One of the many features on the website is a daily deal. Todays deal was a great one for the kids!

At the local craft store each child was able to pick out a metal lunch box of their choice for .99 cents and decorate for free. The kids had lots of fun and loved their designer lunch boxes!

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Ok soooo – I don’t know that all my title is true but I did turn 29 yesterday April 14th and it was a beautiful day spent with beautiful people!

Note to all – Most of the beautiful people don’t like pictures taken or on internet ie. they will not be on here

So that means I don’t have lots of pictures like I normally do  and I am just going to write and insert a few crazy ones I guess. I say I had a good b-day but it actually started the day/night before when the kids, Jason and I went over to one of my best friends house for dinner.  She fixes the best food and I felt so special when she baked a cake just for ME I love spending time with friends and chatting. Her neighbor/family came over and joined us for dinner which was great. I had been over earlier that day shooting pictures of her kids. That made the day all the more fun. I had some proofs with me that I was able to show her. I hope to show you all a few in one of the next blog posts!! Cause she has some CUTE kids. Dinner was Fabulous and we had great food, great conversation, and the kids had great fun playing! Oh and Jason showed up with a NEW PHONE for me!!

“Hello! -Is anybody there?”

Yes the phone was cool. A palm pre. awesome I am finally getting caught up with everyone on phone technology I think? But all will have to be patient with me as I learn how this new one works. My dear friends are finding this out as I continue to accidentally call them over and over!! Thank you wonderful husband for a wonderfully cool gift!

I woke up Wednesday Morning singing the lyrics “It’s my birthday and I’ll sing if want too” until the kids shut me down by saying “Mother you sing everyday!”

On “the day” the 14th some beautiful flowers came. Yellow Roses. My dad. Yellow Roses from dad. This is something he has done for many years and many different occasions. Something I look forward to. Something I love!

Oh just for you to know – one of the things I LOVE about my new phone. THE CAMERA! Just take a look at the flowers below taken with the palm pre. AWESOME!

They were pretty….

And they smelled great too!

I received so many birthday wishes via

Facebook and twitter and through a message board I am a part of. It was crazy but kind of neat at the same time

These are just a few!

I received emails and of course the always awesome ORIGINAL mailed birthday card

Usually on my birthday we go to dinner with my dad. He takes me out somewhere special. This year he had to go out-of-town so we were delaying it till this weekend. However I did get a birthday call in the morning where he said to me…

Dad- I have a gift for you but it is not in yet.

In my head – (Hey i am ok with that.  Why are you calling to tell me this. We are having dinner together this weekend. right?)

Dad- Next Thursday you are going to go see…..

and that is why your gift isn’t here yet!

Me – (insert EXTREME excitement)

I was and am so very excited. I love Bon Jovi’s music and was looking at trying to get a ticket to go to this show since I have never been to one before.  This is so very very cool!!!!!!!!! (There will be a post when I get back from this concert!)

And here I will add thanks to my mom and step-dad. This is for the  awesome “original mail card” they sent me along with spending money! I love you guys!

After all that excitement I spent the rest of the day just relaxing.  I enjoyed lunch with my friends and received some body lotion that makes me smell super GOOD

For dinner we played it easy spending it eating barbecue at Dicky’s.

Guess who doesn’t like pictures

Allie moved cause we were laughing!!

I had a great day! I say a BIG HUGE THANK YOU to all who sent birthday cheer my way. It is friends and family that make the day special! They make every day special. I love you all.

This is something new for me. Many past New Years Eve nights I have spent my time with the great Ryan Seacrest on Dick Clarks Rockin New Years Eve Whoo Hoo!!

So this year on December 31st, 2009 when I saw a tweet come through from the friend I had most recently met and it said that she was wanting to go this 80″s dance event with hosts K92 (awesome local radio station) for the New Year  I got all excited and tweeted right away that I had been thinking about going but was not about to walk in by myself. It was in Roanoke which is about an hour away from where I live.  So she and the other 2 girls who I believe have all been friends for a while decided they would go. They together as a group do some really cool stuff! Anyway they let me tag along! YAY!

So I began getting prepared…..

Putting on my face. Ha! actually I don’t think I put on that much face. Au natural’s how I roll most of the time.  However a little never hurts some of the time

Checkin me self out -- How do I look? It was not really 80′s ish but it was ok.

I left early and drove myself. I could have ridden with the girls but I needed to leave early and run by my sister’s house to pick up my ticket. My sister and her boyfriend live in the Roanoke area and it ended up being cheaper to by ticket at the center than purchasing it over the phone. $10 cheaper!!!! It was nice I got to her house about an hour early so I got to spend some time and watch the Chick fil-a bowl. We are a Virginia Tech family and I must add they ended up winning!

While watching the game I guess we stopped paying attention and the dog had a little too much!

(P.S. -- no animal was harmed during photo shoot nor was alcohol given at any point!)

At about 9pm the rest of the party arrived and I met them at the Roanoke Civic Center. I made it in with no problems other than an officer of the law wanting to know what I was wearing on my pocket. I said it was my lifeline i.e. my insulin pump. He smiled and said he could let that go. I briefly thought in my head, I sure hope so cause if you don’t I just wasted my money cause it is not like I can take it off !

Once inside -- the place rocked. The Band was on a break so I found my party. They had a table. There had hors d’oeuvres and beer and water. I stuck with water for the whole night but was not real thrilled about paying $3 a bottle especially when the beer was $5. It was ok though cause with all the dancing I needed to stay hydrated!!

The band came back on and the DANCIN started. There name of the band was 80z-Enuff and they were absolutely fabulous. Once we were on the Dance floor we didn’t stop. All 80′s they play one after the other. It was GREAT!!!! I sang every song and danced non-stop! The only real breaks we took for four hours were when the band took a break and when it was time for the new year count down.

80 z Enuff Band!!!!

Here is a video I tried to record. I really am not good at that yet. I have my little camera and that is not great quality more importantly than that I am not comfortable about recording myself in front of a bunch of people. How ever I must mention that the function did have their own Camera and Video guy there. I got up and sang right into the camera! I was quite proud of myself! Ah HA!

Please view video if you would like otherwise don’t worry about it I promise I will work on how to get better video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2g_DIMcOTk

Here are the girls and I at during one of the breaks. It took some skill to take this picture and I thank Amanda on the far right. She is my friend from high school for shooting this

When it came time for the Count down to the New Years the Roanoke Civic Center had a star that they were going to drop.  Sort of like the ball in NY. Roanoke is known for the lit up star they have on one of their mountains hence the falling New Years star

So we counted 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

(This is a wild Picture of me)

The 2010 way in the background

So after the 12am fun part we danced till about 1:15am and then parted ways.

I made it home safe and sound though and had no incidents involving other cars or police!