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Wedding bells are ringing. My sister called yesterday to ask if I would be her maid of honor. No, I'm not being mean putting this pic next to this news. She is literally clipping one of these on instead of rings. Yes, I think it's funny, but appropriate?? Not quite sure. It is her wedding and her choice, but wow. Her boyfriend of 7 years is actually agreeing to it, as well as playing highway to hell as the wedding march. This oughta be quite interesting. Anyhow, on to other stuff. *LOL*

My birthday was GREAT!!! I didn't really want to go anywhere and "celebrate" this year, but when you have a 3 yr. old insisting on taking his mom to the zoo for her birthday, ya gotta oblige!!! I must say it was an awesome idea and we all had genuine fun. It was nice! First we went to my favorite Mongolian Grill restaurant, then off to the zoo.

My mom had a dinner for me at her house waiting at 7, so it worked out perfectly, since the zoo closed at 6. My dad owns his own seafood shop, so we actually wound up eating a ton of seafood, I know a lot of people aren't big fans of it, but I am, so yummmmmy!!!! I haven't had an actual birthday party in years, so this is new to me. My hubby usually kidnaps me and we spend a few days "celebrating," by doing, with lack of better wording, "tourist-y" things. (ie. Space Needle, EMP, trip to Victoria, BC., etc.) So this was really quite a change to spend some time with family this year.

Our celebration ended with cake and rainbow sherbert and the kiddos of our family (7 of them, age 3-13) singing over and over the song from Chevy's and placing the sombraro on my head. It was quite funny, and no I'm not sharing pics of that, they weren't flattering pics!! :oP Celebration resumed later that night when my brother (23) decided to gather my sis, my mom and I to take us to the local casino. I did poorly, good enough to continue playing for a bit, but nonetheless, walked out poorer than I was. I was smiling though, that's what counts!!

Next day (Aug7), still celebrating, my sis offered to watch all the cubs, including #4!!! Luckily, I had pumped enough, just in case someone had offered to sit for us. ;) So, off to dinner we go. We went to one of those Japanese restaurants where they cook your food at your table~YUM~ It's been ages since hubby and I had been alone together. Before cub4 we "dated" almost bi-weekly, since cub4 was born in Feb. it's slowed waaaaaaaay down. It'll be nice to date him again, afterall he is a great guy!

We got a call saying, cub4 was wanting his mom NOW! So, no movie. No biggie, our backup plan was to take the cubs with us to the drive-in. Wedding Crashers and Mr. & Mrs. Smith were playing together, both of which we hadn't seen. One quick swoop to pick up the cubs and off to the drive-in we go!!!

Tiring weekend, so I just woke up. I'm off to do something productive, or at least try!