He is finally joining me in the ripe old age of 31. We had a few festivities. His family made phone calls or sent text messages wishing him well. My family came over bearing gifts. We had a party at our house and I made his favorite cake. (Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake! It is a Paula Dean recipe so it lives up to its name.) It was a quiet affair and I think that is how Nathan prefers life. He is still working two full time jobs. I wish sometimes he could have just one day to rest, but alas, no rest for the wicked. I am too, working and trying to raise these three kids that seemed to arrive from out of no where. I feel, often, like a single mother again. It is a creepy feeling. (like deja vu) But, when he is home, he is a great dad and that is awesome. So we tried to have yesterday be all about Nathan. The kids wrapped some books we had purchased for him. I should have gotten a picture because they looked so great. The baby was, as usual, such a daddy's girl and I just told him how much I love him and think he is the best. It's no firearm (which was my gift of choice for his b-day in the first few years of our marriage) but, I think the love was felt all around.
Happy Birthday Nathan!!!
This was Hazel's general opinion of the whole Christmas thing. She just wanted to go back to bed.
Soren got so much cool stuff. He is now well equipped to be a superhero.
And Victoria just LOVES Joe Jonas. (someone help me)
The kids really had a great time. They were very cute.
The kids made these for family home evening this week. They did a good job and we had a lot of fun.
This is Victoria's train. She thought it would be funny to have Santa making a little "yellow snow"
This is Soren's truck (he did not want to make a train). He liked the mini candy canes and put them everywhere. So Cute!!!
This is Mariah's train. She wanted it to look like candy land. I think she achieved it.
This is a picture of some of the things on the kids tree. They decorated it themselves. It is cute.
This did not look as blurry on my camera. but you can see Hazel helping decorate the tree. You can also see it is giant. Nathan is standing on a step stool on the second step and I still cant get all of the tree in the photo.
I thought there might be some interest to see what Nathan has been so hard at work doing. This is a picture of a building that they have been working on recently. It is really big. It is some kind of industrial building. The block is looking really good these days. I am really proud of him even though secretly (or not so secretly) I have been wishing we could run away and start a new life. It has been hard to watch him turn down viable job offers but, he is so determined to make it work.
Here is the scary troop. Mariah is hardly recognizable playing the part of death on this Halloween night!!
Soren was an alien warrior!!
