Birth . . . month?

When you're turning 30, it's not good enough to just have cake one day and leave it at that . . . you deserve to celebrate for the full month, right?! My birthday celebrations started a few weeks ago when I went to a Metallica concert with Dan and Melissa. These guys can strum a guitar! I'm glad I was finally able to cross them off my list of 'want to see bands'. I haven't bought any of their albums for several years, so I didn't know a lot of their songs. I wish they would have only played songs from their Black album, which is by far my favorite! I quickly became very aware that my 'mom' attire doesn't quite fit at events like this! The highlight of the night for Dan was when a guy walking up the stairs tripped and spilled his beer all down Dan's leg! I guess that's to be expected when you're in the company of hard core rockers!

Over a year ago I told Dan that I wanted to go on a trip for my 30th birthday--maybe a cruise or something. Well, I wasn't really thinking at that point of leaving a baby at home! So, the cruise was out, but Dan did plan an awesome trip to Vegas! I knew he had planned something, but didn't know what until the week before what it entailed. We flew to Vegas on a Saturday morning, had lunch with our friend Chris at Hardrock Cafe, walked the strip for a couple of hours, then went to Mama Mia. We flew back home on Saturday morning, so it was a really quick trip, but a lot of fun. He arranged for his sister and sister-in-law to watch our kids (thanks Julie and Cheryl) so it was nice to leave them in hands we trusted! The kids had a lot of fun while we were gone.

Last weekend Dan arranged to go Quantum of Solace (007) on the opening night. We went with his coworker and his wife. It was a good show and was followed by a yummy dinner! It was nice to have an actual date--Thanks for babysitting Melissa!

We were all sick on my actual birthday, so we didn't do anything huge. We both worked during the day and we just ordered in for dinner. It was way less stressful than taking kids out! My coworkers ordered pizza and brought a cake in, so that was another yummy treat!

I did actually plan to go to Celine Deon this weekend too, but the concert was postponed for some reason! So, we just vegged at home with our kids (I shouldn't say that because we actually chased Mason around with hand puppets, played hide and seek, baked cookies, and spent about 2 hours trying to get Tristyn to sleep).

I'm not sure if I'll be able to squeeze anything else into the month, other than Thanksgiving next week! There are several of my family members that also have birthdays in November, so it always seems like we celebrate all month. Although I've been busy doing a lot of fun things, I'd consider taking it all back if I could stay 29!

I have photos of Vegas and some other things from this month, so I'll update this post when I can add them!