Happy Birthday Jeff!!

Jeff turned the big 2-9

We had a week long celebration that was absolutely fabulous!

I hope he felt very loved, because he sure is!!!

The first thing we did to celebrate was my birthday present to Jeff: An entire day-long surprise date sans kiddos. (We have only left Ryder one other date so this was a pretty big deal.) A huge thanks to Shawn & Abby and Jonathan & Rachel who each watched the kiddos for half a day. It was THE.BEST. date we've had in a loooooong time and so needed!

The Sat. of Birthday Week we started out the day miniture golfing at Trafalga. Then we went to lunch, then to a movie (The Tourist), then to Jeff's favorite store where he picked out his birthday present. Afterwards we went out to dinner, grabbbed Coldstone and then headed home just in time to visit with the kiddos, put them to bed, and have a quiet evening to ourselves. It really could not have been any more perfect.

The Monday of Birthday Week we took the kids to use Jeff's free birthday meal at Fuddruckers. They LOVED celebrating daddy's birthday and having a special date. They are at such fun ages...it really isn't a hassle to bring them out to a restaraunt, they just love it and are so adorable the entire time. We had a blast with our little family of 5.

Tuesday of Birthday Week Jeff's gift from the boys arrived in the mail. They COULD.NOT.WAIT to give it to him. Tave just couldn't hold that kind of a secret in..he was trying so hard to tell Jeff what they got him while I was trying hush him up....

So he opened it a day early and they have had a blast with him:

(they truly picked it out on their own to go with their guys that Santa brought)

Wednesday of Birthday Week was Jeff's actual Birthday! So we celebrated with fun signs hung all over the house that we colored telling Jeff why we love him. That night we had birthday smoothies (since Jeff & I are cutting waaaay back on the sugar) it was a hit!

Sunday of Birthday Week we had over all the sibs & our wonderful friends for a little birthday shindig with dessert. Jeff's favorite dessert is ice cream so I got off easy by just making brownies to go with it.


Whew, it really was a wonderful, week-long celebration of my very favorite man.
I love this guy more than I ever dreamed possible.
Here's to an amazing 30th year babe!
Happy Birthday to you.

01.22.11 - 01.28.11