Birthday Pics

Birthday dinner at Hana Tokoyo...yummy!

Victorious!

Jam session

Birthday kisses from Tobey

Tobey has discovered the joys of wrapping paper

Oh yeah baby! That's my man rocking out on his fake guitar!! :)

My attempt at creativity and fun...

The Big 29

Today we have been celebrating Andrew's birthday! He's turning 29 and is a little apprehensive about it. He keeps telling me how old he feels but he spent a few hours playing his new Guitar Hero, so I don't think "old age" is a problem for him at all. :)

Anyways, I did take a few pics of the day's events, but for some reason I can't get them onto the computer to share with the few people who read our blog. I guess I will have to describe the details so that you can envision it yourself. :)

Since I had to work today (I know, lame. I couldn't get out of it.) we got up around 6:45. I knew Andrew couldn't wait to open his two presents that have been wrapped and waiting for him in the living room for like a week. But first he had to read his birthday card. This year, instead of a Hallmark-storebought card I made Andrew a candy bar poster. TEE HEE HEE!! I actually had a BLAST doing it and I think it turned out pretty well. (I'll share the candybar poster message further down so that those of you who don't want to read it don't have to.) Andrew seemed to like that so I thought it would be safe enough to proceed with my next gamble. See, here's the thing. I've known Andrew for almost 5 years and I like to think I know him better than anyone. But I never have any clue what to get him, EVER. Shopping for him is like the most exhausting experience for me. He is so detailed and so particular about the things that he likes so if he's not with me, I'm terrified I'm going to get him something he won't like. I know, it's supposed to be the thought that counts, but if you knew how he dreads his birthday, you'd be sweating getting a perfect gift too. :) With that being sad, I was nervous but interested to see his reaction to what I got him. As he opened the larger of the two first and started to smile, I relaxed a little. He realized that I had gotten the Rockband version of Guitar Hero and he seemed to be a little excited! PHEW! Andrew loves his XBOX games, but I wasn't so sure he'd like this one. I figured this would be easy enough for me to play too (I lack eye hand coordination and tend to suck really badly at that kind of thing) but he could also enjoy it on his own. Which is what he proceeded to do. The second smaller box was Guitar Hero 5 and included a second guitar. So all in all we ended up with 2 guitars, 2 games, the drums and a microphone-got the whole band! Andrew busted out the first guitar and put in the game and started learning how to strum and all that. He was already playing songs before I left for work! I think my gift was a hit! Thank goodness!!

We also went to dinner tonight at Hana Tokoyo, which is a yummy Japanese place here in Sierra Vista. Andrew's buddy Paul came with us and we had a great time! Now it's time for that Coldstone Ice Cream cake in the freezer.....

So on this day of Andrew's birth, I'd like to thank those responsible for him. Judy and Mitchial have an amazing son and my life wouldn't be the same without him. Thank you for bringing him into this world and for making him into the man that he is today, the man that I love with my whole heart. He is the funniest, quickest, kindest and most loving person I've known and I'm so glad to be his wife! Thanks for being you, babe! I love you lots and here's to many many more birthdays together!