as I don’t have to cook, I never care what we eat…LOL! But I do demand an icecream cake!
My birthday is 4 days before Halloween — so I combine Halloween parties with my birthday! Dinner then handing out candy!
Terri P
pr4gatheringroses AT gmail DOT com
I like to go out to eat, and end the meal with a decadent dessert.
Sharing it with my twin sister and family is enough for me!
C-A-K-E!!
I go out to dinner with my family.
with family and the cake my son makes me with extra extra sprinkles
nannypanpan@gmail.com
a fancy dinner out would be really nice.
Usually we go out for Dinner, then a comedy club. I love to laugh on my Birthday
Family, good food and fun!
Cake with ice cream and my family is how we celebrate.
I love to spend time with my family!
Just relaxing watching movies.
with my family
I go gambling… gotta cash in that birthday luck, right? ;)
Happy Birthday ladies!
Love to have lots of champagne with friends and buy myself an indulgent gift!
My birthday is July 4th, so we celebrate by attending the local parade, family picnic, and wind up the day with fireworks.
I like to go out to lunch/dinner with my best friend for my birthday.
I love to celebrate my birthday with family
With all my children home~
i love to celebrate my birthday with family.
I like to celebrate my birthday quietly with my husband daughter. They take me out to dinner so I don’t have to cook
By going out to eat so i dont have to cook
kport207 at gmail dot com
I like to celebrate by going out to eat.
By eating Strawberry Twizzlers
typically with friends & family eating good food
I love to celebrate with my husband, kids and my brother & his family.
I like to go out to eat.
I’d love to celebrate with a relaxing day at a spa, and then a nice dinner out with my family!
I joined your book club with email ageorgiamomma@gmail.com
I like to celebrate with my family we have a cake and a cookout.
We usually go out to dinner for my birthday
with good friends