(our family picture: Austin in the background, me taking the picture, and Shane & Brynn. oh, and chloe ;)

Shane turns 34

June 1st, 2011

We actually celebrated the night before his big day with a bbq with friends. I made the teriyaki chicken that we all love. Brynn REALLY wanted to make a cake that she saw in a magazine. I had to convince in different ways why we couldn't do that. The only one that worked is when I told her that daddy wouldn't want a swimming pool cake, that's what she wants. And for his birthday he gets what he wants. Then I told Shane to confirm my excuse. Someday I might actually make cakes, but for now I do not. But I did make cookies bars, which are Shane's favorite. That with rocky road ice cream, his favorite, he really did get what he wanted.

Awhile ago Brynn was introduced to the bead things you make patterns with and then melt them together. She fell in love with them at her cousins. So we got some for our house, and who do you think loved them even more than Brynn.....Shane. I'm not sure how he feels about me sharing this, but it is appropriate. The same friends we had over for his bbq, the Peterson's, are the same friends we had over awhile ago and while we were talking Shane was putting together a Tinkerbell pattern of those things. So for a long time Brynn has been planning on getting Shane a set for his birthday. Brynn has already learned the skill of getting someone close to you a gift that you want and can use as well. She picked out the glow in the dark ones that she has wanted for some time conveniently. Too bad it wasn't a surprise. Because the morning after we bought Shane's gift Brynn had Shane guess what we got him. She replied "no, we got you some glow in the dark beads". The surprise and humor was ruined, but at the same time not, Brynn is so funny.

The beads have been all over the house, so I am hiding them until Austin gets bigger, or I am in an extra nice mood. Shane couldn't have a gift holiday without getting some tech item, so he ordered himself some 'parts' to make some type of robot/computer thing to convert his grandpa's 8mm slides into a good quality movie. I can just feel the 'tech high' he'll be getting building that thing.