The Wilkes' Week Blog

Birthday Breakfast

After having gone out to eat for lunch on my birthday I wasn't that hungry at dinner time to go out for birthday dinner. Jim had a Cub Scout meeting at 6 p.m. and Tessa was in a One Act play at school at 7:30 p.m. so there really wasn't time any way. So I picked up some chinese food and ate it on my bed watching TV while Jim had his meeting downstairs - and loved it!

I told Jim since we didn't go out for birthday dinner he could take me out for birthday breakfast on Saturday. We went downtown to Mother's Bistro.

The place was packed but we only had to wait about 5 minutes for a table since there were just 3 of us. I guess they knew it was my birthday!

The food was delicious.

I had the Belgian waffle with gingered pear compote and whip cream - yum!

Tessa had the blueberry pancakes which were delicious and huge - as big as the plate! Jim had a yummy egg scramble with basil, tomato and proscuitto.

And there was a message for the college kids on the mugs!

Maybe we can stretch my birthday out a little bit more.....

Birthday Lunch

A group of friends treated me to lunch on my birthday. I chose to go to a new restaurant I hadn't been to before, Paragon, down in the Pearl District.

Thank you to all my sweet friends who joined me!

Jeannena brought me her Queen Bee crown from her birthday party and insisted I was now the Queen Bee!

For lunch I had an amazing grilled cheese sandwhich and tomato soup - it's the restaurant's speciality!

I just thought the waterbottle looked so pretty with the sunlight!

After lunch we wandered around the Pearl a bit and into a few shops. We also got a yummy red velvet cupcake at Cupcake Jones for dessert!

It was a perfect way to spend part of my birthday - great food and friends!

50th Birthday

You have probably already seen these photos either on my Facebook page or on my other blog but I wanted to share them here too because this blog is our family history and I wanted it included.

On the Saturday before the kids went back to school we were going out to dinner for my birthday. Instead we ended up at my friend Shauna's house!

Except we weren't the only ones invited! About 50 of my friends were waiting for us!!

Jim, the kids and my Beach Babe friends had planned an amazing 50th birthday celebration for me!

We were greeted by this life size menu. Dinner was delicious thanks to the help of a lot of my friends!

A real Italian feast!!

My Beach Babes and a few other friends worked hard in the kitchen.

There were so many of my wonderful friends there to celebrate with me.

Jeanette, Daurie and April

My parents were there and neighbor Debbie and Hannah Osborne

Friends from church - Cherilyn, Pam and Tracy

and several of my CM friends too - Debby, Lee and Dustin Lazarone and friend AMy

Sweet friend Cathy and her husband Tom came to celebrate too.

I was so surprised to see Anne Vingelen, the boy's first grade teacher and her husband John there too - I was so excited!

The kids put on a great program. Logan and Cali did the 12 hours of mom's day.

On the first hour of mom’s day her to do list said….

One ten mile walk in a weighted vest

Two Webinars

Three Scrapbooks

Four care packages

Five diet cokes

Six grocery store visits

Seven trips to Anthropologie

Eight million pictures

Nine books to read

Ten recipes to cook

Eleven phone calls to kids

Twelve new blog posts

Their actions and words were hilarious.

Clark and Tessa entertained us with a skit about Jim and I in another 50 years! They had us pretty much pegged! Jim was complete with his plaid shirt, mustache and baseball cap and I looked very stylish in my pink satin robe and fur and 3 pairs of glasses!

Jim and my mom had a list of facts about Leigh Anne to share with everyone.

and Merrill sang the song Impossible Dream with some new words!

“To write the unwritable blog, to bake the unbakeable bread, to live in the Garden of Eden…..

Logan made everyone cry when he sang a sweet song from Fiddler on the Roof called “Mama, a Rainbow.” The words start out, “What do you give to the lady who has given all her life and love to you? …..What can I give you, what will your present be? Mama young and beautiful, always young and beautiful. That’s the Mama I’ll always see. That’s for Mama with love from me.”