Happy Birthdays!

HBD to me!

Tom and I both celebrated birthdays recently (on two consecutive Saturdays). We now are both on the other side of a half of a century. 

My favorite time to celebrate my birthday is not on the weekends (surprisingly). I'm not sure why but it just feels like you need to do something more because it is the weekend. Well, we certainly didn't do anything more for either of our birthdays this year as we were knee deep in our kids' activities/plans. But, I think both Tom and I were happy to let them do their own thing. 

Hailey had just had surgery on her mouth the day before my birthday so she wasn't in any shape to do anything special the next morning. Austen was still coming off a high from winning a big soccer playoff game the night before and had practice that day (and then went out and celebrated with a late lunch with his teammates). I did play paddle tennis in the morning and then ran home to take Peyton and her friend to their tumbling class. The afternoon was kind of quiet. We had all the kids home to open presents and then Peyton was off to a Halloween party and the rest of us went to dinner (Hailey did not eat). 

On Tom's birthday, Austen had an early playoff game up north so it was up early and then off to watch more soccer. The afternoon was much like mine and pretty low key. We had everyone home to open presents and then we all headed out to an early dinner (Hailey still did not eat) so Austen could go to a party that we dropped him off at on our way home. 

Pretty low key birthdays during a crazy few weeks of sports and activities for us but Tom and I both agreed that we wouldn't want it any other way. Happy Birthday to us!