November . . . happenings . . . so far!!!

Tomorrow night we are going to the bridge project gala . . . (We went to it last year and looked wonderful, and had a lot of fun! This year we both got new outfits to wear! And we are going to look so spectacular you will have to wear sunglasses to look at our pictures because we will be that dazzling!!!) This year they commissioned me to do some flower arrangements for the auction, along with all the baskets I do for them every year. It was a lot of fun. My main goal was to create things that were out of the ordinary and things that you just could go anywhere and buy.



So here is the top view of an ornament flower arrangement. I love the feathers and fun stuff in it.Of course, when I make something special for something else, everyone wants to buy that. I've had Several people want to buy this topiary . . . but I had to tell them I couldn't sell it, I had already sent the pictures of it off to the auction people for bridge project. I did make another one of these yesterday so hopefully the people who liked it will come back and buy the other one.

This next one is my masterpiece! This arrangement stands about 4 feet tall . . . the big glass is wonderful and it has 3 sets of lights in it . . . two up in the main part of the arrangement and then one in side the glass that lights up the snow flakes. I never knew I was such a good engineer . . . till I made this one. Maybe sleeping beside an engineer every night makes me think more logically. Humm . . . probably not . . . but it was fun to try and make you think that I was actually logical now!

Ok enough with Flowers lets talk about ME!!!
November 3rd was my 43 birthday!!! I love my birthday!!! It's like a day that is ALL ABOUT ME!!!! Isn't that Great!!!

So lets see first thing my mom and dad gave me a cake! Cute Cake! (Have I ever mentioned that I'm not a big cake fan . . . It's too sweet. Birthday Nachos would have been more appealing to me, but I guess it's hard to put a picture and write on nachos.)

So my mom and dad and Jessica and Tim all assembled to sing to me.
Their voices are so lovely I just had to sit back and listen to the dulcet tones!
So I knew that Tim and I were going to go to dinner. I had a gift card from my friend Kathy for a restaurant called "Cafe Terracotta" so I gave the gift card to Tim so he could make plans.

I didn't work that day so I was home and ready early. Tim and I were sitting on the sofa and his BFF James called and Tim invited him to dinner with us. But he said no.

So I said to Tim, "Why don't we just go now, that way we can just take our time and toodle around."

He said, "Jaqui wants to come over and bring you your birthday card. So we have to wait."

"Oh ok."

So Jaqui comes over, and she was all dressed up nice . . . typically when we are just popping in to one of our houses we wear comfy clothes, but I knew she had appointments that day so I assumed that she was still dressed up from them.

She gives me my card and my present! I got a tiara!!! I always knew I was a princess!

And She bought me some "pink" booze! She and I always drink PINK booze! We really don't care what kind it is, as long as it's pink. Fun fun! So since earlier Tim had asked James if he wanted to come to dinner with us, I thought it would be ok to invite Jaqui . . . She said that she would love to come.

So off to Cafe TerraCotta we go or so I thought!

In out usual fashion Jaqui and Blabbered the whole ride (Well, we weren't cussing but this is the only face dude I could find that was talking.) And then suddenly I realize we are not in down town Littleton, we are up by the mountains! Humm . . . someone is not telling me something. As usual I'm the last to know on just about everything!

When we finally stop, we are at The Fort! http://www.thefort.com/ Check it out, it was AMAZING!!! Presidents have eaten there!

When we got there the was a fire going in the fire pit outside, and the moon was big and bright, and there was this wonderfully haunting Indian music playing . . . (Big Sigh ~ I love my birthday, and I love wonderful surprises!!!

So we go in and Tim says there will be 4 of us. I say honey, "Me, you, and Jauqi, that's 3." He looks at the girl and says 4 again. Humm . . . .

They seat us, and Tim gets up and leaves the table. I ask Jaqui, who do you think it is, that is coming. She says she doesn't know . . . (Jaqui~ Liar liar pants on fire!!! ) She knew the whole time!

So we are sitting there and Jessica shows up Apparently, my wonderful Tim arranged with my Besties to come to my dinner . . . Have I told you lately how much I love this man. So when I invited Jaqui to dinner, she already was planning on coming, because Tim had arranged it with her.

This man makes me sooooooooo happy!~

He is so wonderful to me! So we ate a fantastic dinner, had rattle snake, and quail eggs cover in buffalo sausage, and drinks with Gun powder and tobacco and Tabasco in them. We had Elk and duck and buffalo . . . we drank a bottle of wine . . . and then they brought out some cheese cake which was so super yumm . . . that even though we were so full we had to eat it any way!!!

And so while they were singing and we were going to eat our cheese cake . . . They made me wear this

On my head! A dead coyote!!! Say it with me EEEEEEeeeeeeewwwwwww!!! So I put my princess tiara on it's dead head and they took my picture!

It was a wonderful birthday that I will never forget!!!

Thank you Tim, Jaqui and Jessica for making my night so fantastic!!!