Happy Birthday Daddy

Happy Birthday to the best Hubby and Daddy!

We are so glad you are home again with us, that we are all together and we love you!  So many birthday's have been spent apart while deployed!

Avery and I made a German Chocolate cake that was ....

divine....yum...delicious....

love, love, love homemade German Chocolate cake.  This is Eric's favorite and we usually only have it on his birthday because it is just that bad for us!

We also incorporated Nicky's birthday with Eric's, because we were stateside when Nicky celebrated his birthday. We enjoyed a blizzard birthday cake from Dairy Queen on his bday, but thought it would be nice to add his name to the cake too.

Trying to get a picture of these two goofballs was nearly impossible...Our dinner table is usually like a circus with everyone talking, laughing and very chaotic.  This is in our German kitchen, and we have a corner table with benches. Everyone is compact and it gets pretty crazy where I am usually pulling my hair out.

For an example, this is the third lighting of the candle because each time I lit it, one of them blew it out. I would pick up the camera, and the candle would not be lit.  They were conspiring.

So this is as good as the pictures get, glad I atleast got this one as Eric is contemplating blowing it out a third time, see that sinister smile?

(as an update, Eric wanted me to add this other photo. The last one was a little unflattering, but only because they were goofing around being silly)  So here is an updated photo, but Nicky is not cracking up in it like he was in the other one!