The Blog of Bert Jones

Yes­terday was my GOLDEN birthday… And what a day it was.

First of all, I knew a little bit about what was going on. I acci­den­tally found out (con­trary to people saying I snooped). I really didn’t want to know, I really wanted to be surprised.

So I knew some­thing was going on this weekend. I found out the actual Evite site (I inad­ver­tently received an invite… I was checking her brothers mail for them).

Amy then sent out fake emails to her brothers, saying the party would be Sunday. Then telling me they had prob­lems get­ting into their bertjones.com accounts, so that I would see the email and maybe peek. Which I did, but I only read the first line, and then stopped myself.

So I wasn’t sure what day it was going to be on. But I knew that no matter what Amy said, she was prob­ably lying through her teeth, or telling me the truth and I would think she is lying. So I was really confused.

I was waiting for the whole day to go by so we could “go out to eat”. I was really get­ting on her nerves.

So we left, we had to go get gas, then to the post office, then to the library, then she “acci­den­tally” turned onto our street, so we were taking an awful long time to get to the restau­rant. So I fig­ured some­thing was up.

We arrive at the Mounds View Square that hosts the Pink Flower restau­rant and she parks at the wrong set of doors, So that kinda clued me in (plus I saw my dad’s van and my great aunt’s car in the hand­i­capped spots!)

Good grub, Good Company!

So we walk up to the restau­rant and as soon as I walk in I hear SURPRISE! and this sea of people!

I couldn’t believe so many people were there! And friends that I hadn’t seen in years!

I got some absolutely beau­tiful cards (Mandi hand­made a He-Man card for me! Which I absolutely loved!)

I also got some really funny ones from Shaun and DeDe and Jen­nifer and Jason.

Courtney hand made me a really spe­cial card… I love get­ting cards from her.

I got some absolutely won­derful presents too!

I love this!

Josh and his fiancée Liz got me an absolutely gor­geous ori­ental jew­elry box, that I imme­di­ately put on my ori­ental themed dresser next to my bud­dhas and vases. They also filled it with “gold” choco­late coins… which Amy claimed!

It goes well with my other stuff

I got a really funny book called Furry Logic from Shaun and DeDe… with really cute quotes, like “You’ll always be my best friend… you know too much.” And it has some beau­tiful water­color illus­tra­tions of ani­mals. Which, they didn’t know this, I love water­colors. I am actu­ally trying to learn how to paint with dig­ital water­colors and I love cute animals!

I got an Ernie (Bert & Ernie) doll from my sister… leave it to the nutjob… and a DVD with the orig­inal “Little Shop of Horrors”.

I received some never been opened MINT LPs of Dolly. One I didn’t have and two I did have, but they were scratched!

I got Golden Gra­hams from Mikayla, a Cen­ten­nial Cougars (my high school) t-shirt from Dominic and the card from Courtney.

Muriel and Lor­raine (My great-Aunt and Grand­mother) gave me a really nice Black polo shirt and an alarm clock/radio/calendar/calculator thingy.

My dad gave me a $50 bill which I imme­di­ately went and bought God of War for the PS2.

And Mandi got me Amer­ican Chopper game for the playsta­tion 2 (which was on my wish list) I played the game last night and it’s hard dri­ving a motor­cycle on a joy­stick. Espe­cially since I have never driven a motor­cycle before.

God of War is cool too. The Boyz (Matt and Tony) are just gonna LOVE the game. Very action packed and cool!

All in all, I had a won­derful day. The Pink Flower always has great food. We had Sweet and Sour Chicken, Sesame (orange) chicken (my two favorites) and chicken Chow mien and Egg rolls and cream cheese wontons.

What most people don’t know, is that the Pink Flower is a family run busi­ness. My family has gone there for YEARS! There would be days when you went in and you would see the “dad” sit­ting at a back table, rolling eggrolls or cream cheese won­tons. So you knew right there they were hand made, not bought through a dis­trib­utor and cooked. And the egg rolls are so light, I have had some that are so heavy!

But, I had a won­derful time and I thank everyone for coming! It was a blast! Amy says she is going to do it again, but this time I won’t know ANYTHING! Good!

Now I have to try and plan one for her… maybe her 30^th or some­thing… any ideas?

If you would like to see some of my gifts and cards… head over to my pho­to­blog to see them!

It’s offi­cial!

Riley Mont­gomery is due March 7^th!

I am very excited. And the fact that it is a boy!

Now we will finally have some sort of bal­ance in this house. It’s been 2 boys against 3 girls for too long!

We are so excited and here is the ultrasound.

Painter IX and Wacom Tablet.

I hate pos­ses­sion, BUT I LOVE MY WACOM! THANK YOU Kiki!

Here is more art:

This one I did with Dig­ital Water­color. Very dif­ferent to use, but I really like the tex­ture and the “brush” look.

To make the spray “dots” I used a brush called “Salt”.

I think it turned out pretty good,now I just need to learn detail.…

We saw the new house today.

O.M.G. is it gor­geous. There is plenty of room for everyone.

The girls and boy get split up into their own rooms, Cindy gets her own room and we get our own room and our own bath­room (with a whirlpool!). The kitchen is great, the living room is huge, so is the dining room. And there is a sun room that we can use as a office!! Plus room for a table to fold clothes that come from the washer and dryer next to it!

I cannot wait. It has so much space for us that it is so per­fect. I just pray that every­thing falls into place for us. They are trying to move it and finish the inte­rior work by the end of this month! We could be moved in by June! I am sooooo excited! (UPDATE: we didn’t move in until July 1^st. And just barely… read future posts..)

Keep us in your prayers and thoughts!

Here is the House Layout (click to enlarge):