Its my Birthday... AND my Mothers... and others.

How cool is that? I was born on my mothers birthday. At least I was born in the morning so my mother wasn't in labor all day on her birthday :-). I was born at 6:00am and as my father says "as the sun came up". Perhaps that is why my favorite color is yellow. I must admit that during my teenage years it wasn't quite as fun to share my birthday (who isn't selfish when they are a teenager?) but now it's great to be a novelty. Nathan, how did u feet sharing ur birthday with Bethanie when u were a teenager? (Nathan was out of the house by the time Bethanie turned old enough to be selfish so her opinion doesn't count. *big grin*)

Akiko's birthday is on the 7th (coworker) , but she was born in Japan so we decided we were really born on the same day since it's already the 7th over there. We got to go out to lunch together with Marcia as well since her birthday was on the 1st. And Arvids is on the 31st! We are a May structures group (that is if we get the big job at the end of May and I don't get laid off for blogging too much).

And for my birthday, my garden decided to grow! I'm so happy! Here are my squash plants.
The two on the right with the lighter leaves are volunteers from my compost pile I had there during the winter. I'm assuming they are squash.... they are some sort of gourd. I have THREE squash growing (the three female flowers I pollinated with the ONE male flower I had... That flower sure got around :-) and I'm going to take them up to Provo this weekend to share with Emily. She always shares her garden goodness with me so I thought I'd reciprocate.

Here r my tomato plants.
I've got a couple getting ready to turn red but they won't be ready to take up to see Emily. The plant front and center is actually a pepper plant that made it through the winter... I cut it back and all of a sudden all the thick stems are COVERED in leaves. I also planted 2 new ones so we'll see if it's better to replant or save the old.

And here is the plant Birgit gave me when she moved. I thought it was kinda ugly...
But now it bloomed! the flowers are SOO pretty! I LOVE it.

So... this really wasn't a post about my birthday cuz I wanted to post about my garden instead. U'll just have to get over it. I'm not really celebrating it until this weekend in Provo and even though Emily is ill (don't worry, she hasn't touched any pigs like Nathan did), we will have some fun.

PS. Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo and as I was writing a comment to my sister, I realized I had boycotted it... I had Chinese Stir Fry for lunch (don't tell Emily but it was made with turkey meat and had celery in it), and a French Dip Sandwich for Dinner. :-)