Happy Birthday to Kate!!!

Kate's birthday was yesterday. Her first birthday as a married woman. :-)

We both took the day off from work - though I still went to my classes in the morning. While I was at class, our new dryer finally arrived and was installed. Yay! Now we have a matching set. Kate wasted no time in trying the thing out. She gets excited by the strangest things. ;-)

When I got back from class, we lazed around for a bit before having lunch (nothing special - just mac & cheese). Then we took a nice long walk down Power Trail to King Soopers for a few items. The weather yesterday was loverly! It easily hit 70 degrees with a pleasent breeze.

When we got home, we rested a bit before heading out to dinner at Red Lobster. We still had a gift card from the wedding that we'd been waiting to use. Kate had a stuffed shrimp & grilled shrimp skewers combo while I had a decidedly unhealthy batter-fried fish and chips. Pretty tasty!

Afterwards, we stopped by one of the Coldstone Creamery stores for desert. I had the Apple Pie a la Coldstone and Kate had (I think) the Cherry Loves Cheesecake. (I'm pretty sure that's what it was - it had cheesecake and cherries in it anyway.) ;-)

Lastly, we headed back home to watch Newsies on DVD, which I borrowed from the library earlier in the week. I'd never seen the Disney musical before but it's apparently one of Kate's favorites. It's very good. I highly recommend it.

I got Kate a handful of birthday presents: some candy, a few scented candles, a card game called Xactica, and the movie Dave on DVD (another favorite film of hers). My mother sent her a woman's study Bible and a gold cross necklace. Both sets of parents sent Kate some fun money. She also got a number of cards, from a couple local friends, from both sets of parents, and from her college friend Heather.

All in all, she seemed to have a good day. Hooray! :-)

So Happy Birthday to my wonderful, lovely wife!



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