A Week in My Life – Day 6 – My Birthday!

It started out like just about any other Saturday: soccer, soccer, and a little bit of flag football thrown in there.

My only complaint about the team sports this week was that I wasn’t able to sleep in after last night’s Wii party. The best part of the morning, though, was waking up to a totally clean house. I love that I could throw a party and not have a huge mess to clean up the next day.

Reese’s team won their very first soccer game. Reese was the goalie when her team scored their first goal. I caught a little victory dance…

After games were over, Reese and I headed to the store to get candy for my pinata (that Necco made for me…pictures below). I also picked up Monopoly, since a FEW of my kids have complained that they are no longer satisfied with Monopoly Jr. Ahem.

I think we have spent 6 or 7 hours this weekend playing Monopoly. I think it was a good purchase.

For my birthday dinner, I opted to go out as a family instead of on a date with CandyMan. It’s pretty rare for all of us to go out to dinner (it’s also pretty expensive…) and I wanted to celebrate with everybody.

We headed to our old favorite restaurant, where the servers know us (though they haven’t seen the kids in a while). Not only did we have a fabulous dinner of 3 full platters of fajitas and two enormous Steak Salvadoreno, but we got some authentic live Latin music right next to our table AND a birthday announcement in Spanish. Plus, Happy Birthday sung over the loud speaker, a huge (and heavy) sombrero, and flan with a birthday candle inside.

After dinner, the kids and I danced til we dropped with Just Dance 2. And broke the pinata that Necco had made and filled with more candy than we need before Halloween….

Happy, happy times.