Happy Birthday, Jenna!

Tuesday was Jenna's birthday and it has been our tradition since the girls were little for me to take them to lunch. She decided she wanted to go to sushi and we went to one of the local casinos that has a sushi restaurant. We had edamame for an appetizer and then had our sushi rolls. I don't get to go to sushi very often and ths was really good! It didn't have too much rice in it (which is one complaint I have about sushi rolls....they have more rice than other fillings).


Afterwards, we went and saw "Mamma Mia". It was really cute and the music was fun, even though I am not a huge ABBA fan.


Tim was working so we are doing Jenna's birthday dinner later this week, but Jenna went to dinner with friends anyway so it worked out okay. Actually, it ended up that my annual "Pride and Prejudice" night was scheduled for that night so I got to go to that as well. A group of us have been getting together for at least 10 or more years to watch the A&E version of "Pride and Prejudice". We always have tea sandwiches, fruit, scones, as well as various other treats and then this year we had trifle for dessert. It started out that we were attending a local Shakespeare event, but it got too expensive at least 10 years ago so we switched it to "Pride and Prejudice". I forgot to take my camera, but I am hoping to get some pictures from the woman who hosted the event. She is originally from England and lived near where they filmed the mini-series so she has a lot of stories from around there. Her mother was there as well and so we got a lot of background. It was so much fun and it is really great to introduce someone new to the joy of "Pride and Prejudice" every year. This year about 14 women attended and several had never seen or read it so that was awesome.

Our Motorcycle Trip

Since Tim and I missed going away a few weeks ago, we decided to participate in a Police Memorial Run this last weekend that wasn't too far away from us. We rode over with two other guys who are in Tim's motorcycle club on Friday and then participated in the run on Saturday. I don't know how many bikes participated, but I heard anywhere from 2000-5000. It was amazing to see all those bikes lined up and the whole freeway was closed off for the run so it was just motorcycles as far as you could see in front and in back of you. I tried to get some good pictures, but it is really hard to take pictures when you are riding and can't really see through the LCD screen. It was a really beautiful ride and then afterwards there was a big barbeque with all kinds of vendors of people selling things.


Dinner was a bucket of seafood....yum


Bikes getting ready to take off


Bikes leaving....all you could see were bikes in front and in back of you

That night we went to visit our friends that we tailgate with for football games(they also own the parents of Duncan) and had dinner and stayed the night with them. We made plans to go to the first game of the year in just a few weeks. I can't believe that football season starts in just a couple of weeks! To me, that is the beginning of the holiday season with all of the birthdays and holidays we celebrate in the fall through Christmastime.

Yesterday I spent the whole day catching up....unpacking, cleaning up, laundry. Why does it seem like when you leave for a weekend, it will take the whole week just to catch up? Today is Jenna's birthday so I will take her for her birthday lunch and to go see "Mamma Mia" and tonight I am doing my annual "Pride and Prejudice" night (yes, we watch the 5 hour version!) with friends. Tim isn't home so we will do Jenna's birthday dinner later another night.

The Girls' Trip to the River

THe girls took a trip with the church youth group to the river the other day and Sammy took a couple of pictures I thought I would share.