Birthdays and V-Days

As an annual tradition, we had a birthday party Friday night. In fact we had 10 birthday parties on Friday night. Among our group of friends, there are 10 of us with birthdays between Jan, Feb, and March (with those March birthdays being the best). Instead of actually trying to have that many "birthday" parties, as if we were short of excuses to hang out, Erin and Cory hosted the big joint bash for everyone. If actually was Erin's Friday the 13th birthday and we all had a great time. Here is the photo of everyone celebrating their birthdays. This preceded the cops breaking up the party for being too loud. Not bad for a bunch of old farts like us anymore.

Following the massive Friday birthday party, was Valentine's day and a day obviously for just two. John had roses delivered Saturday morning to the house for me (what a sweetheart!, love you!) and we went out to dinner at Tommy's Saturday night. It was of course busy but someone must have said they were "John M" and stole our table seating so we waited an extra half hour or so instead of just an hour. But no bother, the manager bought us a round for the delay which is pretty good considering John was drinking 12year scotch and I was drinking Grey Goose. Still and great dinner and a good evening with the hubby.

We spent most of the rest of the weekend house shopping. Given the economy we might take advantage of the mortgage rates of a lifetime and upgrade while there are deals out there. Nothing much to report on this front yet. There *may* be a house we want (that actually meets ALL of our criteria) but no calls yet. Sunday afternoon I finally had time after house hunting to make John his Valentine's present, a German Chocolate Cake from scratch, frosting included.