Birthday Girl

Speaking of birthdays, mine was on Tuesday (the 22nd).  Brannon and my parents organized a family gathering at our house that evening - I finally got my chinese food fix!  We had an assortment of dishes from P.F. Chang's and Mom and Dad made a special trip to a Thai food place to order my favorite Thai dish - pad thai.  Dad picked up an Italian creme cake from Central Market (yum!) and Brannon opened a bottle of Schramsburg to celebrate.  It was quite a party!  The list of gifts received included a pancake pen, Star Wars pancake molds, a "how to make tamales" class at Sur La Table, gift certificates to REI (for winter weather gear since we are going to Canada with the kids in February), and three special Christmas ornaments picked out just for me by Madeleine and James (they picked for Charlotte, who had little to say on the matter).  I ate WAY too much cake, but it was a good day!