Look Who's Getting Older

We have already gone to Biscuits Cafe for breakfast and to Starbucks for coffee. This evening is a special dinner made by me and then off to get a dessert...to the Body Worlds exhibit Saturday and then on Sunday to Lapellah with our buddies.

Celebrating 85 years

Yesterday afternoon we went to celebrate an 85th birthday.

Tom's mother, Marie, turned 85 last Thursday. We got together with his sister, Linn and our nephew Thomas.

We had a nice lunch and enjoyed a lawn game before indulging in birthday ice cream cake.

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Tom Celebrates Another Year!

We met up with some good friends at Charlie's Bistro and enjoyed some food...some wine and a lot of birthday fun! The best(?) gift - the lost wicket from our croquet set.

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Happy Birthday to TOM!

My awesome hubby is celebrating another birthday today!

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Friday was my 45th Birthday! I took my floating holiday and got a nice break away from work. The day itself was pretty relaxing - coffee with a friend, hanging out with Tom who was home from work.  That evening we went to Charlie's Bistro for Happy Hour. Not all of our core group could make it (Missed you Dan & Dani!), but we had fun hanging out and visiting.

My birthay cake was from Larson's, the Strawberry Cream Cake...SO GOOD!

Just when I thought that these guys were out the door and leaving, they came back to sing the song...this was their second time through because I was not ready for them yet -

Some of the blessings from my favorite people...so sweet...

Tom's Birthday Evening

Photos of the evening.

Tom waited a whole year to open up his special blend that he did at Urban Wineworks. It was pretty good and went well with our pizza.

FINALLY, the shoes he's been drooling over for MONTHS! A little cake for the Birthday Boy!

Happy Birthday Tom!!!

Happy Birthday to my sweetie husband who is a kid at heart...

Tom's 50th Birthday Celebration

Tom turned 50 on November 10th and I planned for us and a special group of friends to do a Wine Blending 101 at Urban Wineworks in Portland.
http://www.urbanwineworks.com/

Mary & I arrived early to set up food for the celebration - here we are enjoying a flight of Bishop Creek Cellar wines....the Pinot Gris and Vintner's Blend are both very good!

The Wine Blending "kits" are set up for each person.

Hanging out with friends before the "party" begins.

The gang is all ready to learn how to blend.

This is Leigh our wine blending expert...she is bottling our special blends
from the barrels at the shop...we blended 3 Walla Walla wines
(Cabernet Sauvignon from Abeja, Cabernet Franc and Syrah from Three Rivers).

In the end, everyone went home with a bottle of their personal blend.

Happy Birthday to ME!

We celebrated my birthday with some good friends with a lunch at Bethany Vineyards. We started off with a wine tasting and purchased a bottle of the Syrah and the Pinot Gris to go with lunch which was a bunch of little finger food type things and build your own deli sandwiches and Strawberry Cream Cake from Larson's for dessert. We enjoyed a couple of hours of food and fellowship.

A group shot of me, Mary & Robin....

I like CAKE!