...Was the BEST ever! After coffee I opened prezzies. Beautiful earrings from Miles. From Willa a sweet handmade flannel bag containing the same material for us to make her a bag together. She wants us to use these bags to gather things outside in the summer! She and Miles spent a great deal of time working on this bag in her room last weekend. Dylan was able to chase down a DVD copy of "The 12 Chairs", one of my favorite movies. I had searched for a copy in the past to no avail. Weird because it's such a great movie! This movie-and having it now-means so much to me. I have many fun memories of watching it with my dad. We were always reciting lines from it as is so easy to do with a Mel Brooks movie!
My sweet husband worked hard on Saturday prepping ganache and lemon curd for my crepe breakfast on Sunday. I'd been dreaming of this breakfast since before last year's birthday. Miles and I had sworn off fattening food over the holidays last year, and I had begrudgingly given up the birthday crepes... for egg whites. Not THIS year, baby!!!! They were AMAZING and so worth the wait!!!!!
After breaky we threw on the snow gear and ventured out onto the property to find this year's Christmas tree. There's a few little trees out there struggling to grow in the shadows of other larger more healthy trees. We decided go the enviormentaly friendly route and cut one of those in order to give the healthier trees more room to grow..some are being choked out by these little trees. We found one growing under and against a cluster of willow. It's a PERFECT tree! Sparse with lots of room for hanging our tons of ornaments! We thanked the earth and then the tree- for presenting itself to us. This is the first time any of us have been a part of cutting a Christmas tree outside and I was just SO thrilled! From our own back yard on a snowy blustery day! The perfect thing to do on my birthday!
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| Trying to keep the tree upright until we could locate the tree stand. A huge storm was approaching and the winds were really starting to pick up! |
Once we got the tree up inside, Miles and I decided to head into town to skate ski our favorite trail system. It was pounding snow when we left and we were psyched at the idea of skiing in it! By the time we drove halfway down the mountain the snow turned to rain! In town it was dismally dark and pouring-a total bummer. So we drove back home where it was white and snowing and figured we would just go for a run in it! We only lasted about 35-40 minutes in the 45 MPH winds and driving snow! But we had a great time out in it anyway! 2 wacky freaks running in whiteout conditions! I LOVE my husband! My best friend and I LIVING STRONG! We got home red faced and revitalized.
By 5 pm the winds were POUNDING crazy-like. We were getting reports of freezing road conditions and accidents into Anchorage where we were all heading into for my Birthday dinner at Little Italy. We had to cancel. :( No way was I dragging my family into that. I had been so looking forward to that dinner! But with the power in danger of going out at any time my sweetheart got busy right away, cranking out one of my favorite meals in no time-skirt steak, baked potatoes, asparagus and a great wine unearthed from the basement stash. He even whipped up the BEST cake with the left over lemon curd and chocolate ganache! It looked like a mess but was delicious! The man is a WIZARD! So we enjoyed a "picnic"-the kids spread a blanket on the floor for themselves and we ate that fabulous meal while watching "The 12 Chairs".
This birthday was absolutely WONDER-FUL. I love my little family over the moon and beyond the stars...****************** THANK YOU, guys!!!
