Carl's 44th

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARL!!
We spent a wonderful day preparing for Carl.  Literally from dawn till dusk.

Kaia spent days coloring and cutting out pictures from her coloring book.  She put them all up on the wall for Daddy.  I count approximately 37 that she painstakingly put up one by one with blue tack. 

We obviously made a cake too.  We were going to make one that said DADDY but the oven broke so we only had enough for DAD.  

Oven Story

Let's take a quick intermission here to tell our oven tale.  Tuesday seems to be our 'power' day so that has also become the baking day.  Starting in the morning I made 2 loaves of bread, pan of brownies, and a sheet of healthy cookies.  I was very proud of utilizing the power and accomplishing so much.  We had a second pan of brownies, second sheet of healthy cookies, baked chicken, and pappas still to go when the oven just quit on me.  SAD FACE.  So I sent Amy to our friends house to cook the chicken, cookies, and pappas.  What a lame day.  And how foolish did I feel sending my dinner off to cook in someone else's oven. Look's like we will have to forfeit our homemade bread for a while as it will probably take forever for the power AND fundi to overlap, assuming it is even fixable.  Sigh.

And Back to Birthday.  Kaia was an awesome help on the cake.  She frosted the A almost entirely by herself.  And here she is LICKING the frosting off her feet afterwards.  Amy took this shot and chose to click rather than reprimand.  EWWW!!

'We' made a picture frame for Carl for his birthday this year.  We also had a photo shoot on Sunday to get a nice shot.  Theo was a grumpy butt!!!  We took over 300 photos and I could barely find 6 that were nice.  Not only had Carl not seen the picture before, but Theo is also sporting Pray's old suit that Carl had never seen before so the gift was special on many levels.

This shot was also pretty hard to get since Theo was grumpy AGAIN.  But with a binky we were able to tame the beast and Carl is clearly pretty tired from the effort!  Kids take a lot out of you at 44!!!

Happy Birthday Dude!!
We love you!!