Daddy's Birthday

Happy Birthday to Daddy!  This year- no big extravagant gifts or activities like jumping out of a plane or hang gliding.  Just a wonderful Date Night and a family party at home.  Some friends offered to keep the kids for us so we could have a date night so we planned to take advantage of it for Dan's birthday.  We dropped the kids off in the afternoon and went out to run some errands around town.  We stopped back by so I could breastfeed Luke and then headed back out for a wonderful dinner at Outback.  Alone.  Just the two of us.  No kids.  It . . . was . . . incredible!  We haven't had a Date Night out since before Luke was born.  Oh man- was it nice to just enjoy dinner and have adult conversation.  We didn't have to rush.  We had forgotten what it was like to take our time and enjoy a meal out.

Dan loves cookie cakes- so the kids and I surprised him at work with a store bought one and some balloons but then I also made one for us to enjoy at home.  This was my first attempt at making a homemade cookie cake. My homemade one ended up being better than the store bought one- even if it was more oval than round.

Love love LOVE this pic of my two favorite guys

Check it out- BOTH kids smiling in the same picture.  Happy Birthday Daddy!  Amelia kept singing it to him over and over again :)

Happy Birthday to the man of my dreams- who I could not picture my life without.  We are just perfect for each other- we have so much in common but in other ways our differences balance each other out so well.  I love you more and more :)

Yummy cookie cake!

Luke even wanted to try some

A fun birthday party at home with these two- so special!

then Amelia got very silly- singing Happy Birthday and a bunch of other little songs