Happy Birthday to Chris!

Chris's birthday celebration started the Sunday before with Apple Pie:

He was thinking about going rouge and having apple pie instead of Jell-o cake for his birthday dessert!

Elle and I talked him out of it by making him the above mentioned apple pie.

Then the BIG day:

While Chris was at work, Elle and I put 40 balloons all over the house with notes attached saying how much, and why we loved him

(Awww!)

Birthday dinner:

Then, the moment Elle and I had been waiting for all week because we made him a. . .

Birthday PINATA!  

See, Chris loves this terrible cartoon called Adventure Time with Jake the Dog (above) and Finn the Human.

Click HERE to see how well we did recreating Jake :)

Elle made an Adventure Time sword too

Chris was just as happy to see the pinata as we were to make it.

Our friend had a couple of Sponge Bob party hats for them to wear!

You must see the video of the pinata!

HERE

And Chris finishing it off:

HERE

Poor Jake:

And the traditional Jell-O cake!

(gosh, he's so old!)

The fun continued that Saturday when we had our friends over for dinner to celebrate Chris's birthday and Valentine's Day

The evening ended up with viewing silly YouTube videos.

One of our favorites:

HERE

Watch it again with subtitles and you may just wet your pants:

HERE

It was a great celebration!

I doubt that Chris will be able to top it when I turn 40 in 10 years ;)

Sunday Dress and Chair

I know I know I know I know.

It's been a long time. 

But, the important thing is I'm posting now :)

You may recognize this dress from a few posts ago, but oh well.  She still looks darling.

Here she is imagining that she's weightless, surrounded by tiny seahorses.

(not really.  I made up that last part)

                 Now for the "chair' portion of "Sunday Dress and Chair"

We can't figure out what to do about a bed for Elle.  She really likes one of the bedrooms, but it is too small for her current bed.  Therefore, she has a room and a bedroom.  

We decided it'd be much cheaper just to buy something to sit on rather than buy another bed.  

Thus:

The bungee chair, which has some sitting hazards, but is still great. *

:)

Stay tuned for another post soon as it is almost the big 40 day for Chris!!

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*by the way, that's my shirt she's wearing!  sheesh!  That girl . . .