The Birthday Boys

August has been a busy month for our family. We celebrated Chris's birthday on the 5th and Jonathan's birthday on the 6th, 10th (his real birthday), and the 12th. We've also done our share of traveling to Columbus.

On Chris's birthday, we celebrated by first going to the Hall of Fame Parade. It started at 7:30 a.m. and we planned on arriving really early to get a curb-side seat. Chris was a trooper and was in Canton by 5:15 a.m. to reserve our seats. Some birthday! Poor guy didn't even get there early enough for first row seats. We settled for the second row. His birthday got better toward dinner time. His mom invited us over to her house to celebrate, and asked what kind of grilled meat he would like for his birthday dinner. To her surprise, he picked hot sausage sandwiches. I think she had steaks in mind. For dessert she bought him a delicious ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.

That next day we celebrated Jonathan's birthday with our families. After the party, Drew and I headed down to Columbus to spend some time with friends. Jonathan and Chris spent some quality "boy time" going to the zoo and watching movies.

We came home Tuesday evening but headed right back to Columbus on Thursday afternoon. We had planned an awesome surprise for Jonathan on his actual birthday. Who better to spend his birthday with than Brooklyn??

Beth and I had planned a surprise party for Jonathan and Brooklyn at the Dublin Chuck E. Cheese. Beth did a great job on the cake. We both had moments when we thought our secret was exposed. Brooklyn couldn't understand why half of her cake was a blue Superman theme and Jonathan didn't understand why we were buying a Barbie mylar balloon along with his Incredibles balloon. Fortunately, they didn't put two and two together (they're only four), and the looks on their faces when they saw each other were priceless. They had an incredible time. That night our friends followed us back to Alliance. We enjoyed spending time with them (I MISS YOU SO MUCH MY FRIEND) and they even stayed for Jonathan's little friend party. I am certain the party would have been much crazier without their help.

We entertained eleven little friends. Jason the Red Ranger even made an appearance (thanks Kyle)! No one was badly hurt. We tried to serve tacos, but most of the kids decided they only wanted cheese. Next year I'll only serve cake and ice cream.

Now that the birthday celebrations are over, our lives have slowly returned to a more normal state. Thanks for taking an interest!