Happy Birthday, My Love!

Another birthday has come and gone this year for My Love-- my one and only true love-- my love of my life-- can you feel the love?  I love this man!!!

On my "Before-my-oldest-leaves-to-college-bucket-list" was the dream to attend a broadway show as a family.

So back in May, my husband called and said "I am standing in line for something.  I think I am about number 20."

I had just heard that morning that ticket sales for Wicked started that day.  Could it be…. is he telling me my dream is finally coming true???

"Yea?…. in line for what?" I asked.

"I wanted to surprise you and give you tickets to Wicked for your birthday next month, and then the performance is near my birtday, and I was thinking it could be both of our birthday presents…. but I need help picking out seats.  What do you think?"

Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeee is what I think.  You are a genious and thank you very much for making my dreams come true.  That is just the kind of guy you are.  In the words of Glenda the good witch "I think you're wonderful."

He went ahead and bought the tickets then on my birthday he sent me and the girls on a little riddle and rhyme to figure out what they were… and now the time has come to pass and we enjoyed our evening together recently.  It was wonderful and amazing and it was worth every penny.  

And have you ever been to the Orpheum?  

 Oh my.  It is magical!

So magical that it at least got a half-smile from my youngest teen.  By the end of the show, the smile was much bigger.  This picture is when we are walking in and she still isn't sure about the show.

Built in the 1920's, there is so much character in every detail.  The giant chandelier and the seats and walls are so ornate.

The only picture we could take of the actual production.  This is what you see before it starts: a gigantic dragon and map to Oz.

Recenty, on the anniversary of the day of his hatching, since we had done the big celebrating a few days earlier, we had a quiet evening at home playing games and football and eating his favorite foods.  We had Australian Meat Pie and Trifle (favorite foods of his after living there for 2 years).  I also had close friends and family each send 5 words that described him, then I made a Wordie.

Have you ever heard of a Wordie?  It is a word "cloud".  It takes all the words and then it makes them into a cloud, the biggest words are the words that showed up the most, the smallest showed up the least.  So if 5 people used "good sense of humor" to describe him, and 2 people said "organized," good sense of humor would be the bigger word.  You can make your own wordie here: http://www.wordle.net/

Happy Birthday, Hon- it was a great day for a great guy!!!