Happy Birthday, Mike!

Mike turned 39 on Friday, yea!!! I told him next year we'll have to do the whole "over-the-hill" party when he turns 40. This year we kept it pretty low-key. Mike stayed home from work and spent the day with Jacob. After taking Katie to school, I had Jacob decorate a card for Mike. Jake had fun putting lots of stamps on it, and got creative writing his own name inside and "Dad" on the envelope :) (I will scan those in and get them up here tomorrow). Mike loved the card. Then I gave Mike my card and a T-Shirt that says "Gamers do it all night long". That was just so he'd have something to open today - his real gift is I'm going to have the windows on his car tinted for him.

Mike and Jake played video games for a bit while I got some of the kind of work for which I get paid accomplished. Then we all went over to Chuck-E-Cheese's and played more games - Jake is getting good at skee ball! After that, we picked Katie up from school and all came back to the house. We packed up Jake's clothes, toys, favorite books and some pictures of our family so he wouldn't be so homesick. Katie gave Mike her birthday card, then we lit the candles on the cake and sang "Happy Birthday" to Mike. The Banana Layer cake was fabulous (I'll also post that recipe tomorrow). I swear I've never seen half of an entire cake get consumed so quickly!!

Not long after that, Jake's Mom and Katie's Dad arrived to pick them both up. We're all going to miss that Booger so much! *sniff* Mike was already missing Jake, and wasn't really in the mood to go to the dinner we had planned, so we decided to go over to Game Stop and browse instead. After a bit of that, we were looking for someplace to get take-out, when we decided instead to go to a Greek restaurant near the house. I hadn't tried Greek food before, so it was an adventure for me. We really enjoyed our dinner after all, and then came home to vegetate a while before bedtime.