Celebrations

We recently celebrated three special occasions:

May 31 - Our Wedding Anniversary
June 4 - Sarah's Birthday
June 13 - Christian's Birthday

Tom and I celebrated seven wonderful years of marriage. He had just finished up his annual recurrent training, and we had been working very hard getting our house ready to sell, so we took a break and traveled to a bed and breakfast in Washington, Georgia. Unfortunately, we had our first negative B & B experience. The Internet pictures were gorgeous, the reviews were stellar, but what we found when we arrived was very different. However, we were thankful to be with one another, so we made the most of it and laughed about the experience.

Sarah celebrated her 12th birthday on June 4th. She has started a tradition in our family of decorating the bedroom door of whomever is celebrating a birthday. She has been so diligent in birthday celebrations, that I had to make sure that I decorated her door. She was glad to be the decorated instead of the decorator!

For her birthday dinner, she chose grilled chicken, sweet potatoes, green beans, broccoli, cheddar biscuits and caesar salad. For dessert, we had strawberry shortcake -- yum!

Christian celebrated his 17th birthday on June 13th, which is also my parent's anniversary. Kristin Hawkins and Sarah decorated his door, which scared him nearly to death when he came out of his room the next morning. When Sarah decorated my door, the same thing happened to me. I opened the door, and the streamers whooshed in and got in my face, which is a very frightening experience when you aren't expecting it!

For his dinner, Christian chose chicken pecan fettucine, broccoli, garlic bread and coconut cream pie for dessert.