Dawn's Birthday

My 29th birthday was on Thursday (April 9th). Here's the tasty ice cream cake Alex got for me :) He insisted on cramming 29 candles onto it, despite the small top area he had to work with!

Erik was exited he got to go pick out the cake with Daddy!

Good thing we had long matches to light all those candles!




Right as I was about to blow out the candles Alex said that some of them were trick candles that won't go out. Here's a video of me trying in vain to extinguish the infernal candles (or should I say the inferno of candles). It was pretty funny how they would seem to blow out and then flicker back a few seconds later.

Before cake, we went out to eat and then went mini golfing. I'd like to say we took these pictures on our outing, but alas, that is not the case. Adam was in some kind of mood during the mini golf excursion, we had to put him on his leash (aka monkey backpack), to keep him from constantly running away. He wanted to hold all the golf balls and chase the ducks into the pond. So, we didn't really have time, or a free hand, to take any pictures. The pictures you see here are some I found online. So just pretend I took these, really :)

It was a very pretty mini golf course. Lots of cute little buildings, water features, grass, and shade. Of course it would have been a bit more relaxing without Adam crying the whole time, but oh well, we try :) We still had fun, and Erik got to try mini golf for the first time. He had a blast, and it was very funny to see him trying to hit the golf ball while holding the golf club all weird and what not.

Nap time anyone?

Quote from Alex: "So I'm playing a really old computer game from when I was a teenager. Erik is sitting next to me in this chair. After I finished a level I looked over and found him completely upright and totally asleep. I ran and grabbed the camera and took a picture as evidence before I moved him to his bed before he fell off the chair."