My birthday weekend

Beware - this is a loooooooooooooooog entry.

Well, it happened. I turned the BIG 4-0! It's really a strange thing to write that. I certainly don't feel like it and definitely don't ACT like it! It's been a fun celebration, though. It started out on Friday night. It was our ward Trunk or Treat. The kids dressed up and played the games and ran around and had a great time. We left about 8:15 and got home. While the kids got ready for bed I got my pj's on and headed over to my little shin dig at Natalie's. My friends are so awesome. They wanted to throw me a party, but I have this thing about making people feel obligated to come to something for me, so I chose to just have a very low key party with just a few friends. Unfortunately I don't have pictures of who was there because I let Natalie take the pictures and her camera didn't work all that well. I do, however, have the beautiful presentation of the food and me opening my present. It was Natalie Benedict, Alisha Bayless, Heather Muir, Jolene Chase and Yvette Flores. We all came in our pj's and played games. It was a really fun time! And those girl's are the sweetest. I'm on Weight Watcher's and so everything was low cal treats. I didn't even cheat! Such a help! Okay, the gift was the funniest ever! They all know my love of the Twilight series books. They gave me a basket of low fat treats, a movie ticket (to be used to go see the midnight showing of the movie when it comes out with them - What?! Midnight????!), a candle, a t-shirt that says 'Team Edward'...wait it gets better....AND a premade scrapbook to put all my pictures of this weekends celebration, but there are cut-outs of "Twilight, the movie"! I laughed so hard I almost broke a rib. I think I'm 15! Those girls are too cute. Thank you for making my birthday so special, girls! So, I got home at about 2:30 am and then got up Saturday morning and my friend Heather Hanks had planned a full day of scrapbooking and massages. Ahhhhh. We had such a nice day together. And the massage.....gosh, I haven't had a professional massage in years. Thank you so much Heather for such a fun and relaxing day! So, now today is my actual birthday. Kirk brought home a beautiful bouquet of flowers to surprise me. I was surprised! He already got me my laptop. I didn't expect anything else. We were planning to go to dinner tonight, but then were asked by the stake presidency to go out on our main street as a family and hold YES on Prop 8 signs for about an hour as a family home evening together. They asked the whole stake to line up from the fwy and go as long as we could. It started out a little slow, but then it became a pretty long line and was a fun experience. Earlier today I went out and bought a leash to put on Devin because otherwise I think he just may have been killed. That boy will run out into traffic on a dime. So, that made things a lot easier. We had a lot of honking in support and a couple of unkind hand gestures. I'm surprised at how people do those things even when kids are around. Oh well, we mostly were supported. It was a good experience. Most of these pictures were taken before everyone got there.. Then we went to dinner and came home. What a great 40th birthday. And I still have this Saturday to look forward to having dinner with my friends Allyson and Colleen. I feel very lucky to have such wonderful and supportive friends and family. Love you guys!