Happy 26th Jakey

“Today is your birthday (dun nuh nuh nuh nee nuh) it’s my birthday too, YEAH!” Ok well it’s really not, but that’s the way the song goes. :) So Tuesday, September 28th was Jake’s 26th birthday, but we both work and go to school like all day (i start with a 7:30 french class and we both don’t get off work til 11pm) so we did his birthday on monday instead after family home evening. the candles are two different ones because i couldn’t find 2 of the same type. besides, we’re weird so i figured it would work well.

So his birthday cake had frosting that was really just whipped cream (he doesn’t like frosting anyway so it’s cool.) and the cake was a white cake that we baked and then poked holes in with his chopsticks and then we poured strawberry-banana jell-o in it and let it set. i though he was nuts, but apparently in Idaho (and probably utah) it’s a pretty common thing. well, i’ll give them this one, it was pretty good. :)

 

   Any way, so here jake is blowing out his candles. When i told him I was going to get  26 candles he really thought i meant to buy twenty-six candles. i think not; first of all, i would have needed a blow torch to light the cake and second of all we’d have needed to keep a fire extinguisher near by just in case one of our heads caught fire. :) i’m only teasing of course, i know that when i’m 26, i’ll received the same brutality… hahaha.

                                

Yummy! It turned out pleasantly pink and was rather delicious. we still have about half of it in the fridge and it’s only wednesday…i wonder if that means we eat cake rather quickly or quite slowly. hmmm. :)

 

Well, jake liked my card to say the least. :) i’m always happy to see that i can pick an envelope that encourages such happy and kinda of manic stares in people. it always makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, it really does.

And here he is singing along with the card, i guess it got him “all shook up mmm hmmm mmm yay-yeah” He has a healthy appreciation for Elvis.

 

Here we have him opening his first present. He told me afterwards that as he was opening it he saw some of the back and thought (in horror) that i’d bought him one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (i say “in horror” because he already owns all of them) however, he was pleased to discover (once he looked at the front) that it was not a pirate move, but was-in fact-

THE PRINCE OF PERSIA

He was pretty excited as you can tell by his “crazy-person” stare

 

So excited, that he sunk his teeth (literally) into unwrapping his second and final (so he thought) present! once he had successfully removed the piece of string that i had, with painstaking effort, tied on, he choose to display his dominance over the piece of string by wearing it around his forehead as a warning to all other string that he is the master of string and none of it may hold the contents of its package without fear of being ripped to shreds by Jake the String-Slayer. :)

So, although i’m sure you were expecting a fearsome picture, you must remember that the ceremony involving tying the slain string around the forehead is an incredibly sacred ritual only performed by those who wear glasses and have very curly hair. 

 

 

 

And Here he unveiled his last present. and he was satisfied with the result of his labors. the fruit he had reaped was worthy of the effort he had sown. that is to say that…

 

 

 

He got what he asked for; received his just rewards; felt the consequences of his actions take place…

He got a Star Wars Lego Set :)

 

All in all, I’d say he had a pretty Happy Birthday….especially since i surprised him with some Lego people on Tuesday morning. i felt that he had to get at least one birthday present on his actual birthday. :)