Happy Birthday Jeremy!

Yesterday my wonderful husband turne 26. Finally. I never like the 3 weeks where I am 2 years older than him instead of just 1. :) No, seriously I was really excited for his birthday this year, because he always does really nice things for me, and his birthday has been upstaged several times in the last few years, or at least a little lame, because his pregnant wife could hardly remember where she kept her socks, much less plan anything in advance for a birthday. And he is REALLY good at guessing secrets, so presents - even good ones - are never that cool, it seems. But this year was better, and I think he had a good birthday. :)
I had to start it Friday night, because he was going night golfing for the first time this trimester with some friends, and since one of his gifts was some night-golf balls and a bunch of glowsticks, I had to let him open them early. :) Here is a picture I made him pose for before he left, and also some pretty cool golf balls...

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Here is a picture of him Sunday (yesterday) evening at his mostly surprise birthday party (I gave him 15 minutes notice, at least) with his not-a-surprise ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. We picked it up Friday morning and as soon as he walked in the door Friday afternoon/eveing Reilly ran up to him and said "We got your cake, Daddy! We got your birthday cake! We got your cake!" I guess a new level of secret-keeping is now in order...

Jaina (and all the kids) thoroughly enjoyed the ice cream cake. She had her little tongue out trying to carefully lick her plate when it was all gone.
And here she is (with a clean shirt) hanging out with "Uncle" Chad.
Many of the kids occupying the middle of the floor. And making a LOT of noise. We almost had to shout sometimes over them - I think every single kid there (though there were only 6 of them) was joyfully (most of the time) making the loudest noises they could... :)
And Jaina, (and Reilly's hand) after the party having a blast with some balls that we picked up at Toys R Us on our Friday morning outing.