A LITTLE CELEBRATING

Well, there are a few things you should know before reading this post.
-First being that Justin is really great at giving surprises, and I am not so good at it. But this time I planned one, and I was pretty proud of the execution.
-Next, we went out tonight with some friends to celebrate the end of the semester, and I turned our dinner in to a little pre-birthday party for Just.
-Third, the yule log cake was a generous, and creative donation from Helene. May be a new birthday cake tradition... Might not.
-And last thing to note: there were more people with us tonight, but really there are just a lot of pictures of Justin here. He was kind of my focus. Just know there were others, and we appreciated and enjoyed their company.

Happy Birthday 2011

Justin turns 29

(Just a funny side story... Scotlin was obviously traumatized by the time he burnt his finger on the flame of his own birthday candle. ;( I'll never live it down. Poor kid couldn't handle the sight of the flaming yule log. )

One of the nice things about having a daughter is you will always have someone right by your side to open presents with. Mi's is the perfect present helper. She'll be right there when you need her. :)

Little background needed:
So, Justin went to a guys night a few weeks ago, and came home telling me all about an X-Box one of the other guys had that he had rigged up to do all sorts of other cool types of things that guys like... (see how clueless I am to what guys like.. I can't even tell you how or what it did or was supposed to do... But, all I know is, we have a friend here, who can basically take any kind of tech equipment and rig it up until it is a guys dream come true.
Anyway, long story short is, I told Justin it was great if he wanted to do that on a guys night, but that we were not going to have one. Well, little did he know, I had the help of not one, but two other guys, and both their wives to get him the X-Box, and get it rigged up just right. Things only a guy can truly appreciate!! ;)
All I had to do was throw it is a box from Deseret Book, and he thought he was getting a new pair of scriptures. ;)

Love the look of surprise on his face! He was totally thrown off.

And that is one happy smile...

Happy Husband. Happy Wife. Great Night. 

Glad we are getting our celebrations off to a good start.
I absolutely LOVE having him home... it is definitely worth celebrating!! :)