Birthday Week

It seems that lately all we have been doing is celebrating birthdays! It can be fun that Brad's birthday and my birthday are only a day apart but at times my birthday is a little overlooked because Brad's birthday is first so by the time mine comes around it just feels like we are dragging the birthday thing out. So this year Brad and our friend Wade surprised me and Wade's wife, Elizabeth, with a surprise party a week early. It was actually on Elizabeth's real birthday. Brad and Wade had been up to something and I assumed it was something for our birthday's but I really was not sure what they were doing. Last Saturday at about 2:30 he told me to go over to Elizabeth's house and when I asked him why he told me I would find out when I got there. So I went over there and Wade handed us the business card of a nail parlor and told us to go there and he said that when we got back we would all go to the Cheesecake factory for our birthday dinner. We were both really excited and we were treated with both a pedicure and a manicure. It was nice and relaxing and very enjoyable. When we finished our instructions were to go back to the house and when we arrived there there was a nice paper towel banner that read "Happy Birthday Elizabeth and Jenni" and then a whole bunch of our friends and their kids all jumped out and yelled "surprise! Happy Birthday!" It was really fun and very thoughtful of Brad to do something for me. My birthday present was a PS2 with Dance Dance revolution and American Idol Karaoke. We had a great time at the party singing karaoke but unfortunately the dance pads broke before we all got to play DDR. We have some more on order so I can't wait to tear it up on the dance floor! Unfortunately we did not take any pictures but our friends did so I will try to get some copies from them and post them later.

For Brad's birthday the girls and I went down town and took him out to lunch and then we had a little quiet family party when he came home from work. Ayden really wanted to make birthday hats and cards and we also made him a tres leches cake. It was a fun quiet night. It seems really boring for being his 30th birthday but his big present was the road bike (both Christmas and birthday). We did get a couple pictures of Brad's party. I think the best picture is the one after Brad blows the candles out because it is all smokey. It just shows how old he is getting. I also added a few other pictures of the girls lately.