Happy Birthday to Me!

So as many of you may already know, today is my birthday. I am thirty. There I said it. With that said, my boys have been awesome today. They brought me breakfast in bed and let me sleep in until 11. Shortly after breakfast they tried to sneak out (as quietly as a herd of elephants can sneak out of a place) to get my birthday present.

After they left I meandered downstairs, grabbed a can of Pepsi and sat down in front of the computer to check my email. I was there for about 10 minutes when the back door opens and I hear Deaglan. "Gunga," (a very close friend of the family. Joey couldn't say Uncle it came out Gunga) "Gunga, don't let mommy see the cake" in his quietest whisper. Any one who knows Deg, knows that he has 1 switch, off and really loud. To which Ed responds "Thanks, Deg...." "I didn't hear anything!" I shout from the office, so Deg won't think that he's ruined the surprise.












After dinner they "surprised" me with my cake, a Baskin Robbins Oreo icecream cake. It was frozen solid. They were only able to put 3 candles in. Chris was picking on me, telling the boys not to put too many candles in because I might get winded blowing them out in my old age.

So instead of blowing out the three little candles in one breath, I was laughing so hard I had to laugh the last candle out. To cut the cake I had to put the knife in a tall glass of hot water, stab it, and put all my weight into pushing the knife down to cut the cake.

I tossed one of the cookies onto the tray of Ricky's highchair instead of giving him a piece of cake. Well, Ricky doesn't like to have dirty hands so he had to show me how awful it was that his hands were dirty. After his hands were clean he wanted to say cheese for the camera and didn't want to share his photo-op with Deg.

For my birthday they let me sleep in, gave my lots of laughs, and the book Brisinger by Christopher Paolini. I'm really into dragons and sci-fi stuff like that. This is the third book in his Inheritance series. I've read the first two books, Eragon and Eldest and almost couldn't wait to get Brisinger. It came out September 20th, I told Chris I wanted it so i waited for him to get it for me.

In other news Joey lost his third tooth last night. So now he's lisping his "th's". Chris had him say "stupid thistle" and it came out "thoopid thithle". It was hard not to laugh!