Happy 35th Birthday Greg!!!

Today is Greg's birthday! For those of you that don't know, Greg is younger than me. He hit the big 35 today. Finally he's not two years younger than me. For that whole two months between mine and his birthday I have to hear how I'm two years older. Now he's 35 and we're back to only being a year apart. He didn't want to do anything special for his 35th so we just had a pretty much quiet day. He would like to have gone for a bike ride, but the weather this weekend just didn't cooperate. For crying out loud it was warmer on March 17th than it was today! Geesh Mother Nature what's the deal? It went from cold to super hot, and now it's back to cold. We did do a little pre-birthday celebration and went out Friday night to the new sports bar down the road, Lou and Harry's, with our friends Brenda and Jessica. Then we came back to our house and a co-worker of Greg's came over with his wife. We sat around and pretty much drank. I got to break in my new birthday martini glasses and cocktail shaker! It was a nice evening of good times with great friends! Today Greg chose Tomato Brothers in Howell for his birthday lunch/dinner with his mom. It was a crappy day for a drive, but the food there is awesome so it was worth it! Happy happy birthday to my wonderful husband! We all love you very much!

Now in other Shearwater Nest news.. Tuesday I volunteered for one of the last times in Evan's class. I had been going in every second Tuesday of the month to help out. I really enjoyed it, and with the end of the school year in sight that means the volunteering is coming to an end. It makes me a little sad. I'll be in one more time to help out on the last day of school which I'm looking forward to, but also will be a little sad that it will be Evan's last day with his teacher. He's had an awesome school year with an awesome teacher!

Wednesday the tooth fairy paid a visit to our house. Evan lost his third tooth. This time it was the top middle tooth. It had been loose for what seemed to be FOREVER. It dangled there, was crooked, and would not come out when Greg tried to pull it a few times. We didn't want to force it out so we let it be and knew it would fall out when it was ready. It finally did while eating a burrito for dinner. Ev was pretty excited and couldn't wait to put it in his tooth box. This time the "tooth fairy" brought $2. It was $10 for the first tooth, $5 for the second, and I decided for the rest the amount would come down. Here's Evan's new look!


Let's see what else... Last weekend our dryer went out. I came home from my mom's and Greg informed me that his clothes had been drying for over two hours and they weren't getting dry. So we went to Sears and browsed around at new one's. Then Monday we went to Best Buy and browsed around there. We went back and forth about should we call to have someone come out to look at it and fix it or should we just get a new one. The dryer is nine years old and we thought what if we spend the money to fix it and there's not guarantee it's going to last. So after finding a dryer on clearance at Best Buy, we decided to just go ahead and get a new one. We stumbled upon a new washer too on clearance even though we didn't really need one. It was too good of a deal to pass up so we walked out with both a new washer and a new dryer. We went with the high efficiency front load, and I think we're going to be really happy with it. The guy at Best Buy told us that the old style washers use 50-60 gallons of water per load and the front load high efficiency washers use about 20 gallons of water per load. That's crazy! Looks like we saved money on our clearance washer and we'll be saving money on our water bill! The washer and dryer arrived on Friday and as much as I hate doing laundry sometimes, I was happy to be able to do laundry again after a week of no dryer!

Yesterday Emmaline and I had a girls afternoon. Our neighbor Kate owns a dance studio and she invited us to the spring recital. We've been thinking about enrolling Emmaline in dance classes again so this was a great opportunity for Em to see all the dancers. It was held at Okemos high school and the performances were fabulous! We both had a great time and enjoyed all the different dance routines. Emmaline loved it! It was a great thing to do inside on a crappy Saturday afternoon! Thanks Kate for the invite! Now it's time to call it a night and get ready for a new week!