Today is Diane’s birthday.  Happy birthday Diane !  Wonderful, sweet , beautiful love of my life ! 

Gabe had the great idea to get tattoos in honor of Diane’s birthday.   We opted for the kind made with sharpies… they don’t hurt as much. We wanted to have them to show her at breakfast this morning, but there was a catch. I was going to the Victor Wooten concert last night.. and Gabe was going to be in bed by the time I got home. We came up with a great evil plan. Gabe drew his tattoo and took a picture of it with his camera.   He left me this note by the back door when I came in.

This morning both Gabe and I came down this morning super sleepy.. We both pulled out our ’ink’ to wish Diane a happy birthday…   

Diane thought it was pretty cool… I was so intent on having them match that I didn’t even realize that mine should have said ’Diane’ or ’Wife’ until mid day. You know you married the right women when she doesn’t even point out such a goofy mix-up !

I took Gabe in to school and noticed that the temperature outside was 55 at 7:30.. that’s amazing.. All the melting snow is creating this cool fog everywhere.  .

It was raining a bit, but Diane and I wanted to take a birthday walk. We took the doggies up on the catamount trail. It was surreal weather.. probably in the 60’s.. but more than a foot of snow on the ground.

It was so warm that I  couldn’t resist the urge to jump in the honey hollow creek.

 I had to slide down in the snow.. Diane stayed up above.. so I had to take this picture by hanging my camera on a tree.. this is the only G rated one that came out.  

That water was cold …

When we got back to the house I noticed that the inside and outside temperatures were the same. 63 in April with all this snow is a cool combination.

Diane went to Marci for a massage/reiki..while I stayed home and worked a bit.  around 3 Diane and Gabe came home… Around 5 a bunch of friends showed up spontaneously to help us celebrate Diane’s birthday !  Nate, Julia, Abbot and Jen were there. Jen made a cake and I had one made at Chef’s Corners.. We had lots of cake..   I put 5 candles on each…   a group of 2 and a group of 3… the prime factors of Diane’s age.. 48… she’s proud that she’s 4 times older than Gabe.. how often does that happen ?

Gabe’s lighting the Sam candle

Marie showed up for a few minutes on her way up to see Evan . I made him a special piece of cake for her to take… It had a big layer of mustard between theslices.. I know he liked the mustard filled twinkie I made for him before.

It’s so nice.. our house is full of flowers  for dianes brithday.. Here she is talking to her dad.. with the flowers her parents sent.

OK.. we’re going to take Diane out for dinner now.. so I better get going.. Happy Birthday Diane…   We all love you so much.. Sam we’re thinking of you today, my son..
-me