Buddies

Our friends the Reedys have a daughter named Ellen. She's pretty much the cutest girl ever. Alex adores her and cries "Ennen! Ennen!" whenever they get together. Despite a two-year age difference, Ellen graciously lets Alex follow her around and copy her every move. Sometimes she even lets him play with her My Little Ponies and wear her pink shoes. So generous. :)


Thanks for letting Ellen hang out with us, Ang, and for letting Alex hang out with you guys so much. We really do love it!

If you all really loved me ...

... this would have been my birthday cake. ;) (Image courtesy of cakewrecks.blogspot.com.)

But it was a good birthday even without supercool Stargate cakes. I'm a year older, I got some awesome swag (Yes, I said "swag."), and my wife took me out to dinner at Red Robin.

So, thanks to the Reedys for my Final Fantasy game -- haven't gotten into it much, but it looks like it should be pretty fun.

... thanks to my parents for hanging out with us and giving me a cake (and a check), even though we were too sickly to be much fun.

... thanks to my other parents for forgetting my birthday entirely until the Monday after. ;) Just teasing. I know you were thinking we'd be passing by that weekend.

... and thanks to everyone else who wished me a happy birthday, thought about me at all that day, or ordered this snow for today. (Okay, I lied. The person who requested snow today should be slow-roasted over barely sizzling coals. Yeah, I'm cruel.)