Oct 4, 2008 - Heather's Birthday

One of the joys of having so much family around is that we celebrated Heather’s birthday multiple times. First, on Saturday morning Craig and Rachel made Heather breakfast in bed (toast and Ovaltine) and gave her a card (with a basset hound on front) and her presents: a 12-pack of Cherry Coke (each can represented some things she does that make us love her so much) and money for new blinds. Yep, Heather would like some new blinds because all (except for the ones in Rachel’s room) are very old/ugly/etc. Over time, she plans to replace all of them. Yes it sounds vain and prideful but she’s at home all day looking at the copper colored things. They can look really bright when the sun’s on them and show all the dust too. She’s thinking of getting those cool fake wood ones and hopefully have enough birthday money to update 2 small windows. Then we went to the Bolton’s (Heather’s parents) where there was cake and birthday gifts. Then the scene was repeated at the Christensen’s after Sunday dinner. Among other things she received was a kit for a relaxing bath including Pepsi, chocolate and bubble bath.

We spent most of the weekend with family watching conference, although we did find time to look at Lolcats with Stephanie and play Candyland with Grandma Leslie. Rachel tried to persuade Craig to play Polly Pocket, but Craig elected to turn it into Polly racing with the Lego’s. Leave it Craig to improvise and negotiate. 

This was a busy week for Craig at work – it was the end of the quarter for his clients, so he spent most of Friday, Monday and Tuesday working on making sure the numbers were correct. The instability in the markets made for a lot of last minute adjustments (Lehman’s fall made for a lot of ripples in the financial markets). But after a lot of work, the reports went out.

Heather is planning for Rachel’s birthday party. Rachel wanted both boys and girls to come, but when she found out that “boys don’t like Tinkerbell,” she decided it would be better to make it an all girl party. This is the first birthday party with friends Heather’s done and she was nervous about figuring out what to do as far as games go. Thankfully there is something called Google and she found a website to help. Heather scored some great ideas for activities so she’s really looking for ward to the party. Within the 30 minutes it took to find/read the site Heather went from feeling really nervous to feeling like she can do it.