Feeling The Birthday Love

I had a great birthday #39 ❤️ Mike and the kids got me cards and flowers and we went to dinner at Whiskey Warehouse, which has a fun rooftop bar. 

Friday Night Out

Last night Mandy and I went for a by then much needed night out. We went to the mall where we did some early birthday shopping and then to the Wine Bar at Foxcroft for drinks and dinner. We didn't get much in the way of pictures while we were out, but here is me and Caroline before we left:

The Mystery Of The Stolen Bike Seat

(Or more accurately, the mystery of why someone would steal a bike seat?!)

When I left work yesterday afternoon and went to unlock my bike I discovered that someone had stolen my bike seat and helmet. Clearly this person had been riding their bike at the time and decided they liked my seat better because they left me with their bike seat. (Wtf?!) 

I called Mandy to come pick me up since while they had left me with their bike seat, they took the post and clamp off of my bike to attach the seat to theirs, so the seat they left me couldn't actually be attached to my bike, leaving it unrideable.  

Mandy picked me up and we threw the bike in the back of the car. We were driving down 51 and I was saying "there's some punk kid riding around town with my bike seat and helmet!" As we stopped at a red light, Mandy looked out the drivers' side window and said, "You mean like that one?"

I looked out her window and sure enough their was a teenaged boy on a little red bike with a big old white bike seat and wearing a silver bike helmet. 

He crossed right in front of us, giving me the opportunity to roll my window down and give him quite an earful ;-) ("Mom, what did you say?" Charlie asked. "I'll tell you when you turn 18, honey.") 

When he heard me the kid tore off, and since we had 5 kids who needed to be picked up at 3 different summer camps within the next 20 minutes there was no use following him. 

My bike is currently at the shop, where they had to order all the parts so it won't be ready till Thursday. Mercifully they felt sorry for me and only charged me $17.99, giving me the bike seat for free. 

And I guess now I'll be locking my bike up at work instead of across the street. 

50lbs of Puppy Love

Mod Design Camp

Ben & Charlie started off 2 weeks of camp at Charlotte Latin this morning: Mod Design and Game Design. This week they are building Minecraft mods (mod=modification, Minecraft allows users to alter its code to create, well, basically anything.) Charlie's mod involves exploding weapons of some sort and Ben's involves deadly animals. The boys came home talking about computer code and syntax errors and say camp is really fun and really hard work which I guess makes it worth the hefty price tag!

Here are the boys this morning, raring to go:

Thought I Had A Few More Years...

Until she started stealing my Lululemon headbands...

Friday Bike Ride

I finally gave in and let the kids ride their bikes with me to summer camp today.

:-)