One year older, and wiser too

27, and he has officially entered into the age where he feels weird aging. Before he couldn't wait to be 25 and 26 because he felt it sounded more mature. Somehow the one year from 26 to 27 just meant to him he was in his late twenties on his way to the thirties and will be an old wrinkle-bag-man one day.

Jake wanted his whole day to be a surprise so we woke him up Thursday morning with birthday breakfast, or should I say dessert for breakfast, waffles with strawberries and whipped cream accompanied by an egg, hash brown, cheesy dish thing (grandma sherri's recipe, let's just call the concoction Sherri's-got-hash) It was quite de-lish. We ate, sang to him, and he opened up up his gifts. After we loaded up the ladies and headed to Classic Skating. Jake sneered at the idea at first, but he wanted the day to be a "surprise" so that meant I was in charge. He actually really ended up enjoyed himself, and was glad we went. The girls had a blast!
So for those who don't know, Classic isn't just for tweeners looking to score Big at snowball anymore, it's open week-day mornings for families. My girls rode bikes and scooters on the skate rink side, and did bounce'n off the wall toys, and a jungle gyms on the other end.





Alyza got her kicks being pushed on the scooter, and Issy (now that her legs are long enough) zoomed around, doing 50mph on her 3-wheeler.

Afterward we mosied on over to Jake's fav. restaurant, Sizzlers. Grabbed a bite to eat, some all-you-can-eat-shrimp, and hit up the do-it-yourself ice cream machine.


Now for the biggest surprise of the day, this took a whole lot of tom-foolery on my part. I told Jake we were dropping the kids off at home to be babysat while he and I carried the birthday celebration on into the night as husband and wife, while in all actuality our house was filling up with his YM's, YW's and neighbors to shout out a birthday "SURPRISE" as we walked in through the door. (Special thanks to Stephanie, the Mastermind and setter-upper of the event) He was surprised! If it wasn't obvious by the look on his face, then his body language gave him away. He jumped back and cowered in a defensive position as if to protect himself from an attacker. It was amusing. There we ended our day with cake, ice cream, and some neighborly jibber jabber.

I just realized while writing we had ice cream twice that day, I'm not to sure how to feel about that.

Happy birthday Jake, I love ya!