Vai rolar a festa....: Tim's Birthday!!!

Tim had a fun birthday this year and..... THE CAKE TURNED OUT!!!!

It started with a trip to the race track and him driving a little Miata race car. For Christmas, I had given him a coupon to drive a race car on a track and he decided his birthday was the perfect time to redeem it. We all went with him and the boys enjoyed watching dad race around the track. I could tell with the more laps he completed, the more comfortable he was. At first there were no tires screeching and by the last lap, the tires squealed for "quite a bit" of time going around a certain corner.

After that, we headed to the grocery store and that's where Tim got a call from his sister, who, along with her husband, flew down from Washington for Tim's birthday and Easter. We met them at a restaurant called Hot Rods, not far from where we live. The boys LOVE it there because of all the old hot rods there. Rich, the brother-in-law, restored a mustang and gladly went on a little tour of the place given to him by our boys. All of them were really happy. Surrounding the restaurant area, is a garage bay where you can actually watch people working on their hot rods.

We headed back to our place after lunch and Tim was presented with his present from Kim (sister) and Rich: A STRAWBERRY RHUBARB PIE!!!! It's Tim's favorite pie and my two attempts have completely failed. This one was fabulous! They had made it the night before, frozen it and carried it on the plane just for Tim. It was so kind of them and so yummy as well.

Tim's other sister and her family arrived Friday night from Mexico. We decided to go to the Pima Air and Space Museum for Tim's actual birthday, which was on Saturday. Saturday morning came and most everyone got ready and headed out to see a lot of airplanes. Our brother-in-law from Mexico ended up in Thatcher and I ran errands to get the last minute things for meals and to finish Tim's cake. And as luck would have it, THE CAKE TURNED OUT!!!! Sometimes it doesn't turn out well and I usually end up feeling bad. Tim is the cake engineer and most of the time I don't think my offerings would even qualify me for "apprentice" status. I would probably end up fired.....

That night, after dinner, we did cake and presents. The boys got him a few books and crazy cycling socks. I got him some new Bose Headphones, as his other ones broke awhile ago. We sang to him, at the scrumptious homemade chocolate cake with candy bar bits in the middle and watched the boys play with the music card which played "We Will Rock You". Everyone had a really nice time.