Birthday Weekend

Today (Sunday) is my birthday! Normally Paul and I would have had a date night (probably yesterday) and gone out to a nice dinner and maybe a movie or something but obviously that can't happen this year. So we got take-out from Jak's Grill, a nice steak house in Issaquah. I got the skewers. It's skewers with filet and NY strip with Moroccan spices and a yummy gorgonzola sauce.

I set the table fancy (except not the china) just for the heck of it, since I never use most of that stuff.

Other than that, I just spent the day doing laundry and doing some purging/organizing.

Yesterday we went to Paul's parents for dinner and to help them put all their Christmas stuff back up on the garage shelves. We took Kona for a nice long walk on the neighborhood trail and played a game before dinner. It was a nice, low-key birthday weekend.

My favorite Costco cake. They don't make the huge sheet cakes anymore (not that we need one that big, obviously) so we had this smaller round one. I snapped this after I already blew the candles out, oops.

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