A Little Off the Top: Thirty-Five on the Thirty-Fifth

We celebrated Josh's birthday, starting with a Monday night FHE activity. I had the older kids fill out a survey of Josh's favorites, just to see how they compare with his answers. It was quite funny to read their guesses that his "best friend" was a former co-worker, and that his favorite book was, "Dad doesn't read." We clarified that he doesn't have time to read for "fun", and that he usually doesn't read hard-copy books. ;)

His birthday day, we kids got up early and laid out the hand-made cards (which were his favorites), along with all of the healthy treats. Funny story: I got a whole BAG of all of his favorite sweet treats, but the turkey discovered my hiding spot and ate all of them in a late-night sugar binge! I pieced together the remaining treats, and made some cinnamon rolls and OJ for breakfast, and we all went off to school/work for the day. Good grief!

Balloon pom-poms (Boo) , a pop-up card (Yaks), and Diddles' signature,
along with a picture of a "scary monters". Maybe they ate all the treats?!

Josh wanted to run 35km for his 35th birthday (to each their own), so off he went just after lunch for a nice run. The weather held out better than I thought, but it was still snowing sideways for most of his run. He was cold and wet when he got home, but he made it!

I took this photo from our upstairs window. Nice and warm in here!

Following work, Josh chose a dinner OUT for his birthday meal. It's so nice we are all old enough now we can somewhat enjoy a warm sit-down dinner at an establishment w/o causing a scene! We enjoyed burgers, fries, gyros and fish tacos at our local restaurant - South Fork.

We didn't snap any pictures of dinner, but it was pretty exciting to run into Boo's teacher. One draw-back for our small-town teachers, chances are you're going to run into a former student everywhere you go! I appreciate the little assortment of lunch boxes they have for kids. Each lunchbox has 5-6 little McDonalds toys inside, that kids can play with while waiting for their food. Diddles LOVES these! Great idea!

After dinner we cut into a delicious home-made chocolate cake, after singing twice and blowing out the candle twice as well. (sigh) Diddles.