"Bennett Bunch": It's My Birthday...

Monday, March 24, 2008

It's My Birthday...

(Kinda crazy Ryan's is the 21st and mine is the 24th)

Well today was my Birthday!! Wow, It's weird how the older you get the less exciting your birthdays are.

Ryan left for work before the kids and I woke up. So, the kids didn't know it was my birthday until nearly 6pm tonight when Ryan got home. He asked if they had sung Happy Birthday to me. They were kind of confused "it's not Mommy's Birthday." After he convinced them today was my birthday they sang Happy Birthday. It was really sweet.

We played a couple of hands of "Frenzie" a card game. The kids love this game and is usually their first pick for game time. Then we went out to dinner to "Texas Roadhouse." I love that place! Ryan and I split a steak and the kids split a kids cheeseburger. I think Madalyn liked eating the peanuts and throwing the shells on the ground. It was cute, I didn't know shwe liked peanuts that much.

It was nice to hear from family on my birthday and even a good friend from our last ward called this evening. Thanks everyone, it was nice to hear from you.

7 comments:

Rachel Holloway said...: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I love Texas Roadhouse too!! YUMMMMMM.....

It IS funny that kids don't pick up on birthdays--I don't know if my kids even KNOW I have a birthday because we have been gone the last 2 birthdays...oh well! :)

Hope your day was great!; March 25, 2008 at 7:03 AM
The Bergquist Fam said...: Happy Birthday the morning after! Sorry I didn't say it yesturday, I knew it was coming but couldn't remember the exact day. I'm glad you got to go out and have a fun evening!; March 25, 2008 at 7:56 AM
jmholloway said...: Happy Birthday Heather! Wish we lived closer so we could celebrate birthdays together. I am glad that you had a good one.

Mindi :); March 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM
On Our List said...: Happy Bithday!!!! It sounds like you had a fun birthday...I love Texas Roadhouse too. For some reason the one up here doesn't let you throw the peanuts on the floor. I sometimes do it anyway because it reminds me of the ones at home.

Love ya,
Sharon

P.S. Erika thinks her haircut is okay...she says she doesn't have long hair like the princess anymore but I convienced her it was still long enough that she has princess hair.; March 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Janine said...: Happy late birthday Heather!! Those quotes on your sidebar are TOO CUTE :) Thanks for sharing. Also, thanks for the link to those free blog layouts... I'm just now figuring this all out. Hope to see you next month at the stampin' up get together :); March 25, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Steven & Adrienne said...: Happy Birthday! Sorry it is late! I love the Texas Roadhouse also...and the peanuts are fun to eat! Did you get to sit on a saddle as they sang Happy Birthday? Sharon did and it was hillarious! Anyways as your kids get older they will realize it is your birthday and then it is fun to get the cute little b-day cards!; March 26, 2008 at 3:11 PM
robyncreates said...: Where do you get your blog layouts? Ryan doesn't like our-says it looks like alien hands. whatever...happy birthday though!!! :); March 26, 2008 at 8:09 PM

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Favorite Quote

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived. " — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Quotes by Madalyn

One day as we sat around Meme’s table eating lunch and talking Madalyn was telling us about stuff that happened “a LONG LONG time ago” according to her. I made a comment about her being so old and she replied “Mom, I don’t hurt.” I’m not sure where she got the idea that if you are old that means you hurt. ~ Jan. 2008

Latter in that same conversation Meme said she thought Madalyn looked like her Grandma Bennett. Madalyn replied “I think Grandma Bennett looks like you Meme. You both have tangled hair.” Meme and Grandma both have curly hair which is what Madalyn was talking about. ~ Jan. 2008

When we were in the car Madalyn was singing a song. These are the words she sang: “…and so my KNEES ARE GRAY…” I was trying to keep from laughing out loud. If you are not sure why this is funny I will tell you. She was singing “I am a Child of God” and the words should have been “…and so my NEEDS ARE GREAT…” It was so cute and I didn’t want to correct her at the time. ~ Feb. 2008

The other night after Ethan went to sleep Madalyn and I stayed up talking for a little bit. She looked at me and then Ethan and back at me and said “I love that little guy.”
It was so sweet and sincere. ~ March 2008

Here is another one about singing. Madalyn loves to sing primary songs as loud as she can off the balcony. I heard her outside on the balcony yesterday singing “Follow the Prophet.” Here’s what she sang “Adam was a prophet first THING that we know…” instead of “Adam was a prophet first ONE that we know…” This is a song we have worked on but she always reverts back to the words she likes better. ~ March 2008