Birthday

I had a party! My first one in years! We went to Outback and had a great time! Evidence of fun:

Not a good picture of Ted, but the other ones weren't great of Tara (Sorry Ted).

Cutest picture of Jeremy and Denise! They were able to come at the last minute due to a cancellation of his family's Christmas (bad weather).

Eric and Nicky. We're losing more friends to far away places. They're moving to India in February!

I have to post this because it happens to be a pretty good picture of me; Jon is not smiling because he's swallowing--whoops! (Notice the beautiful sapphire necklace that Jon got me!)

I'm pretty happy at this point--with a tummy full of steak!

Part of my birthday present from Ted and Tara. I figured I'd model it while they sang "Happy Birthday" to me. Stylish.

Ted's operatic "Happy Birthday."

We had a wonderful cake from Arnie's while sipping my favorite champagne and a great late harvest reisling. I didn't expect the champagne to taste so wonderful with the chocolate cake; perhaps it was just the birthday euphoria. Perhaps not.