Happy 40th Dan!

Dan celebrated his 40th birthday on March 11th. Unfortunately he had to work but Nicholas, Jason and I worked hard making him his favorite cake that he requests every year ....... strawberry cake from the box and fresh buttercream frosting. I must admit the cake looks a bit sad. I blame it on not having time to really pay attention while taking care of two kids :) When Dan got home, we took off for a family dinner at Friendly's! This is the first time we've ordered off the childrens menu for Nicholas. Such a waste seeing as he barely ate it but he sure had fun! He had french fries and then chicken fingers on skewers with three dipping sauces. He had a few bites of the chicken and then decided to just try to keep dipping everything in the sauces.... mess #1. Then came dessert. We ordered him a vol-cone-o. Basically a few scoops of ice cream with an upside down cone on top to look like a volcano. It's supposed to be like a make your own sundae with different toppings that you add yourself. I showed Nicholas how to drizzle the caramel sauce and then he went to town with the hot fudge! He wasn't interested in the ice cream but loved eating the hot fudge right out of the little dish. He would shake in a bunch of sprinkles... and then when he got a mouth full of them, spit them out! Needless to say the table, Nicholas and I were all wearing lots of hot fudge and sprinkles by the end of the meal! It was definitely a meal the required a large tip to be left.... not because of the service but because of the big mess we left behind!

When we got home, the boys helped Dan blow out the candles on his cake!