Another weekend, another birthday party and another supply of Jack Daniels to take home with us (though slightly depleted by the end of the day as we “fed the masses” during the party!!)
All that Jack!
I would definitely have to say that good times were had by all. Rob had the chance to hang out with friends we see often, and many that we haven’t had the chance to catch up with in quite some time. I asked him if his 40th birthday was everything he expected it to be and he told me that it was even better!! Of course we laughed about the fact that he really got a total of almost four birthday parties – between the two that I threw, the impromptu party at the bar the night of his actual birthday, and everyone celebrating with him all during the Jaycee Convention!
Yes - that is the birthday cake!
Rob and Kristen - "no relation"!
A Ray sandwich!
Rob with his godson - he's finding all of the grey!!!
Alec wanted to take pictures - Jen style!
So with his birthday celebration extravaganza over – it is time to start gearing up for some more fun and activity – tonight we are celebrating my nephew’s second birthday and this Saturday will be my own birthday celebration (turning 28 again!) though I am still not sure of the big plans other than to know that at some point I will be at the State Fair as is my birthday week tradition (cheesy and hokey and I LOVE IT!!!). And the activity is to get the house under control again – this year I didn’t quite get around to taking care of my lawn the way I like to, so the backyard is now no longer grass – more just weeds some crab grass and lots of clover!
On Sunday we actually decided to relax for a little bit after finishing cleaning from the party. Our original plans were to head to Waldorf to take care of some things – but I think after we went out to get our tents and help with final cleaning from the party we were both about ready to just collapse! I went to the cemetery for a while to take over my Sunday flowers to Chris and just to talk for a bit. It is very peaceful over there and is one of the few places where I can actually feel a little bit whole again. Of course Rob teased me about taking so many flowers over to Chris saying he is going to start wondering about him……that was how Chris and Rob always were though – teasing each other about who had the “more manly” scars (both had their operations within weeks of each other), who had the higher threshold for pain, and then in the same breathe Chris would tease Rob about “you know you want to spoon with me later.” Really, if you know a Hodo – then you know our warped senses of humor! But, it’s kind of nice to have Rob still tease like that though because it makes it kind of normal – kind of like one thing that didn’t have to change. You know – like we’re not pretending that Chris was different than what he was when he was still here.
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