This year's milestone birthdays go to Bruce and Teresa. Bruce just turned 70 on Tuesday and Teresa will turn 60 on Thursday. Yikes! I can't believe we're all that old. Bruce celebrated the days leading up to his birthday in his usual style by working on the house. His current project is refinishing the French doors that go out onto the front porch.
I was able to grab a photo before he put the stripper on the first door. Luckily they weren't covered in paint, but the varnish was old, weathered, and brittle. After removing all the grime and adding a new coat of varnish, I think they look pretty good.
For Teresa's birthday, I went to Kansas City and hid money in a giant Easter egg. It wasn't the most original birthday present idea, but it's the thought that counts. Unfortunately, Teresa recently tested positive for COVID, so she wasn't able to eat dinner with us. But at least chatting across the front yard was more than we got to do last year when all the March and April birthdays landed smack in the middle of the quarantine.
Janet had an Easter egg hunt for Violet, Hazel, and Lincoln. Their buckets were almost too small to hold all the eggs she'd strewn around the front yard.
Not to leave anyone out, I had Violet and Lincoln help me hide a few extra eggs for the adults. Trouble was, tiny little Violet and Lincoln hid them under Janet's deck. Even Michael didn't feel limber-enough to crawl under there so we sent the kids back in to bring them out.
Courtney came into town as a birthday surprise for Bruce. So she was able to go searching for eggs, too.
The next day Janet took us over to see her new house. There were a ton of construction trucks, backhoes, and cranes lining the street. I think they're trying to build the entire development in one swoop. The footings had already been poured in Janet's lot, and they were in the process of setting up the forms for the foundation walls.
We made a final stop at Nebraska Furniture Mart. Neither one of our houses are far enough along to actually buy any furniture, but it doesn't hurt to look. Though I doubt I'll be putting the chair Courtney found in our house. It doesn't really look comfortable to me.
