Day 197 ~ More Pics of Birthday Hysteria!

A Birthday Wish being made

Here are some more pics of when we celebrated my father-in-law's birthday. As you see, he had no trouble blowing out the candles.

'twas delicious!

The cake was delicious! White and chocolate mouse cake. Yum!

See you tomorrow.

Day 190 ~ The Man of the Hour!

The Birthday Boy!

Yesterday, we wen't to Poppy's place for my father-in -law's Birthday celebration. His wife, my dear mom-in-law, was feeling a bit under the weather so she stayed home. 

He is smiling because I paid for his lunch!

See you tomorrow!

Day 172 ~ Daniel is Twenty Years Old!

The cake is on fire!

 Daniel turned 20 yesterday. Karen, sadly, had to work so we'll be having a family celebration with everyone later this week but we didn't want Daniel not to have a cake so Justin made one...

A MAN CAKE

 ...as you can see, Justin is not the best at putting frosting on but the cake was delicious! Thanks, Justin!
Justin called this a "man cake" given its appearance.

Eager to Eat

We sang "Happy Birthday" but I heard Matthew sing "Happy Tax day" instead. ha ha ha.

Happy Birthday, Daniel.

See you tomorrow.

Day 56 ~ Coins for Christmas Shopping!

Karen, beginning to pour coins

 All year long, Karen has emptied my pockets and collected all the coins from those pockets and put them into a can. Well, we collected two cans worth of coins and went to TD Bank to cash them in. How much did we get? Enough for some modest Christmas Shopping!

Karen pouring in the coins

Penny Arcade

If you guess within $1.99 of what you think your total will be, you get a prize. Luckily, we did NOT even come close to winning because we guessed too low!

a Christmas display at the Bank

Yes, I took a lollipop!

 A display at one of the stores we shopped in

We spent the rest of the day in the stores and paid cash for all the gifts! Merry Christmas everyone!

See you tomorrow!

Day 29 ~ A Birthday Celebration!

Sara, about to blow out the Candles

Last week, before Thanksgiving, our family to to "Grandma's house" to sing Happy Birthday to Sara. Now it is true that Sara's birthday was on Veteran's day (Nov 11th) so it was some time ago but she was at school at the time and she missed having a cake with the family.  So, we did it up big!

....it seems like only yesterday that Sara was a little tike like this....

In the pool, yelling for her dog, Spike

I realize I don't have any digital pictures of my kids when they were really young. Or, at least, I can't find them! The picture above was for a story I wrote and was trying to make a "picture book" using photos. I never completed the project.

hanging around, eating cake!

Since Sara was the birthday girl, she chose the cake. The one she liked is Tiramisu. I am not a big fan but it's her day so that's what we ate. I had a little bit and couldn't finish it.

Happy birthday, Sara! 

See you, tomorrow!