LOL! This all sounds wonderful and gives us old boomers a glimmer of hope that there is still some good men out there. Heh Chatty? I got dibs on her soon to be free bro...k? teehee...

Isn't it nice to see Chick back? I just smiled when I saw the cake cause I knew it was sister Chick. Wuhooooo!

JJ

Well okay but only because you are the Queen I will step aside from the hunky brother round-up.
Go for it, yee haw!
And yes as soon as I saw that cake I felt happy Chick was back. I asked in another post where she was but didn't see a reply...

[ September 06, 2005, 09:09 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]

Pattyann, what a fantastic birthday with the fantastic-est man to go with it! Many many happy many more

Happy Birthday PA, and thanks for sharing a good marriage story! I should email your post to my husband lest he forget my birthday again. LLL

Y'all are so funny! JJ-I want an invitation to the wedding!

Have quite a good man myself (he of the make lemonade from construction worker lemons fame.) Although, I AM going to have to mention to him about Pattyann's birthday extraordinaire.
Last year, mine took me on a 10-mile hike. Okay, so it did end at a natural hot spring in the middle of nowhere,and with nobody around, skinny dipping ensued! My gosh, the stuff I admit to you ladies!

Happy belated birthday, Pattyann... I've never gotten diamonds, so do tell us more!!!

Fiftyandfine, I could have done without the 10-mile hike. But that dip in the hot springs afterward...whoooheee (is that how you spell it?). Now if I were to put that little spark in Hubby's brain, who knows where he'd take me next birthday! I have to go Google "secluded natural hot springs" and start leaving travel brochures around...

Pattyann, thanks for jumping in with a great marriage story. I am tickled for you. Everyone deserves to feel like a queen. You lucky duck. Give him a great big boomer hug for us.

Chick is back. Yahoo. I loved seeing her fancy displays of kindness.

My husband surprised me on my 50th. Told me we were going to NY for a conference and I'm all cranky because I didn't want to turn 50 listening to speakers. I'm so ditzy and not paying attention that I didn't notice they checked our passports. I finally woke up and asked David why we needed passports to go to NY and he said it was a flight that was stopping in NY and then, going overseas. I actually believed him. So we get on the plane and I notice the flight crew is speaking French and he finally said, I have good news and bad news. The good news is we're going to London and Paris and the bad news is we can only be there four days. I started bawling! What a trip! What a birthday present! And, he topped it the following year. He took me to St. Tropez. The man never ceases to surprise me with wonderful ideas he's put a lot of effort and money into.

For my 40th birthday my husband gave me a dish drainer & something else I can't remember!!!
Maybe I will get dish towels for my 50th!!!