A New Year

Happy Birthday, Jay!  Our New Year's Baby had his 52nd birthday on the first of the year, and the kids and I had a little party for him.   Katie Mei got the privilege of putting the "trick" candles on his cake, and Merrilee (who was in on the secret) just about peed her pants cracking up as Daddy tried so hard to blow them out. 

The kids thought the relighting candles were the greatest new invention ever made for birthday trickery!  It was more fun to watch them laughing than it was to see Jay pretending to huff and puff and blow them out over and over.  All the soot left on the cake wasn't so cool, but the whole scene was pretty funny. It got quite smokey in the room with all the relighting and blowing out, so I was glad when the last candle finally was extinguished.

One of Jay's gifts was Wii Party, and the kids and I had a blast playing it later in the evening.  Jay didn't enjoy quite as much as we did, but I do believe he has enjoyed his subscription to Netflix.

Happy birthday, Jay!  We love you!