Happy 234th Birthday, Honey!
(We go all out for birthdays. We get dressed up, I serve a divine cake that isn’t falling apart at all, and we go out and buy brand-spankin’ new candles. We would never combine the candles from our 23rd and 24th birthdays so that their sum might, if you tilted your head and squinted your eyes, equal 27.)
Speaking of being cheap, we totally dressed up as cows for Cow Appreciation Day.
And by “dressed up” I mean, “found a printable cow costume on the internet and taped it to ourselves.”
Four free meals at Chick Fil-A. Yeah, baby.
Look at that cute little tail.
And now for a segment I would like to call:
The Many Faces of Benjamin.
The Sleeping Face, (and also!) The Eating Face.
This boy likes his Whole Wheat Squares so much, he will continue to eat them even after he has fallen asleep.
The Scowling Face.
This is the face I got when I woke up on the Fourth of July.
I’m not sure why he was giving it to me at this particular time. Possibly because I had the audacity to stop feeding him smoothie so I could get a picture of his cute blueberry mustache.
The Concentration Face.
Note the tongue. He gets that from his daddy. Who got it from Michael Jordan, I’m pretty sure.
The Ooh Ooh, I’m Doing Something Bad Face.
He could hardly believe his luck when he woke up from his nap and saw we had built a mountain of boxes in the living room JUST FOR HIM.
Have I mentioned we’re moving this Saturday? Remember the duplex? Ahh, yes, I can see it’s coming back to you now.
I was up until obscene hours of the night yesterday, perfecting this little floorplan of our new place.
I did it ALL MYSELF. Using only MICROSOFT PAINT.
I am so very proud of myself. I plan on printing it out and giving copies to the friends helping us move.
Speaking of obscene hours of the night…
(It is now 12:53am.)
I must draw to a close here.
Get it??
(I am ashamed.)
Add your [family friendly] pictures here:
Just to be clear, in the Benjamin-on-Boxes picture, is that your Advent Calendar hanging on the wall behind the couch? 😉
And, should The Friends Helping You Move go ahead and print out the floorplan themselves? Or will it possibly change again before Saturday?
Ooooh, is that German Chocolate Cake? I always make that for my husband on his birthday.
Your floor plan looks awesome. 🙂
that floor plan is totally the type of thing that I would do! 🙂 And, I love the candles. Starting last year, I insisted on binary candles on my cake. That way, unless you get REALLY old, you’ll only need 7 plain candles — you just light the 1s and leave the 0s unlit. Yeah, I’m a nerd. 🙂
You are hilarious.
I love the sleeping picture!!! Lexi hasn’t fallen asleep while eating, I think it might be a boy thing.
And your Olivia cow is adorable.
and the floor plan.. yah. that’s something I would do. Nothing like sharing a good floor plan right!?
What a scowl! That boy is serious about his smoothies! I am a geek for organizing so I LOVE your floor plan! and seriously…. it took me forever to figure out that 2 a clothes thing. I must have been up way to early today!
Katherine: My husband loves your binary candle idea!
Beautiful cake! But don’t let Daniel see it. His birthday cake was not even in the same realm of cake-ness… Have I mentioned that I’m not a cake person? Poor Jeremiah will have a very non-exciting cake for his first birthday…unless of course you would like to come over and help me out. 😉
And I love the cow outfit!