Erick's birthday

Today we celebrated Erick's 34th birthday, even though his birthday isn't actually until tomorrow. But we both ended up with the day off, so we decided today would work better for the purpose of celebration.

First we went together to town to have a little date. We went to the beauty school so I could get my hair fixed again. It had grown out a few inches since I'd cut it last, plus my roots were showing. After I got it dyed blonde last time I went back and added some brown foils so it would look a little more natural and blend better with my roots when they started growing back in. This time I had blonde highlights added to the roots so I would still have some brown. I really liked it, and the whole thing only cost me $24. The student that cut my hair was very confident and seemed to know what she was doing. I was glad I had her and not the one cutting the hair of the lady next to me. That poor girl was doing her first hair dye and looked scared to death.

Here are some pictures of my new 'do:

Front view

Back view

Side view

After that we went to Olive Garden and ate. I had lasagna and Erick had some kind of chicken thing stuffed with cheese and tomatoes and covered with mushroom sauce. They took kind of long with our food so the server gave him an extra scoop of mashed potatoes, although Erick doesn't even eat mashed pototoes anymore because he's given up carbs for his diet. He did eat some, as well as half a breadstick, but he regretted it by the time he was done. I think we both ate too much.

Then we went over to the Open Door which is a Christian book store and bought a few books. I got Lynn Austin's latest one. I'm excited because she's my favorite author.

Erick is sitting here next to me remarking about how it's his birthday and that I'm posting all about me. Oh well. :)

Anyway, while we were gone, the kids were decorating for his birthday (see Erick? It's not just about me!) and they hung squiggly balloons all over the livingroom. They hung them from the ceiling fan in a sort of box shape with lots of crepe paper dangling around as well.

They also baked an angel food cake for him with Splenda. Angel food cake doesn't have much flour, so it was a good choice for his diet. We bought some sugar-free ice cream to go with it, too.

When we got back we gave him the gifts we had bought him last night--a teensy little Bible on a keychain (it has Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Hebrews, James, 2nd John, and 3rd John). Now if he forgets his Bible he has something to preach out of, but he'll need a magnifying glass to read it. We also bought him a Three Stooges movie (in color, no less!) and an AlumaWallet. As Seen On TV. He was interested in it, and so I got it. Besides, he got me the As Seen On TV Eggies that I had been curious about for Christmas, so I figured I owed him one.

We watched the Three Stooges when we got home, and they were really stupid as usual, but I laughed anyway. I couldn't help it. It's like on America's Funniest Home Videos when they show everyone falling down on trampolines or getting hit in the crotch. It's not funny, not really, but for some reason everyone laughs. (Except for mature people.)

Then we waited to eat supper until we had digested our lunches, which the kids felt took far too long. I forgot to buy birthday candles for his cake. Sarah had dug out some leftover ones from the bottom of the utensils drawer, but they looked kind of gross so we didn't let her put them in the cake. Instead we lit the candle that my brother-in-law gave me for Christmas and Erick blew it out. Then we re-lit it and he blew it out again. We were going to make him do it 34 times but he got tired of it after only twice. I guess that means he's only two.

So far he's had a nice birthday, I think. I've enjoyed his birthday, anyway. :)