Happy Birthday to Me!

Despite everything, I had a great birthday weekend. We spend most of it camping at Mission Bay with my parents, and on my actual birthday, David's parents, Alex & Angelina all came to visit and have dinner with us at Anthony's Fish Grotto downtown. I felt so loved by all the calls, texts, emails, & facebook messages (boy, we sure live in a digital age, huh?), so thank you to everyone.

And, I was overwhelmed to be blessed with an amazing birthday gift, too...

A New Camera!! I am so excited, and so thankful to David, my parents, my in-laws and my grandma!! And I'm also proud of David for being such a savvy shopper and getting an amazing deal (yay for Circuit City going out-of-business!).

It takes amazing pictures. Now I just have to learn how to use it-- luckily I have a willing friend/teacher. Here are a few fun ones from the weekend from the new camera, since my brother was bugging me to post a few. :)

Here are a few "artistic" ones just for fun.

Big blog news coming soon- stay tuned!

Birthday Fun

We had a fun time with some friends celebrating Gigi's birthday. Here are a few photos:
the moms & kids: Meredith, Baby Anna, Kelley, Baby Jude, Me, Gigi, Brooke, Melody, & Baby Wyatt (missing: Britton)!

the fam

Gigi's "all done" with her cupcake!

Here's the album where you can see the rest: http://flickr.com/photos/bennettars/sets/72157604968196252/

Due to some technical difficulties, I unfortunately don't have a video of the cake-eating! :( But don't worry, i have another chance since she's having 2 parties (I do have a DVD of it, but my conversion software is not working to get it on the compy... time for a different type of video camera for easier editing!!)

P.S. Subscribers and/or those of you who read this in a feed reader, come visit the actual blog and see another cute photo from her b'day that is our new header!

I'm 27!

Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes and helped to make my day special!! In addition to all that, I had a great day...

David, Gigi & I went to lunch at a yummy deli, and got a scoop at Baskin Robbins! Yum!

Then we did a little shopping at Old Navy and Best Buy (got a Dyson- woohoo!).

And finally we dropped Gigi off at our friends the Stopniks' house for the evening and we went out on the town! We took the train downtown and had a yummy shrimp dinner at Bubba Gump's. That much I was aware of, but the exciting part of the night was a surprise! David took me to see Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. It was fabulous! I mean, so good! It's a show similar to Cirque du Soleil but done by an American company. Lots of good tumbling action, elaborate costumes, and crazy talented peeps. We both really enjoyed it.

Here we are all dressed up at the Stoppies' house.

Meanwhile, Gigi had a fun time with her friends Brooke & Britton. They even got to all take a bath together and get cool mohawks!