Birthday Celebrations

Since this blog is kind of like our family journal I figured I'd finish posting on Derrick's birthday. Usually I'll wake up Derrick once during the night to change Zach's diaper (since he can't help with the feeding) but I decided to let him sleep the whole night before his birthday. After one of the nighttime feedings I stayed up and made a bunch of signs saying random happy birthday messages and put them up throughout the apartment. I wrapped his presents and had them waiting on the table. Because our decoration supplies are low at the moment and I wanted to put up streamers I had to get creative. The resulting streamers consisted of yarn and toilet paper (this can be seen in the picture).


Most of the day was pretty regular with Derrick at work for most of it. I did make strawberry shortcake from scratch using a Jones family special recipe :) (it's so yummy and Derrick requested it) and we went to dinner at a sushi restaurant. The sushi was really good but I wasn't too impressed with the entrees. Zach did alright for the first part of eating at the restaurant but made eating with chopsticks difficult later when he decided he had to be held. Maybe we'll get a babysitter next time we go out to dinner. Melissa and Nate came over to enjoy strawberry shortcake with us and watch the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou".


Melissa and me watching this movie was another birthday request. We both tried watching it years ago and got so bored and/or confused that we never finished it. I'd tried three times so it'd struck out in my book. Derrick's been trying to get me to watch since we were just dating. I finally caved in the spirit of birthday-ness or whatever. Nate and Derrick both loved it and Melissa and I thought parts were funny but were never sold on it. Oh well. Now I can at least catch the movie quotes when Derrick uses them "She darn R-U-N-N O-F-T!"

On another note with b-day money from our generous parents Derrick is finally back to wearing contacts (the shower drain ate one of his hard lenses months ago), was able to pay for the eye exam, got a new battery for his laptop, and will probably put the last of it to a new iPhone it looks like he'll be getting. Yea for birthday! I love you Derrick!