Birthday Parties...

On my actual birthday Kayden and I went out for ice cream after he got out of school and that night some friends met up with us at the bowling alley  for quarter bowling to celebrate. I even shared the cupcakes that Kayden and I had made a day earlier.

Then on Friday Kayden and I picked up Jesse on our way to glow-in-the-dark mini-golf. We met our old neighbor Mary and her 4yr old son Christopher there. We golfed, the boys played air hockey, then we dropped Kayden off with his grandpa, and had a nice lunch. It was a good 2nd party. My birthday week was filled with so many celebrations. I definitely enjoyed my birthday this year far better than last year. Thanks to everyone for the Birthday cards, wishes, phone calls, and emails. They all really helped make my day special.

 

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Babysitting...

Also while we were downtown we spent quite a bit of time hanging out with the Jeongs. They took us out for dinner and ice cream for my birthday and Jesse and I babysat the kids one night, so that Mark & Myrna could have a night out. As you can see from the pictures below Fiona is quite taken with Jesse now. She prefers that he hold her and she has even taken to babying him like one of her dolls. She cuddles up with him, reads stories with him, and even feeds him like any good mommy would. Denton is also quite taken with Jesse, because well... he is man. Denton and Jesse played Star Wars battle most of the night. Denton was Darth Mal, his favorite character, and well I'm not quite sure who Jesse was, but he definitely wasn't the winner whoever he was. We had a great time with them as we always do.

  

 

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It's been a while...

Jesse and I have become the go to housesitting/petsitting couple for the Denver Capital Hill neighborhood. We have 3 houses under our belt as regular customers and another one on the books. This last stint we did was for 12days. It's been a little chaotic, but we made it work. The extra money, the free laundry, and the nice house to stay in are great perks. Plus we're downtown with in walking distance to almost everything. Too bad the weather dropped from nearly 70 degrees right after my birthday to -26 degrees with in 3days. Yikes! Those big old houses can be drafty and take forever to heat up. Brrrr.... Thank goodness for fire places, hot tea, snuggies, cuddling, animal snuggling, and space heaters. If not for all of that we might have froze. The only downside was having to scoop the walkway and the sidewalk multiple times. The last stint started on my birthday and ended on Monday of this week, hence the absence in posting.

While we were down town we went out to  eat at Potager a restaurant in the neighborhood that our friends the Jeong's gave us a gift certificate too. It's a really pricey place that we probably would have never been able to try without the gift certificate. Our meal with tip was over $100, but with the certificate we only payed $27. Well worth it. So yummy!

After dinner we headed downtown to the Performing Arts Complex to watch our friend Joel perform in the choir that was accompanying the Denver Symphony Orchestra as they performed Mozart's Requiem. This was all in celebration of my birthday. We got dolled up and made a fancy night of it. We had great seats and the performance was perfect. It was a wonderful birthday night out. The tickets to the show were Jesse's present to me. It's even more perfect that it was a Mozart show since he is my birthday buddy. I don't know many other people born on January 27th, but Mozart was so it was quite fitting. We had a great night.