Monday, May 24, 2010

Another Year Older

Yes, today is my birthday! And I have been celebrating since Friday!! I had a wonderful old Great Aunt Frances who believed that special occasions should last longer than 1 day, so I took a page from her book this year!

Becky kicked the weekend off with her Martini Happy Hour on Friday. Just a few of my closest work friends - perfect. Then Saturday I had a long lunch with another 2 bff's - Terri and Charmaine. We spent the afternoon downtown at Duncan's Pub. Hours of good food, tons of gossip, and so much laughing my face hurt when I got home!

Sunday I woke up early and snuck out of the house alone for a few hours. I am a text-book "only-child" so I need to have a little quiet, personal time every once in awhile. I hopped in the car, cranked up the stereo, and went for a long drive along the Northumberland Shore - cottage country! I had the camera and stopped lots of different places along the way, happily snapping shots. I had some great shots..........or so I thought. But when I got home 3 hours later and downloaded them -------none of them turned out. They all were way over-exposed. I guess I had a setting wrong. There are too many darn buttons and dials on this camera. But even so, I had a great morning.

Then I grabbed the family and took them for a drive for the afternoon. I headed in the opposite direction and took them along the Bay of Fundy shore to Parrsboro and we had a seafood supper on the wharf.

Today was the BIG DAY. It really has been a perfect birthday weekend which ended with a family dinner and of course cake. I finally got the deck furniture re-built this morning, so I spent the afternoon sitting in the lounger with Millie and a book. I couldn't have asked for a better birthday weekend, or better friends!

13 comments:

  1. Wow!!! sounds as though you had a Great Birthday, Kim....so much deserved...Love the good food and drinks myself....
    Good wishes for many more Birthdays to come...

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  2. Happy Birthday! You have a lot more energy than me. The wind blew all day, but has finally died down. It just wears me out!

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  3. Happy Birthday Kim! It sounds like you really had a nice one! I love your lounge for the deck! It's nice you found time to lounge especially on your birthday! The trick is to do things like this all year long right? Here's to a wonderful year ahead for you! Cathy G p.s. notice I am being polite and not asking which birthday it was LOL!!

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  4. Happy Birthday! Spreading it over three days is a good thing!! You're a clever girl!! Hope you have many more!!!!!!!!

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  5. Happy B'day to a fellow Victoria's birthday person. While I like the name Victoria I'm glad my mom named me Susan. i have been following your blog via a couple of oher blogs but wanted to post something when I saw we have the same birthday. I live outside of Ktchener Waterloo but have ties to NS as I went to Acadia. I had a great day today and hope to did too. Cheers,Susan S. another rug hooker

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  6. Hey Susan, Not only do we share a birthday -- I went to Acadia too!

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  7. Happy Birthday Kim, so happy you celebrated for several days. Good idea.
    I love the Lounge on your deck. Looks so comfortable.

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  8. Happy Belated Birthday fellow Gemini!!!!

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  9. Happy Birthday Kim! I'm sure you had a lot of great pics... but the one of little Millie on that big lounge chair is sooooo cute! :-)

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  10. Happy belated birthday Kim! Also, thanks so much for your sweet comment in response to my post about Rosie. Oh.... the Bay of Fundy.. We are going to be up that way in June, and that's one of the places I'm hoping we get to. So excited!

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  11. Hey sweet Kim I am so sorry I missed your birthday...I am glad to read that you had a really nice one.
    Sorry about your pictures...that happens to me and I don't have a big expensive camera.lol
    Happy belated Birthday honey.
    Love
    Maggie

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  12. Kim ~
    Happy belated birthday and many, many more.
    Pug hugs :)
    Lauren

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  13. Happy belated birthday! Sounds like you celebrated properly. Here's to a great year ahead...cheers! Martie

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