Birthday Bust

Well, despite all my very good intentions and hard work Dave's birthday festivities did not go as planned.

I did make Dave's favorite dinner, but it was not ready on time. I went to make his favorite cake, strawberry cake, and realized I didn't have all the ingredients, so I settled for his next favorite, oatmeal cake. That would have turned out lovely if I didn't forget the baking soda. Cards weren't ready and presents weren't wrapped, oh...maybe that's because it had not arrived in the mail yet. I had been working on a little video of his life to give him. "Little" is really not the best word to describe it, I've spent the better half of my life these past few months working on it; secretly getting and scanning in old pictures and video from his parents and mission, and trying to get some pictures of our lives before the digital era. Really, just trying to compile 30 years of life, not easy. And of course, that wasn't quite ready yet either.

In the end we had a very late dinner, makeshift cards, a horribly flat cake, a semi-finished video that needs some improvements, and a tie.

Then today we were supposed to go out. We had a friend ready to watch our kids and everything (thanks Rocia). And our sweet little Molly decides today is the day she wants to be the grumpiest baby alive. So, after 4 hours of crying and not being able to figure out what was wrong, we canceled our plans and ended up using plan B, once again, to celebrate this monumental 30th birthday of Dave's. Plan B was getting the kids in bed, eating leftovers and watching a movie that we both fell asleep during.

In the end the video that I made, although in need of some minor changes, did turn out really well and he loved it. And he got spoiled rotten with his present. Wii must really love you. I did try, does that count?