Book Club Friday & A BIG Birthday

This little guy is FORTY YEARS OLD today!

This 'little guy' is my sweet Hubby. 

Happy Birthday Babe!

 x x x Love you x x x

(pic taken last year Aug 2011)

Yay, it's Friday, hubby has taken the day off for his birthday today, so we're all doing what we love to do, just relaxing at home and enjoying the comforts of home - it's where we like to be. I went out earlier and picked up an Indian Takeaway for lunch. We were going to go out but Jason and Kristen said they'd rather stay in (surprise) so I drove an hours round trip to go pick up Indian food! After we ate Jason blew out candles on his birthday cake Key Lime Pie! We're gonna watch a concert on tv tonight, but Jason doesn't know who yet - it's a surprise! Tomorrow we'll celebrate his special day with our friends next door and my inlaws. I'll have lots of pictures to share tomorrow. Haven't taken many yet today.

 Before I sign off for the weekend I wanted to join Heather for Book Club Friday. I love that I'm ahead with my reading for my book club (no book this month, and Heaven is for Real is September's pick which I've already finished) so I get to read whatever I like for the next couple of months. Last week I read  . . . 

 As her only child leaves to study abroad and her husband admits his love for a younger woman, Annie Colwater feels invisible. Having devoted herself to being the best wife and mother she could be for the last 20 years, Annie no longer knows who she is. She heads home to her father and to Mystic, Washington--where she grew up, where the dreams she barely remembers first blossomed, and where her first love, Nick Delacroix, still lives.

I picked up this book from the library because someone else on BCF had reviewed it. It is the first Kristin Hannah book I've actually read. I liked it, it was a nice easy read and I'm sure I'll read more of her books. The characters in this book were easy to get to know, the story line rather sad, about a twenty year marriage that is falling apart and a woman who has 'lost herself', but it all turns out well in the end (most romance stories do). I've heard Firefly Lane and Winter Garden also by Kristin Hannah are good reads too. I'll be looking for them soon at the library. This week I decided to pick up Harry Potter!!!!!!!!!!  I have only ever read the first book and keep wanting to read the rest. I've started on book 2 but I did this about 6 months ago too and put it down again. I'm starting from the beginning again but not sure I will stick with it? I have a good Jodi Picoult book on my nightstand too that I want to start - decisions, decisions!