Belated Birthday blog

Happy birfday doey! I call her doey ever since I heard her niece say it because she couldn't pronounce "Joni". I wanted to post something a couple days ago, but time did not permit...what a lame excuse.

I love Joni's little "surprised hands", she clasps them under her chin, then sways her body...starting with her butt...back and forth. I got her a little cake because she would have killed me if I got a big one with just the two of us.

Joni just turned 62 years old, she loves using the camera timer, but I think she got a little mixed up witht the numbers. By the way, I just noticed that my head is 3 times the size of Joni's, pretty cool huh?

We went to Johnny Carino's for dinner and ate until we were uncomfortably full, and I took her shopping at the mall, yeah you heard that right. One of the best presents I could give Joni is to show patience and watch her look at clothes. She ended up getting some cool stuff, and I thought it was pretty cool that she is so into buying Texas A&M stuff for herself. By the time we leave here we'll probably have to decorate an entire room with Aggie stuff. We decided to catch the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie, what kills me is that someone took thier 3 kids, 6 months, 2 years, and 5 years to the movie. Not just because they were screaming and crying the WHOLE time, or because the movie is way too scary for younger kids, but it was midnight...why are they even awake? These people need to be shipped off to some compund in Saudi Arabia...that was for you Meleesh. Or maybe we could trade messed up people with some nicer foreigners who are having trouble getting into our country. I find the people who are the most vocal about shipping out illegals are usually the ones we don't want here anyways. I do agree something needs to be done to our borders...but that is a whole other subject.

Joni is the type of person that makes life worth living. I have learned to appreciate some of the littlist things in life because of her influence. No matter who she is with, she can find something to belly laugh about...it could be about anything, but it is never a cruel laugh. The other day I fell over our bed when I was trying to fix the frame, she had the control to hold her composure until she knew I was okay, then she lost it. I hope we keep having fun until she really is 62, and not just because the candles say so. I am pretty lucky to be with such a beautiful girl.

Anyhoo, as promised I wanted to share the card I got for her...we also got some pretty good ones from other people...I can't find mine though, so I will have to do my best to translate it. There is a picture of two owls on the cover sleeping, it looks like a serious card at first which makes it even better. It says something like: "I bet you weren't expecting this for your birthday...open the card...a pair of droopy hooters." Maybe it was the time of day, I don't know, but I lost it in front of a lot of people.