40th birthday

The girls and I headed down to Charlottesville to celebrate Becky’s 40th birthday on July 10th. We got a babysitter on Saturday and mom, Becky and I had a lovely spa day with facilas, massages, and mani/pedis. It was a day of pampering 🙂

On Sunday we went to King Family Vineyard, where they have polo matches during the summer on Sundays. A few of Becky’s friends came as well and we had a picnic dinner with wine from the Vineyard. It was an absoltuly beautiful evening – the perfect temperature and lot of friends and family celebrating.

I also had time to visit with some friends while I was down there. I met Samantha son, Abe, who is just stinking cute! He’s one of the happeist babies I’ve ever met. And we also visited with Sarah and Sophie and Lexi were reunited. Lexi has a bearded dragon, which Sophie fell immediatly in love with and didn’t put down the entire visit.

Me and Abe, the happiest baby in the world
Sophie & Lexi

I headed back to Maryland on Monday evening, and the girls stayed for the rest of the week for Nana and Pappap summer camp. We all had lovely weeks 🙂

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Last weekend we celebrated Dave’s 40th birthday by spending a weekend in Rock Hall with a few friends. John, Crystal, and Bella came up from DC along with Joe, and Rebecca, John, Ava, and Emma came from Philly, along with Walt. We had a mini raft-up with our boat and Walt’s boat. There was no wind, so we motored right to our favorite spot in Swan Creek and spent the afternoon swimming and grilling. The weather was perfect!

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It’s official. I’m 40. While I competed in the last two triathlons in the 40-44 age group, I knew I was still in my 30s! (despite what was written on the back of my calf). Alas, it’s no longer true.

Because I believe birthdays should be a weeks long celebration, that’s exactly what I did!

My birthday present from Dave was a violin. I’ve been renting one since I started taking lessons about three years ago. It’s pretty cheap and I since I think I’m going to stick with it, I wanted to get a nicer one. My teacher recommended a violinmaker in Philly and that’s where I went. His typical clients are definitely more along the lines of professional musicians, so I think he was a little surprised to see me, but also super nice and helpful. His name is Christopher Germain and here he is putting the finishing touches on my violin!

Later in the week Doug and Vicki hosted a big family birthday party at their house. It was a combined birthday celebration because Dick and Joan both turned 70 recently, and then there are the slo of July birthdays. In addition to me, Mom, Becky, Vicki and Maithili all have birthdays in July.

  • This is 40!! Which naturally calls for a tiara.
  • Becky and me
  • Joan & Dick both turned 70 recently

After the party Mom, Dad, Becky, Arian, Doug, Vicki, Quinn, Carley, and me and the girls all went to Eagle Rock in the mountains of PA. It was really pretty and relaxing. Here are a few shots from our stay there. It’s the first time I’ve ever tried the paddle board and it was super fun.

We were also there for mom’s actual birthday. She turned 64.

My actual birthday was pretty low key, which is exactly how I wanted it. Dave and the girls turned our dining room into a French Bistro and they made a delicious dinner. Here’s the menu. It was all delicious and capped off an excellent few weeks of birthday celebrations!

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