Chris' Birthday and a few other things

So I sit here at the computer this lovely Saturday morning and I honestly can't remember what happened last week.  When I do these post (and Chris normally does them on Sunday's, but I don't know what happened this time) I have to go and look at the calendar to remember what the heck we did all week long.  But my calendar is suspiciously empty for the past weeks, so I will have to wing it.

So Chris' birthday was Monday and he turned 31 (on the down hill slope)!  She had been making cheesecakes like mad the week before for various functions, and Chris wanted a Reese's Peanut Butter Cheesecake for his birthday.  She made it on Sunday night (since cheesecake's have to age - learned that in the whole process) and finished it up on Monday, right before we ate it with the missionaries.  Chris decided to play hookie from work and when Beki asked him what he REALLY wanted to do that day - he said yard work - yeah, he is getting old!  He got nice cards and some new golf balls - that maybe he might actually get to use this year.

We went to lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings and it was the prefect place for him to do his 2 favorite things at the same time - eat and watch sports.

This was the best picture of Chris with his birthday cheesecake.  It truly reflect how he feels about being 31!?

The Reese's Peanut Butter Cheesecake of Awesomeness!  

Opening cards and boxes - Owen needed to help!

Read the words - what does it say!

Oh, golf balls, lets got play golf.

As the week went on, most things blur together.  Chris is doing a lot of work in the yard and since Owen always wants to play outside - it give him something to do while Owen plays with the neighborhood kids.  Even though, they spend most of their time undoing everything Chris is doing. 

We had to cut down a tree right after we moved it and the wonderful people that did it, left it laying the back yard and never returned to finish it.  We had tried multiple times to barrow a chainsaw to cut it up, but each time we had issues.  We finally bought an electric chain saw, and the the log of shame it no more!!  We also have a lot of firewood for this coming winter.

Dancing the robot - from a Phineas and Ferb episode- here is the link on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz9b0Gk-JDI

He still loves to play in the rain with an umbrella.

Owen got his sticky apply hands on Mama's glasses and thought it was a blast.  There was A LOT of cleaning that had to take place afterwards in order for Mama to see out of them.

So Chris and Owen were coming down to pick up Mama from work and go to Chick-fil-A for dinner (school fund raiser) and Chris kept on seeing a weird flash from the back seat.  Owen had managed to get the camera out and had taken about 20 photos of everything in the car and out the window - but his favorite subject was himself!

Owen discovered the paints that we had bought for a Christmas project and he NEEDED to paint things that instant.  He painted a green train, a red frog, blue turtle, and a purple dinosaur by the time he was done.

Chris got to play in the Staff vs. Parents Basketball game at his bast school and then a student's vs. teachers basketball game at the same school the next week.  It was "fun" for him - if he wants to add an angry rant latter, I am sure that he will.

Beki has been very busy at school and trying to make her boss happy - which she is currently failing at - no matter where she is spending her time, it isn't on the thing the boss wants.  So, her Doctorate of Philosophy degree is now a Doctorate of Doing What Your Told -so much for leaning to think independently.  It doesn't help that she doesn't see the boss that often, since the boss is very busy in the administration aspect of things at the university.  Beki has a particularity painful meeting this past week, and is struggling to have a desire to do much of anything at the lab.  She was thinking independently and trying to follow where the data was leading her to get HER PhD project off the ground.  But it seems that now she will be spending all her time, NOT thinking independently and not getting HER PhD project off the ground.  It is going to be a rough next month for everyone.

On a happier note, things with the adoption are moving forward nicely.  We have our home visit on May 4 and we will see how it goes.  We are excited to finally get to the point where a birth mother could actually pick our family for her baby.  So far, it has been over a year of paperwork, more paperwork, and waiting.  It is so close now, but we are not getting too excited because it would take a long time for someone to choose us.