No Downhill for Me

It was recently my birthday, my 40th birthday to be exact. It turned out to be a good day. I had to share it with Jeff because it was Father's Day and I shared it with Annalise because it was her dance recital that day. Even so it was nice.

It started off with Jeff announcing to the church congregation that it was my 40th birthday. I was happy to see a lot of people were surprised by the number -- I may be 40 but at least I don't look it. People thought he was in trouble for announcing my age but how little do they know me. I really don't care about the age, I was annoyed that he announced it from the pulpit. I like my birthdays to be quiet affairs with little fuss.

Jeff likes to tease me about my age. I'm actually 6 months older than him. You think being the older one would command a little respect -- nope, not in the least! Anyway, he was teasing me that everything is down hill now. That's when I told him. I may have stopped climbing the ladder but I'm going to stay on the platform for a long time.

The next day the whole family (even Jeff) went to Six Flags Magic Kingdom. We took Annalise's friend Tess and had a good old time. We ended up splitting up for maximum fun. Jeff took the older girls so they could ride the BIG rides while Robyn and I hung out together.

So, we went and saw a show

rode lots of rides

and Robyn managed to get soaking wet.

It was a good day!

Dance Recital 2010

It's the time of year. Oh yes, dance recital time. I have strong feelings about these recitals. First off, there are four freaking performances over three days. Secondly, the last two years they have been held over my birthday and Father's Day. I have the dubious pleasure of periodically sharing my birthday with Father's Day. Hopefully next year the recital will be on a different weekend or else I might go on strike! Okay, I'll probably won't because Robyn will be starting dance classes in next year, and I promise to stop whining. Here are some pictures from the recital:

Short video of a portion of Annalise's dance:

New Haircut

Today I gave in. Robyn has been asking me to get her haircut. You know the way little kids ask repeatedly several times a day. She wanted bangs. Well, we just grew them out and I wasn't any hurry to chop them off as it takes a long time to grow those suckers out. But --- Annalise got bangs a few months ago so that meant Robyn now wanted bangs. She always wants whatever Annalise has or does. Sometimes it's cute and sometimes it's just downright annoying.

Jeff & Annalise were in SF this weekend to watch a Giants game and run a 5k race the next morning. So I needed to find something to do that was fun. Last night we saw the new Shrek movie (if you haven't seen it yet, wait until it comes out on DVD) and today she got her haircut.

front view
back view

I like the haircut but she looks so different with bangs. I especially like how the back turned out. The hairdresser really cut it well. Now we will just have to see what happens the next time it's washed -- will it look as cute when I get ahold of it? That is the million dollar question.

New Camera

My new camera.

I bought on sale from Best Buy last Monday. I'm still trying to figure it out so don't expect perfect pictures -- yet. Annalise is also excited because I gave her my old camera. She's been having fun taking pictures of everything.