So it has been a while -- sorry -- First I am going to blame it on Phil as you can see from the title of this post he was supposed to write this one and when he didn't I felt like I was behind and the task of catching up is always daunting and just became more daunting with each passing trip. But I am going to try and make up for it over the next few weeks and catch you all up on what has been going on since October.
We did a lot of travelling over the summer, so we were exhausted and decided to take some time off. But that doesn't mean we were sitting home bored.
So Phil turned thirty (23 October) and I went all
out. The Birthday celebration began the Sunday before. We had friends over for football and I had a great cake planned so I figured that having cake with then would be better than having cake just the two of us.
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It was Phil's first cake on a cake plate and it was a winner:
Funfetti Cake topped with M&Ms and surrounded by Kit Kats
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Thank goodness we shared otherwise we would both still be in sugar comas. Oh and I should mention that I had been planning this cake since July when Patty & Rob came to visit I had to have them bring funfetti cake since they don't sell it at the commissary. Phil had no idea and was looking for funfetti cake the day before.
On his actual birthday we both had to work but that didn't top me from making sure it was a great day for him This was waiting on his desk (thanks for the help Mike Pachuki):
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| I just thought this would be perfect for his desk :) |
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| Phil didn't get the joke till a few days later :) |
I even planned to get home early so that I could set up the rest of his gifts and start cooking dinner. Fortunately or unfortunately Phil was also able to get off early and was right behind me so I had little time and I had to stall him. But it was all worth to see his face when we walked in to this:
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| Thirty gifts in all shapes and sizes. This was much harder to do than I initially anticipated. |
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| The first gift he noticed was the beer: 30 unwrapped bottles But the first thing he "opened" was his book of birthday wishes that you all helped me compile. |
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| Many of his gifts also had a little note or clue on it. The bag which held the Nerf gun and Lego's said: because I know sometime you will still act like you are five. |
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| His quest for the next 30 years is to drink everyone of the 1001 beers in the book. He is not counting anything he drank before he turned 30 and a lot of the beers since then have not been in the book, but he has added them. |
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| Italian scratch offs. We might be millionaires! He has no idea how to read them so he hasn't done anything with them yet. |
Once he finished opening his gifts we enjoyed his favorite meal: chicken parmesan, which he helped me cook since he was home so early and of course some left over birthday cake while we watched E.T. one of his gifts.
