Happy Birthday Nate!!!

Alright, so this post is a little late. But Nate doesn't look at this anyways so it is okay. His birthday was on Friday and we had a great day! He even had the day off and didn't do ANY reading or work related things. It was nice. I think I could get used to that. But anyway, it was a great day for all of us. It started off with me slaving away in the kitchen making his traditional homemade German chocolate cake. This is a must have for him and although I do not fully enjoy making it, it turned out better than any of the previous years I made it. I must admit, last year I tried to cheat and use a box cake, with homemade frosting, and that just didn't quite cut it. The whole thing has to be made from scratch. It looked something like this:

Nate really wanted to do something fun with the kids and he chose this:

I know what you are all thinking. Chuck E. Cheese's. Great. But it was fun. I think we have only ever been their 2 times, and that was when we went with Medmates and it was paid for. So it's not like we frequent the joint or anything, it was just something new for the kids and they had lots of fun. And I found great coupons online so it wasn't too expensive.

So then we came home and relaxed. Dylan helped me wrap presents (which he has been so excited about all week) and then we watched Nate open them. I think he was pretty excited with most of them. We then busted this present out and played for a bit:

It is really fun. I actually bought it more for me. I always have to get him something that I can benefit from as well. We just love being outside and doing things together so this was perfect.

Then Nate and I ordered take out from here:


And snuck it into this movie:



And then went and got these after:

We don't go out by ourselves too often so it was great. The movie was really funny too. Not one that I was too excited about, but recommend to other Steve Carrell fans.

So that's it. Another birthday wrapped up for him.