Yes, I am one of those who has a birthday week.  It's just fun to milk it if the opportunity presents itself.  Your birthday is the only time during the year that you get to celebrate you... so why not!??!

Mine fell on Good Friday this year, which was also coincidentally a company holiday for us... so I had the day off.  Mom came in that afternoon and we had the whole weekend with her - through Easter Sunday. 

I kept things low-key again this year... I tinkered with the idea of doing a bowling party at Strike City, but I just couldn't get into party mode.  Birthdays still aren't the same after losing Dad.  Maybe they will never be.  But this still didn't feel like the year for a big to-do.  It just felt like the year for family... and that felt perfect.  We took a few pics after our Easter lunch at the golf club on Sunday:

 

 

At work on Tuesday, Michelle had organized an office lunch outing for me at Greek Isles - I LOVE that place!  Bob treated everyone and it was nice to have a little group camaraderie for the afternoon.  A couple of the girls also gave me few a treats when I came in on Monday... and Kara hung a "word art" bday sign on my desk, which has now turned into a word scramble for passersby.  I've seen strange phrases on there towards the end of the week like "Benji h!ny rad thy papy".  (Let me know if any of you think of any good ones that I can put up there!)

On a different note, we've been doing a TON of work on the house... which really started with an outside landscaping project about 2 months ago (but turned into MUCH more), so I'll post some progress pictures on everything we've done with that soon.  I've gotten behind on my blogging and I've promised myself to get back into it - but it's been for good reason!  Kevin even says he might start a guest blog section on here at some point, too... to add his input in our daily lives.  Stay tuned!