Another year older?

Funny how each birthday is a day to celebrate getting one more year older.  I sure don't feel like I'm getting older, so I think I'm just going to stop counting, because who needs to know right?  It was a great day though, the kids let me just hang out and not do anything.  Bret brought me breakfast in bed!  He made me french toast and everything!  What a great husband I have.  Amber made me my favorite cake, which is carrot cake with homemade cream cheese frosting.  It was very yummy!  We went to Famous Daves for dinner, which I love!  LOVE the ribs!  We had ordered the notch-yo everyday nacho plate for an appitizer, and it had some jalepeno peppers on it.  Bret ate one and was pretty taken aback by the heat!  Now I have to back up a bit and explane something, we went to Olive Garden a couple of months ago and Bret told Keaton if he tried the hot pepper, (the yellow ones in the salad) he would buy him a new DS game.  Long story short, he ate it.  So he got his game, but it was a Wii game that he'd been wanting.  He said it was very spicy!  Sam and Ben had the same deal, but they wouldn't eat it.  So back to Famous Daves.  Keaton said if he ate another one could he get a DS game.  Bret said "Sure, but I'm warning you Keaton, these are a lot hotter than those other kind you ate."  So it sat there on his plate, until we were almost done, he kept looking at it, and with out a word he popped it in his mouth.  We were all looking at him with horrifide looks on our faces I'm sure.  He chewed and chewed, and his eyes got really big, and they started to water pretty bad and he was looking for a drink, but his was gone, so I gave him my water, and he gulped it down as fast as he could.  He got it down and recovered quite well,  Bret couldn't believe he had eaten it.  So after we were done, we went to Target and he picked out his DS game.  Bret said,"No more hot peppers for games though, it's not a challenge for you anymore!" 

I got a zebra pillow-pet.  I had given one to Bret for his birthday, it was a moose.  So I guess his moose needed a mate. 

We also had the Iowa Jazz Band State Championship last Tuesday.  Harlan has placed 1st the last 4 years!  Quite an accomplishment.  They played so well and did they're best!  Amber had a feature solo on the first song and she did very well.  I could tell she was very nervous and didn't quite get a couple of the high notes but it sounded great non-the-less!  They made it to the finals, and played against Pella.  Both bands did so well.  But Pella won 1st this year.  Amber was heart broken.  She felt they had let Mr Britt down.  Especially since this was his last year with the band, he got married and is moving to Des Moines. But they have nothing to be shamed of.  They did a great job!