Birthday Memories

Happy Birthday to me (and Chaotic Cranium)! It is hard to believe that I am in Texas for this one but I am . . . yet one more without Sean. This is a hard one because today we are the same age. Hard for me to grasp and swallow because it was never suppose to be this way. We were never suppose to be the same age and in 2006 we are. I have always struggled with the fact that Sean will forever be young in all his photos while I continue to age and wrinkle. We were suppose to grow old together and give each other a hard time. Here is where I have been the last 32 birthdays . . .

1974 Scott & White Hospital Temple, Texas
1975-1992 Eddy, Texas
1993-1996 College Station, Texas
1997 Fort Benning, Georgia
1998 Eddy, Texas
1999-2000 Fort Campbell, Kentucky
2001-2005 Germany

Yes, even last year I was "home" to celebrate with friends in Freihung at the Sportsplatz . . . I was back to packout and say good bye to my life as a military wife. Here are a couple of photos of my special day . . .

Celebrating at The Outback in 2001 . . . YES, there used to be a real Outback Steakhouse in Wurzburg . . . leave it to us to find it. I was off the exit you take to go to the BIG PX in Wurzburg. Sadly, it changed names a zillion times and never tasted as good but let me tell you it was the best and tasted just like it does in the US. We always wondered why it closed because it was always full of Americans!


Turning the big 30 in 2004! I always thought I would have children by the age of 30 . . . Colin was born 21 days before the big 30 . . . Sean left 3 weeks later for Iraq. This was the last birthday we would celebrate together.

I am sure this year will be very low key . . . where do I want to go eat tonight? I guess I should ask where can we go eat and Colin will act nice? He has such a short attention span and waiting for food is not a priority to him.