I’m in my prime again – I turned 31 this past Friday. I had a great birthday weekend! Our tradition at Logos is to take coworkers out to lunch on their birthdays, so I had a great lunch at Lemon Grass Café (Thai) on Friday afternoon. On Friday evening, we had friends over for dinner, with whom we watched the latest VeggieTales video with my daughters, and then played a rousing game of Settlers of Catan!

Julie and the girls took me out for a birthday dinner on Saturday night. It was my choice of restaurants, so I picked On Rice – I do love Thai food. We started with three inexpensive appetizers, hoping to find some things that the girls would enjoy (we did). We followed that up with spicy soup (for me), garlic chicken (for Julie), and fried rice (for the girls). Our waitress found out that it was my birthday, so we were serenaded with the birthday song, followed by complimentary fried bananas and coconut ice cream, which I’d never had before, but were delicious. It couldn’t have been better.

On Sunday, we went to church, and then had Julie’s family over for a great dinner. I even got a few more presents, including two Settlers of Catan expansions, one that extends the game to support more than four players, and another that adds the Cities and Knights rules. I can’t wait to play!

On my way home from work on Friday, I stopped by Best Buy to spend some birthday money – I bought a nice portable CD player that plays MP3 files, so that I can record a number of albums on one CD. I got a car kit with it for free, so I was able to rock out to another of my birthday presents on my way to work on Monday – the latest Switchfoot album, Nothing is Sound.

Thanks to everyone who made my birthday weekend so much fun!