Happy Birthday(s)

Daniel and I both recently celebrated our birthdays. Though my birthday was spent with massive amounts of relatives then a well-behaved toddler, and Daniel's was spent with stool (and other) samples, we still managed to sneak in a little birthday fun for one another.

The day before my birthday, I came home from work to find this:

Massive amounts of balloons, all blown up by the man in the picture. It was super cute, I love balloons!!!(too bad they aren't biodegradable).

Then, the Monday after my birthday (stupid places closing on weekends), I woke up to see these on the table:

Very pretty. I got flowers or my birthday last year too, I'm starting to see a trend.

However, the best part of my birthday came a few days before my birthday even came. As a combined Christmas/Birthday present (for me, from Daniel) we stocked up on a ton of food and hygiene supplies from Costco and donated it all to St. Anne's homeless shelter. Best present ever.

Since it was Daniel's work week when his birthday came, I was determined to have something special waiting for him when he arrived home, at 7 am, on his birthday.  My decision was a penguin cake. It's his favorite animal, and I thought it would be awesome. I was on a quest to find a penguin cake pan (or at least some penguin figurines). After many stores and absolutely no luck (besides Shawn telling me he saw a penguin cake out of a 3D bear cake pan), I figured I failed my quest and retired to my sister Nicholle's house to play games. Nicholle said she had a dinosaur cake pan that might work. We scoffed at her, but it ended up being the perfect thing! Over 4 hours, 3 board games, 2 driving trips and one frosting covered Becky later, I ended up with this:

I was going to make it cooler, and add a wing, and well, feet, but Daniel was going to be home soon so I called it good. It did have a whole face before...we just didn't get a picture before it was eaten.

For Daniel's birthday we also managed to go out to eat before he had to head to work again. His choice: Golden Coral. He had been looking forward to going to a buffet for awhile now.

In case you were wondering:

The balloon aftermath.

Thanks everyone for the other birthday presents and wishes. It was a good year for us both.