Happy Birthday Billy!

Billy celebrated his 28th birthday today! Today was pretty busy because Billy had his last class for the semester for his masters' program tonight and a big research paper due tonight too. Because of this, we opted to celebrate his birthday this past weekend. Billy and I have always decided that instead of presents every year for anniversaries, birthdays, Christmas, Valentine's, etc. we would save for a big present that we both wanted. Since it's been a long time since we did an actual present for either other, we decided that this year we were allowed to buy each other a present. Billy loves to go camping and hiking, but doesn't have a lot of good gear. He has been wanting a backpack for a long time. Well...my brother is big into camping too so I enlisted his help. He pretty much did the research and found what would be good. Thanks for your help Brandon! I knew that buying a present wouldn't come along too often so I tried to make the most of it. I sent Billy on a mini scavenger hunt. One of the places included the bike shop where I got Billy's mountain bike tuned up for him. The last place was our bedroom where his backpack was waiting. He was excited to get it and I was excited to see his reaction. The scavenger hunt was followed by dinner at "Famous Dave's," a BBQ place that Billy loves. We ended the night by going to see the movie, "Iron Man." We both really liked it. It was a great evening and we loved spening time together!

Happy Birthday Billy! I love you!

Yesterday a bunch of family got together to have dinner. Every month we do an "Iron Chef" where we decide on an ingredient and each make part of the meal that has that ingredient in it. For dessert my sister surprised Billy and Darrin with chessecake, one of Billy's favorites. It was delicious. They both celebrate their birthdays this week. Happy Birthday boys!