My Bookish Birthweek!! Thanks All!

 Yep, it was a wonderful week for me, my birthday week in fact, aren't you all sad that all you get is a birth day?

On Monday I walked with LaVern, as always and she started off my birthday week with a gift.  After walking I ran to several stores to collect the plants and bedding I needed for the garden.

When Dad got home from work, he was off to Emily's to work on the bathroom.  He had laid the tile the weekend before, but had lots more to do to get it ready for her house guests, the Stevensons from Japan, who are staying with her, while they are here for Rui's graduation.

Later that night Dad gave me the amazing birthday gift of a iPad.  Lucky me, and thanks to all of you who helped advise him on what I would need.  Can't wait to learn more, and start using it at work!! Thanks honey, you are the BEST!

Tuesday I walked with Ginny, who gave me chocolate for my birthday!!  Yum!  Then I was already out working on my garden when my visiting teachers came, bearing gifts for my birthday of course.

Next my local girls came by with even more gifts.  Flowers, cookies (oh yes, sugar cookies are the absolute best birthday treat ... never been much of a cake person.) and a coupon book for help with flea.o.logy projects!!  I LOVE it!

 

I spent the evening in the garden adding composted steer manure, along with the composted leaves and turned the soil, and breaking it up with a rake, (after seeing that the small tillers run $200!!) just like my dad used to do.

 

Dad, of course, was off to the temple for his normal Tuesday evening shift.

 

 

On Wednesday I was off to work, as usual, with one delightful twist.  Darby had arranged for several of the kids, and grands, to meet for lunch at Cracker Barrel to celebrate  my birthday.  I ran over on my lunch hour to meet them.  Brittany, Ashley, Darby, Ben and Davin, on Becca's suggestion, had gone together and printed off the first year of my blog!!  A very pricey gift, and I cannot tell you how exciting it is for me!! Becca gad already given me my birthday present on Sunday, an amazing book she had put together of all my grands. Can I just say I love photo books? (and a special thanks to everyone who dug out their pictures for this collection, I hear it took hours!! No wonder I feel like the luckiest mom in the world!!)

 

 

 

Thursday was another work day for me and I spent much of the day gathering and packing up stuff to take to the antique show I was doing in Ogden this past weekend.  When I got home, I was exhausted, and Dad, needed to go over and work on the bathroom at Emily's some more, so I took a two hour nap, from 7:30 to 9:30 P.M. ... how funny is that?  When he got back, we spent an hour loading up the van for the antique show.

 

 

 

On Friday I was off to Ogden to set up for the show.  This is part of my set up.

 On the way home that night, Dad and I met up at the Home Depot in Lehi to pick out a sink/vanity and other goodies for finishing up the bathroom at Payson cottage.

Next it was off to Maui Chill for my birthday party.  The Moes , Heuers and Gearhearts met us there for gift opening and frozen yogurt.  I love this place.  Robin had sent me a Austen quote (from Emma) about being silly "I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."  So we did our best to be 'silly in a impudent way', as we are definitely sensible people!!

 Of course there were more birthday presents, mostly books , of course, which I love ... In fact there they are:

A book about dressing to match your personality.

A church book by an 'especially for youth' presenter.

A diet book about a diet that Robin and I discussed at one point.

A polka dot pocket book.  (OK that is another name for a purse, but still ....)

A book cut into the shape of a 'P'.

and a very Paula necklace too!!

With all the other books I got this week, I am definitely doing a post on my Pollyanna blog about my bookish birthday, I mean even an iPad is a Notebook!!  Right?

 The show on Saturday dawned bright and early.  Of course Dad was off to the Payson cottage to work on the bathroom some more, as the Stevenson's are to come Monday.

Above is my antique partner, Bruce, visiting with a goose.  This lady told us how she had hatched this goose, then had cuddled it, for days, including sleeping with it, so it would bond with her and be very tame. Really?  Why?

Next to me on the right is a cute older lady, dressed all in black and white ... I know this is what I am going to look like in a few year (just hope I am as thin as she is!)

 

Above is Bruce, with the dealer who was next to us.  Thought this pic was too fun to not include.

 

On Sunday, I had arranged with Bruce to watch my booth for the first hours of the show so that I could go to sacrament meeting with Dad.  Then he finished off his church meetings, all two wards worth of them, while I headed up to finish up my worst sales show EVER!!  In the end, after counting the actually money spent on gas, the cost of booth rental for the show, and the cost of the merchandise I sold, I actually lost something like $25 on the weekend, and that doesn't count the fact that I spent 25 hours there setting up and watching my booth.  YIKES!!

 

 
 

 Luckily for me, my friend Stacy came at the end of the show and hung around to help me load up my van!!  Yeah Stacy!!

Then I headed south, stopping in Pleasant Grove to have dinner with Trevor and Nell, and to receive the most amazing gift ever, finishing off my perfect birthweek.  She had formatted the biography I did of my father four years ago, and redid all the pictures for the best possible quality, and printed and bound it into this charming book.  I actually cried when I saw it.  Such a labor of love!

I also got to see Lu in the vintage stroller that I had found for Nell (and which she bought) at the antique show.  (See the show was not a total loss, right?) Lu says its her 'car'!!  So fun.  This is the type of stroller that my parents had for us in the 50's, and it will make an amazing photo prop. 

 

So that was my birthweek .... thanks to all of you who made it so amazing, and have left me feeling so cherished!!

  Oh and Dad and I thought you would enjoy seeing this picture of Spencer and Brittney in Cambodia that Dad stole off Brittney's FB page, which was posted by another member of their group!