Ethan's 11th Birthday - Aug 19th

Dude.. this is the biggest one... plus my sister gave it to me and she is bugging me to open it first.


Hugging my portable air hockey.


Video game?!! Let's hope.


Money!!! Fifteen smackers for Target.


Can't... open... fast... enough!


Who wrapped this? Dad? What is up with all of the tape?


More Tape!!!


Hmmm... let's take a peek. What do we have here?


My... Precious!! My Prrrrreecious!!


Enter the password and now it is mine to own.


Stop peaking Jake!!


Now what was the password. Oh ya! 1, 2, 3, 4... Wait... that was the one Sheldon cracked at the Electronic store.


Yes. I am cool and this is my cake.


The Chandler Smile!!


The Salmond Candle. Plus Jake is a pyro.


Dude. You spit on the cake.


This is what I bought with the Target money plus Aunt Janet's, Grandma and Grandpa.
My Precious!!


It was Ethan's Birthday. He opened his presents and got a $15.00 gift card for Super Target, a Classic iPod (120gb), air hockey and $35.00 from Aunt Janet, Grandma and Grandpa. For his dinner that night we cooked up some hamburgers, salmon burgers, garden burgers and beef hotdogs. Shay has spoiled us. We use to buy the cheep hotdogs but now we have developed a taste for the beef hotdogs. It is kind of like a grizzly when it gets lazy and gets a taste for livestock. Well maybe not the same. Anyway Shay made her awesome potato salad we also had olives, and chips. Then we had an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. It was the Girl Scout Thin Mint one. Oh boy was that good.

Can't believe our youngest is now eleven years old. Crap I'm old. Today we took Ethan and Jake to the Cheesecake Factory for their Birthday. They were cool about going together to save us money. They decided on fried macaroni and cheese for an appetizer. Jake said we should throw up a curtain around us so we could really enjoy it. He also said it should be illegal and then Ethan said, "you would go to jail then." Jake said it would be worth it. Shay said she had found a new love. Anyway Ethan ordered chicken, biscuits and gravy. He wasn't really fond of it and probably won't order it again. Shay ordered some chicken that was smashed flat, breaded in this delicate crumb crust and put on top of some lemon sauce. The fried macaroni and cheese just took a back seat. She threw her head back in joy of the taste buds like Andrew Zimmern does on Bizarre Foods when he tastes some that is out of this world. I got the California Cheesesteak sandwich. It was yummy too. We had a good time. Then came the cheesecake. Ethan got Adams peanutbutter, Shay got the 30th anniversary and I got the white chocolate with macadamia nuts. We had tons of left overs which I think I will now go eat mine.

John...