Aileen Celebrates a Significant (ahem...) B.D.

Along with all the life altering events we have been processing these past few weeks (see 'Siggy Urbanite Is Moving to the Island'), we have also be planning a major celebration. My lovely wife has reached a mile-stone birthday which called for something special. Her sister Ardis decided she was going to come out from Calgary, as she has been known to do, and spend a week with us during this time, which was special. We also planned a big party for Saturday night, which was SO much fun - thanks, everybody, for coming! Aileen really enjoyed the evening and all the '40' stuff she got!

But the big surprise was today. We decided to go out for lunch ('spontaneously', of course), and when we got to the restaurant there were Aileen's other two sisters from Edmonton, Ang and Pam, with Pam's little 3 month old baby boy Clayton, who Aileen has just been dying to see! You should have seen the look on Aileen's face once she realized what was happening! She was shocked, and everybody was blubbering - they blame that on the Meier side of the family tree...

So we are having a very memorable, special couple of days! It's been in the planning stage for about 10 months, and we managed to pull the surprise off with great effect - which is amazing because we don't do 'surprises' real well. Aileen is thrilled! Ah, what FUN!