This past Saturday was Jason's 31st birthday!! Jason had prearranged for his mom to take ALL the kids (did you catch that dad? ALL the kids) friday night for a sleepover so we could have one more night to ourselves before the new baby comes. So we went to Wingers because he had a free birthday meal from them. It was really good. Then we went and did a little birthday shopping and found some killer deals! After that we did a little grocery shopping and rented a really bad movie from Redbox. I think it was called Duplicity...we didn't even finish it. We turned it off because we just couldn't get into it. It was really hard to follow because they kept doing all these flashbacks. Anyway, not a good movie. So, we turned it in early. The next morning his mom invited us over for breakfast so we went and had some eggs and toast. The kids had a blast at grandma's and were just as wild as could be. Nate did great for his first time away from mom and dad for the night. I'm really glad he made it easy for grandma Liz. Jason chose to work that day. His company was doing inventory that day so he left to be there at 11am and didn't come home until around 7pm. I made him a special dinner of Spicy Asian Chicken and homemade Ham Fried Rice. He seemed to enjoy it. The girls were just adamant that daddy have a "themed" birthday party and blow out candles. They chose a basketball theme for him. Jason doesn't really like cake so I usually make him his favorite Banana Cream Pie, but you can't really put candles in a pie. So, I thought that I would be really clever and make him a cake and frost it like a basketball. I don't know what my problem is, but everytime I make two round cakes they fall apart!!!!!!!! I tried to piece it together and frost over it anyway but it looked like crap and wasn't even picture worthy...one of those memories I'd like to forget! So, that didn't work out but it was ok because he still blew out the candle and the cake was more for me and the kids anyway. On Sunday we invited my family and his family over for pie. Well, actually, at the last minute I called my mother in-law to see if we could do it at her house. I spent the whole day Saturday cleaning and by the end of the day it didn't even look like I had lifted a finger. I used up all my energy on that whole day and knew that I wouldn't be able to clean on Sunday, so she saved me once again. Anyway, my sister Kayla has her birthday on the 27th of January so she brought a chocolate cake so we could sing to her and she could blow out her candles. She turned 20 this year! Makes me feel really old. Jason is not a fan of chocolate and as soon as Kay walked in the house with this nice chocolate cake with chocolate frosting Maddie said "Oh, we don't like chocolate!"
So, we sang to the birthday kids and started slicing up the pies and cake. Guess what Maddie had...the chocolate cake. And then a piece of pie. All in all I think it was a pretty low key, but happy birthday, which is just the way he likes it. So, here's J's Birthday:
I decided that I had time for another page so I scrapped Christmas Morning. I think I've already told you the story about when the girls came up stairs that morning to see what Santa brought them, but I'll tell it really quick. They wanted art and craft things so we found these really great easels for them. They run up stairs and then suddenly stop. They don't know what the easels are!! Em turns her attention to the presents under the tree. I'd show you the video, but it's mostly just them standing around trying to figure out what the heck Santa brought them. They didn't even notice any of the other things he brought. It was just too funny. Once I explained what they were and showed them all the craft things they were excited. Nathan got a basketball hoop with a basketball as his present from Santa. He just wanted to "shoo" all morning. It's a little tall for him so Jason had to hold him up, but he sure loved trying to do it all morning. He also loves to color and found his way into the girls box that had their crayons in it and started coloring in a magazine. It was a pretty mellow Christmas morning but the kids enjoyed the things they received. We got a Wii game for the family to play, a Barbie Wii game for the girls to play and a few princess card games and board games to play. Emma has inherited her mother's love to play games so I try to find new ones for her to play. She is just now getting into "Go Fish" and "Old Maid" and games like that. Anyway, sorry about all the rambling. May I present: Christmas Morning
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