BIRTHDAY WEEKEND!
The last few weeks of December are one party after another for us. As you can see we started off with the Christmas festivities, and then the day after when everyone else in the world thinks the celebrations are over we get to keep partying with Mike's birthday! He turned 27 on Saturday, and this year was extra special because Christina's sister Ginger was in town and she had her 44 birthday on Sunday!
Since we had two birthdays to celebrate we started off the day early by going to the 10:45 am Sherlock Holmes movie at the District. We TOTALLY recommend it! It was funny and suspenseful, and Robert Downey Jr. truly is amazing in it. After that we waited for about 30 minutes at Red Robin for them to sit 22 people! As you can tell from the pictures we had quite the crowd, and we've posted two because in the one the faces are more clear, except Cheri's head is cut off. Anyway, it was a crazy lunch but the food was tasty and the one waitress that they gave us actually did a great job.
After eating way too many bottomless steak fries, some friends had to get going, but a few were able to come back to our house for presents and cake. Carter helped make one of his Daddy's cake, and he was very precise where the candles should go.
We didn't have 27 candles so we made the number 27 instead, and while Mike was lighting them Carter was trying to blow them out since he knows just what to do. The video we took was adorable, but unfortunately too long to post. Needless to say Carter is already a pyro like his Dad.
Some might think that Mike's birthday might get swallowed up in the Christmas season, but his family has tried really hard to make it a special day. He got some more tasty candy to add to his collection, and also a sweet thermal shirt, a multi-plier set, and a sweet dress shirt and tie.
What his babies (C^2) got him without his knowledge was new drum heads and sticks to replace his 10+ year old heads. Christina just called up the only drum store she could find on google maps and they hooked her up. The new heads are coated so they have a different sound, but he loves them.
Here are the old verses new heads. It's not hard to see that they are pretty worn.
Of course we had to do one last video of the old heads and then the new ones. Can you tell the difference?Christina's sister and brother-in-law Julie and Nathan were able to come out and stay the day, which is HUGE! Their ranch doesn't allow them to play very often, but they worked it out and we so enjoyed their company. They drove in from Ruby Valley, NV with Ginger for the movie, then they were able to stay overnight before they had to head back home.
Carter has this things about guys, he totally will go to them over girls. He has probably only seen Nathan a couple of times when he was much younger, yet he went right to him and hung out. He definitely is a little boy.
Nathan & Carter also enjoyed rocking it out on the new drum heads.Our house was full this weekend and it was so much fun! We love having a home to host our friends and family. Carter's cousin Joey can speak quite a bit in comparison since he is the youngest of 7, and Joey LOVES to help Carter, but sometime it's a little more rough that single-child Carter is use to. This video is actually pretty sweet since it doesn't end in crying. :-)
We ended off Mike's birthday with games, relaxing, more food, visiting, and lots of laughter. It was a great day!
Ginger's birthday was a little more calm since the party happened the night before and everyone had left, but Mike was super sweet and baked her a red velvet cake from scratch! There is a crazy amount of red food coloring that goes in to this cake. We had a nice morning of watching shows, playing with Carter, and Ginger even got in another nap.
We only got to have Ginger until 3 pm before she was whisked away by another friend to spend the day, but not before she had some of her cake. Carter of course loved helping with the candle.
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