This is a busy time for Birthdays on both sides of the family. Dad Seitz celebrated his 80th Birthday on March 29! Sandra Bozyk celebrated her Birthday on April 6th, Saturday. Tom's 56th Birthday landed on Thursday, April 4th. Unfortunately, he was not at home for all of us to celebrate that day, since he was in Northern California. Turns out though, he was able to catch an earlier flight and managed to come home Thursday night in time for dinner. We decided to celebrate his special day at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants. I let the waiter know it was Tom's Birthday and they brought him a huge, deep fried ice cream chocolate ball with a candle(for free!). We all enjoyed digging in, although it was so frozen it kept slipping off the plate! And Tom split up his gifts starting on Saturday before he left Sunday. He needed a new GPS and wanted to take it on his California trip. So I had ordered one through Amazon and gave it to him so he could download new maps and such. He was very happy. Then when he came home we continued with gift giving on Friday. I ordered a few more items from Amazon that he had on his wish list-mostly electronics and chargers. But the other big gift included a compact, deep chest freezer for our basement. We have always wanted one since the fridge freezer does not work well for storing the large, Costco meat products which Tom enjoys grilling. We decided this would solve the problem. Fortunately, Sam's Club had the perfect sized freezer on sale and they delivered for free! So I save money and did not have to try and load it myself in the van(which would not work). And it was delivered on Friday when Tom was home to receive it. He was very excited about the gift and was able to slide it down the basement steps, unpack it and plug it in. Then he quickly started to fill it with tasty meat and his low carb bread! It's big enough that it has plenty of room to store lots of steaks and roasts, but small enough to fit perfectly in our furnace storage room.
So Tom was very excited with his Birthday gifts. In the meantime, I headed off to work again at the new facility on Friday, and was actually scheduled to work on Saturday at my full time job. I had two very long days at the end of the week. I was ready for a break on Sunday!
We had planned on taking Tom to a movie on Sunday morning. Allison and I were looking forward to seeing the movie "Shazam". Tom was not as interested, and as it turns out, he decided to stay home and wrap up his last paper for a current class. Allison and I really enjoyed the movie, and afterwards I picked up my mom for a hair appointment and to join us for dinner at our house. Quite a busy week!
Allison has also been busy with her new season of Ultimate Frisbee. She even signed up for Saturday tournaments in DC. And when she is not playing frisbee, she is working out at the YMCA with her previous college roommate. Or playing Dungeons and Dragons with a counselor friend from Girl Scouts. And she keeps up with volunteer work. She ran a paper airplane class for a middle school group of girls with the Northrop staff, and she continues to attend the Gold Award council meeting. Never a dull moment for Allison!
April 8-April 14
Monday, April 8th would have been Dad Bozyk's 84th Birthday. As I said, a very busy month for Birthdays. Sarah Bozyk Hudson enjoyed her special day on Saturday, April 13th! Happy Birthday Sarah! And Spring has arrived in Baltimore! Our blooming trees are quite beautiful-my mom loves driving around looking at all the flowers.
I was happy it warmed up a bit since Allison and I signed up for a Howard County Parks and Rec. paddling class on Saturday morning. We are signed up for one of their kayak trips on the Potomac river in June, but we needed to attend the class before the trip. I have actually taken the class in the past and also attended one of the kayak trips many years ago. This time Allison agreed to join me, and since it has been so many years since attending the class, we needed to do a repeat. Allison actually has not taken the class before, but she has taken several training classes with Girl Scouts. So on Saturday morning we headed over to the park. The instructor expected all participants to trial both canoes and kayaks. So Allison and I started with the canoe. Allison was not crazy about getting into the canoe, but actually enjoyed it. She has been in a canoe before, but most of the time she was either too little to paddle, or supervising Girl Scouts while they paddled. She was surprised how much she enjoyed the experience. I was just not too excited about the size of the canoe. It was not as big as my Dad's old aluminum canoe and the seats were a bit low. I have a hard time sitting down on the floor or low surfaces(bad hip). As it was, we had to load into the canoes and kayaks off a dock and I needed some help getting down on my hands and knees and crawling into the boats. I usually can step in the water and then step into the canoe or kayak, but this lake was a bit too deep for that. After an hour of paddling around in the canoe, along with a lesson, we switched to the kayaks. Allison and I had fun paddling our own kayaks and checking out the geese and ducks(not too close since they were busy nesting and rather grumpy). We also enjoyed searching out the turtles, and I was able to pick one up in the water with my paddle! We had a wonderful morning paddling around the lake in the morning.
Allison and I are also counting down to our upcoming Girl Scout Jamboree camping weekend in May. We had a planning meeting-only a few more to go. Allison will be running a slingshot station, shooting paintballs at targets. I am helping with the fire building station. Our theme this year is Survivor Weekend. Looking forward to spending time at GS camp.
That afternoon we headed up to Hershey, PA to catch a Hockey game. One of Tom's Birthday gifts. Our friend John joined us. Allison too since her Saturday frisbee game was cancelled due to muddy fields from the rain the week before. We had a great time visiting Hershey Candyland(a wonderful visit before Easter!). Lots of interesting new candy. And a very large Easter bunny. And the game was very exciting since the Hershey Bears won and are in the Caldor Cup Tournament!
On Tuesday night, Tom and I enjoyed a date night and watched the "Shazam" movie since Tom missed the outing on Sunday. He thought it was better than he imagined it would be, and we had some tasty Shake Shack burgers afterwards. I was just a bit disappointed in our Tuesday night AMC movie specials as they raised the price from $5 to $6, and they now sell the large popcorn/soda combo with only 1 soda, not 2. I knew it was too good to last!
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