Sunday, March 13, 2005

Derek turns 29


wow! how the years do march on. derek turned 29.

as an observer, i felt like this was a very different birthday since he is a dad now and the usual "birthday boy gets the day off of all responsibilities" did not really apply.

for me, i usually try to surprise him with a great gift for his birthday or a great party. i offered to throw him a bbq but he said he wanted to do the traditional Pizza Hut party. then he thought a bbq might be nice, but i decided that i'm crazy to think i can host a bbq when i'm tired and diedre is only 2 weeks old...so i said, Pizza Hut it is!

as for the gift, for the first time, i felt like "i'm not working...how do i buy him a gift?" even though we fully share money it just seemed weird to buy him a gift with our money this time for some reason.

i also wanted to buy him stuff that he needed to pick out, so i decided to just tell him that we could go shopping and that i would buy him a harness or rope for climbing.

i still bought him a card. the most fun thing was buying him his first birthday card FROM diedre. it was really cute and it made both of our hearts jump :)

3 comments:

Jessi said...

Happy Birthday Derek!
Isn't it amazing how things change once the kids come?...We always do the 'buy your own gift' with eachother now cause we want to make sure the money goes where it should - and there's always a million other things to spend money on!!
Looks like a fun time!

Anonymous said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEREK! Only one year now until the big 3-0.

Jodi

derek salmon said...

thanks guys,
derek